Senior Recruiter — Full-Cycle, Defense BD & Programs

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Recruiter for Business Development to join our growing Talent Acquisition team. You will own full-cycle recruitment across BD, Government Relations, and Program Management while providing flex support to adjacent Growth searches as needed.

You will partner with hiring managers, build candidate relationships, and calibrate strategies across diverse sub-functions, with a focus on speed, quality, and market insight.

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of full-cycle recruiting in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Direct experience recruiting within business development, capture, proposals, government relations, program management, or adjacent growth functions — ideally in defense, aerospace, or national security.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent searches across different functional areas while maintaining quality and candidate experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to advise, calibrate, and build trust with hiring managers across levels.
• Data-informed mindset: you track pipeline metrics, use conversion data to diagnose search health, and present market intelligence to influence decisions.
• Clear, effective communication with candidates and hiring teams, with the ability to build rapport and assess fit across a range of BD disciplines.
• Ability to move fast and prioritize without letting quality or candidate experience slip.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruiting across Business Development, Government Relations, and Program Management, with flex capacity into adjacent Growth hiring during peak periods
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies tailored to each sub-function, recognizing that a capture manager pipeline rooted in the DoD acquisition community looks very different from a government relations pipeline built around former Hill staff and agency liaisons
• Conduct screens that assess functional depth, customer knowledge, and organizational fit, with an evaluation approach calibrated to each search — a capture lead requires different proof points than a proposal manager or a BD representative
• Manage the interview process from intake through close: calibrate with hiring managers, prepare interview panels, facilitate debriefs, and drive offers to signature
• Partner with BD and Growth leaders to understand current and upcoming hiring needs, team composition, and the specific profiles that will succeed in each sub-function and division
• Advise hiring managers on market conditions, compensation benchmarks, and candidate availability across BD disciplines
• Provide transparent pipeline updates and market intelligence, especially when conditions require recalibrating timelines, expectations, or clearance assumptions
• Influence role design and leveling by bringing external market perspective to internal conversations about scope, customer alignment, and requirements
• Own the candidate experience from first outreach through close, making sure every interaction reflects the credibility and mission-seriousness that senior BD candidates expect
• Maintain data integrity in the ATS/CRM to support accurate reporting, capacity planning, and pipeline analytics
• Identify and implement improvements to recruiting processes, tools, and interview practices within your portfolio
• Collaborate with the broader Talent Acquisition team to share market intelligence, sourcing strategies, and best practices across the Growth and BD recruiting functions

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data-driven mindset

Clear communication

Prioritization under pressure

Fast learner

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Recruiter for Business Development to join our growing Talent Acquisition team. You will own full-cycle recruitment across BD, Government Relations, and Program Management while providing flex support to adjacent Growth searches as needed.

You will partner with hiring managers, build candidate relationships, and calibrate strategies across diverse sub-functions, with a focus on speed, quality, and market insight.