CW Production Recruiting Lead

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As a Production Recruiting Lead for Connected Warfare (CW) Division, you are the single-threaded owner of all production/manufacturing/supply chain hiring outcomes.

Responsibilities

Divisional Accountability & Strategic Ownership

• Own end-to-end production hiring outcomes for CW, including headcount planning, demand forecasting, requisition prioritization, and delivery against hiring targets.
• Act as the primary strategic talent partner to your Head of TA and senior divisional leaders, translating business objectives into executable hiring strategies.
• Deliver regular reporting on hiring health, pipeline velocity, capacity constraints, and risk mitigation to divisional leadership,providing full transparency and "positive control" over talent delivery.
• Define and manage SLAs, hiring goals, and success metrics for your Division's production portfolio in partnership with business stakeholders.

Hands-On Recruiting Execution (Player)

• Personally own and execute full-cycle recruiting on priority roles as needed for CW's most critical, complex, or strategic production roles, including:
• Leadership and senior technical hires (Head of, Director, VPs)
• Single-point-of-failure roles or positions with unique market challenges
• First-of-their-kind roles requiring deep business context and creative sourcing strategies
• Set the standard for recruiting excellence within your Division,demonstrating best-in-class sourcing, candidate engagement, assessment rigor, and offer negotiation.
• Maintain credibility and market intelligence by staying hands-on in the craft of recruiting, ensuring you deeply understand talent availability, compensation trends, and competitive dynamics.

Program Management & Priority Direction (Coach)

• Align the day-to-day priorities of the centralized production recruiting team aligned to your Division, ensuring their focus is calibrated to the highest-impact hiring needs.
• Provide coaching, real-time feedback, and quality assurance to centralized recruiters working on your Division's roles (without formal people management responsibility).
• Lead the operational rhythm for your Division's production hiring portfolio, including intake meetings, pipeline reviews, and cross-functional coordination with hiring managers, HR, and Finance.
• Act as the single escalation point for hiring blockers, process breakdowns, or stakeholder misalignment within your Division.
• Design and lead surge hiring initiatives, high-volume campaigns, or other complex hiring programs specific to your Division's business needs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence

• Partner closely with The Lead Coordinator, for Overall Divisional Production TA to ensure process consistency, share best practices, and contribute to cross-divisional reporting and strategic planning.
• Provide structured input into performance evaluations and development plans for centralized recruiters supporting your Division, ensuring their contributions to divisional outcomes are recognized.
• Build strong relationships with Divisional BizOps, Finance, and Workforce Planning teams to align on headcount allocation, budget, and hiring sequencing.
• Influence hiring manager behavior and decision-making, serving as a trusted advisor on candidate quality, market realities, and talent strategy trade-offs.

Requirements

• 8+ years of talent acquisition experience, including significant recent experience as a full-cycle production or technical recruiter in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Proven ability to operate independently with minimal oversight, managing complex hiring portfolios, competing priorities, and ambiguous situations with sound judgment.
• Strong business partnership skills: experience influencing and advising Director-level and above stakeholders, translating business needs into hiring strategies, and managing escalations diplomatically.
• Demonstrated program management capability,experience leading hiring initiatives beyond individual requisitions, coordinating cross-functional teams, and delivering results through others.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills: ability to use data to drive decisions, tell a compelling story, and present hiring health narratives to senior leadership.
• Comfortable working in a matrixed environment, providing direction and feedback to peers without formal management authority.