Head of Recruiting

Endurance Energy; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global Fieldwork

Hands-on Experience

Cutting-edge Development

Impactful Work

Competitive Compensation

Benefits: Vision, Dental, Health insurance

Dive Certification

Job summary

Endurance Energy in Seattle is seeking a Recruiting Leader to operationalize the recruiting function as the company scales from 20 to 100 people. You'll manage recruiting, onboarding, performance, and compensation across various roles.

The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in recruiting leadership, particularly in hardware or tech companies, and will also influence company culture and internal communications. Benefits include travel opportunities and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a recruiting leadership role at a hardware, aerospace, or deep tech company.
• Direct experience scaling a company from 20 to 100+ employees.
• Ability to recruit and close world-class hardware engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire recruiting function: recruiting, onboarding, and performance.
• Scale hiring process to support 20+ hires this year.
• Build and manage the recruiting team, including external firms.

Skills

Recruiting leadership

Scaling company growth

Recruiting hardware engineers

Culture building

Job description

About Endurance

Endurance is building the world's first modular subsea geothermal power plants, converting vast thermal resources under the ocean into gigawatts of baseload power. Backed by First Round Capital and Point72 Ventures, our founding team includes veterans from SpaceX, Helion, and Robinhood. We have completed multiple deep ocean deployments and are launching our generation pilot this year. By leveraging manufacturing scale, efficient drilling, and latent cooling on the seafloor, we are pioneering a new category of energy that outperforms traditional sources on both environmental impact and cost.

What You'll Be Doing

This is not a "fix recruiting" role. We have a high functioning interview process, a team of leaders who show up for hiring, and an ATS that works. What we need is someone who can take all of that and make it scale. You will own the recruiting function and have a seat at the table for, culture, compensation, and organizational design as we grow from 20 to 100 people across multiple geographies. Eventually you will hire and manage a team, but the first season of work will be as an IC. You will also have a seat at the table for how we build our internal culture.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire recruiting function: recruiting, onboarding, performance, compensation
• Scale our hiring process to support 20+ hires this year across hardware engineering, business, and manufacturing roles
• Build and manage the recruiting team, including external firms and an internal team
• Lead the people strategy for new site buildouts
• Partner with the executive team on culture, employer brand, and internal communications
• Own all recruiting operations infrastructure and vendor relationships

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a recruiting leadership role, ideally at a hardware, aerospace, or deep tech company
• Direct experience scaling a company through a startup growth phase (20 to 100+)
• Demonstrated ability to recruit and close world class hardware engineers
• Comfort operating across both corporate and manufacturing hiring environments
• You have strong opinions about what great culture looks like and how to build it intentionally

Benefits & Perks

• Global Fieldwork: Travel to fascinating deployment sites along oceanic ridges in locations like the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, and the Azores
• Hands-on Experience: Participate in sea trials and deployment operations in partnership with leading oceanographic institutions
• Cutting-edge Development: Work with technology that spans high-power electronics, marine systems, and clean energy
• Impactful Work: Help solve one of the world's most pressing challenges
• Competitive Compensation: Comprehensive salary and equity packages
• Benefits: Vision, Dental, Health insurance coverage
• Dive Certification: Company-sponsored recreational dive certification