Recruiter + HR Manager

Reflect Orbital; Hawthorne (NJ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Reflect Orbital is an innovative aerospace startup seeking a talented Recruiter + HR Manager. This role requires an organized, people-oriented individual focused on recruiting top-tier talent while also overseeing HR functions. With a mission to build a world-class team, you will engage with exceptional candidates and contribute to a dynamic work environment. Reflect Orbital offers competitive compensation and benefits to support its employees.

Benefits

Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage

Access to HSA, FSA, 401K, and commuter benefits

Unlimited paid time off, minimum two-weeks mandatory use

Healthy lunches provided daily

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in recruiting or HR.
• Strong sourcing skills and ability to engage candidates.
• Exceptional organizational skills and communication.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting across engineering, operations, and business roles.
• Coordinate interviews and manage the ATS.
• Onboard new hires and maintain HR documentation.

Skills

Sourcing

Communication

Organization

Reliability

Flexibility

Job description

Reflect Orbital is building satellites that reflect sunlight back to Earth—enabling lighting and energy breakthroughs unimaginable from the ground. We’re a venture-backed aerospace startup with a multidisciplinary team spanning space systems, energy infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing.

We’re looking for a sharp, organized, and people-oriented Recruiter + HR Manager to own the hiring funnel and help us scale. Your primary focus will be recruiting top-tier technical and operational talent—but you’ll also flex into HR responsibilities as we grow.

This is a unique opportunity for someone who loves talking to exceptional people, thrives in high-trust environments, and wants to help build a world-class team from the ground up.

What You’ll Do

• Recruiting (Primary Role):

  • Own end-to-end recruiting across engineering, operations, and business roles

  • Source high-caliber candidates through outbound search, referrals, and platforms like LinkedIn and Ashby

  • Manage our ATS (Ashby) and ensure an organized, high-signal hiring process

  • Coordinate interviews, prepare hiring teams, and ensure timely feedback loops

  • Help craft compelling job descriptions and messaging that reflects our mission and tone

  • Track pipeline metrics, time-to-hire, and pass-through rates to optimize for speed and quality

• HR & People Ops (Secondary Focus):

  • Onboard new hires and ensure a seamless Day 1 experience

  • Maintain employee records, handbooks, and HR documentation

  • Support internal comms, performance reviews, and occasional culture-building projects

  • Liaise with legal/payroll partners as needed to ensure compliance

Who You Are

• 2–5 years of experience in recruiting or HR, ideally in a startup or fast-paced environment

• Strong sourcing chops; you know how to find, message, and engage top talent

• Exceptionally organized and reliable; you follow up, follow through, and keep things moving

• Great written and verbal communicator; you know how to build trust with candidates and teammates

• Familiarity with California employment law and HR best practices

• Comfortable flexing between execution and strategy, recruiting and HR

• Excited by ambitious goals and gritty early-stage work

Bonus Points

• Experience hiring hardware engineers or aerospace talent

• Familiarity with export control

• You’ve managed or helped build internal HR systems from scratch

Even if you don't meet 100% of the above qualifications, we are likely still interested in hearing from you. Hiring exceptional individuals is our #1 priority, and we believe that exceptional people often have highly unusual backgrounds.

We are also interested in carving out unique roles for unconventional people that we are excited about working with.

Benefits

Reflect Orbital’s success will hinge on our team, which is why our compensation and benefits plan is designed to reward our employees and support their families as generously as we’re able.

• Broad choice of medical/dental/vision coverage, Reflect covers 100% of each base-policy

• Access to HSA, FSA, 401K, and commuter benefits

• Unlimited paid time off, two-weeks per year minimum mandatory use

• Healthy lunches provided daily

Equal Opportunity

Reflect Orbital is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Reflect Orbital is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

More about Reflect Orbital:

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