Senior Business Recruiter

Description

The company builds commercial infrastructure in low Earth orbit, including in-orbit pharmaceutical processing and reentry capsules. It was founded in January 2021 and designs, builds and operates its own vehicles, payloads, heat shields and satellite buses in-house.

Leadership and staff include people from SpaceX, Blue Origin, large pharmaceutical companies and Silicon Valley. Headquarters are in El Segundo, California, with a production facility, and there are further offices in Washington, DC and Huntsville, AL.

This is a senior recruiting role covering business functions such as operations, supply chain, business development, finance, legal, people and marketing. The job is about acting quickly: building a pipeline, presenting the company to the market, hiring strong senior talent and supporting production growth.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full hiring process for each role, from intake through to a signed offer.
• Find and approach candidates in the market, including those not actively looking, and build lasting relationships with them.
• Track pipeline metrics to set priorities and keep hiring managers' expectations realistic.
• Run intake sessions and work with hiring managers as a close team, advising on market conditions and compensation and challenging assumptions where useful.
• Present the company's story to candidates, guide them through their decisions and close offers.
• Give every candidate a considerate, personal experience, attending to details while keeping the overall goal in view.
• Mentor other recruiters, improve processes and promote inclusive interview practices that support diverse teams.
• Success means delivering quality hires on tight timelines, earning hiring managers' trust through strategic advice, and building repeatable processes and a pipeline that grows with the team, while keeping a high bar in a competitive market.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of full-cycle recruiting, with a record of hands-on sourcing and fast hiring in competitive markets.
• Self-driven, taking full ownership of results and comfortable pushing searches forward when the path is unclear.
• Proven success sourcing and closing senior and leadership candidates in competitive markets.
• Clear, proactive communication with candidates and hiring managers, keeping stakeholders informed.
• Solid grasp of business functions to judge candidate depth and place each role in context.
• Preferred: in-house recruiting at a hardware or deep tech startup, from Series A through growth stage.
• Preferred: recruiting across several business functions, such as finance, operations, HR or marketing.
• Preferred: experience with Greenhouse ATS.
• Preferred: exposure to ITAR or export-controlled hiring environments.
• Preferred: an active network in the Los Angeles aerospace corridor.
• Preferred: familiarity with diversity sourcing strategies and tools.

Conditions

Base salary of $125,000 to $169,000 a year.

The range covers the levels at which the company may hire; final pay depends on experience, skills, education and internal equity.

Onsite in El Segundo, CA.

Hiring is limited to U.S. persons: U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents, or protected individuals under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), meaning people admitted as refugees or granted asylum.

Employees must be lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.

Benefits

• Eligible for incentives in the form of stock options and/or long-term cash awards.