Senior Technical Recruiter

As a key member of Anduril's Space Software recruiting team, you will be responsible for the company's talent management as we continue to rapidly grow. Your work will be hands-on and involve collaborating with leaders and individual contributors to define the hiring needs of the company.

To achieve this, you will be given the autonomy and tools to execute on our strategy to build and develop Anduril's world-class team. We are looking for someone who can handle high levels of ownership while tackling every aspect of recruiting and is excited to be part of a small team where no task is too big or too small.

This role will focus on software recruiting for our Space Division. The ideal candidate is someone with startup, tech, and relevant space domain experience.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and mentoring recruitment efforts for software engineering teams, sharing best practices and driving consistency across technical hiring
• Establishing deep trust and partnership with business leaders to help influence talent strategy while executing on hiring deliverables
• Moving fast, with a process for consistently sourcing, tracking, and maintaining a high volume of candidates while maintaining open lines of communication with stakeholders
• Building trust through consistency and a strong operating rhythm in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders to help scale and manage company growth
• Embedding yourself into the business and into your teams to understand the product positioning and market fit, technical roadmap, and culture of the team
• Developing a strong understanding of the mission while learning how to effectively pitch the team and opportunity, ultimately closing exceptional technical talent for the organization
• Tracking and analyzing pipeline and performance data to gain insights into areas of opportunity and translate that into a data-driven narrative that enables increased momentum
• Building recruiting strategies that contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing best practices around referrals and process improvements where needed
• Acting as a subject matter expert in prospecting techniques and tools used for information retrieval, data extraction, web-scraping, continuous process improvement, process automation, and candidate management
• Conducting interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios
• Engaging passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Boolean strings, referral, and SOBO campaigns
• Providing a consistent and positive candidate experience throughout the entire recruiting process with proactive communication and engagement

Requirements include:

• 8+ years of experience recruiting and sourcing for technical roles and closing top-tier engineering talent (startup/software experience preferred)
• 8+ years of leading recruitment for software engineering teams, including full-stack, backend, frontend, mobile, or infrastructure engineers
• 8+ years of client interaction experience, including working with hiring managers and directors, taking new requirements, reviewing profiles, and updating pipeline progress
• Strong experience hiring software engineers within the space domain
• Experience acting in a consultative manner where your guidance has led to improved outcomes, and a positive candidate experience, while earning the respect of your peers and clients
• Strong understanding of the technical skills and experience required for software engineering positions within the business, including modern programming languages, frameworks, and software development methodologies
• Clear and effective communication with candidates to understand motivation, drivers, and fit within the organization
• Experience managing various funnels of candidates and keeping track of their progress throughout the recruitment process
• Experience with applicant tracking and HRIS systems
• Experience with software interview techniques and applicant screening methods
• Familiarity with a wide variety of sourcing avenues

Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience in startup, tech, and relevant domain experience
• Self-sufficiency and ability to work with little direct supervision
• Resilience and creativity, with flexibility to face routine obstacles, troubleshoot, and create solutions on the fly
• Attention and communication, with direct and succinct communication, sharing information in a timely and efficient manner, improving collaboration and productivity, while practicing active listening and engagement with intent
• Ownership, with accountability for your universe and in tune with the business, taking full responsibility for helping Anduril achieve its mission
• Low ego, high curiosity, with a value on learning over being right, embracing delivery and receiving candid feedback, and seeing every setback as an opportunity to iterate and improve