Senior Recruiter: Recruiting for Recruiting

Slope; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, Seattle, Boston or DC is seeking a Senior Recruiter to own the Recruiting for Recruiting function. You’ll evaluate recruiters daily, shaping sourcing strategy, candidate experience, and closing outcomes to set the quality bar for the organization.

You’ll work in a matrixed structure reporting to a Functional Manager and partnering with TA leadership and hiring managers. The role emphasizes mentorship, data-driven hiring, and driving measurable improvements in

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Direct experience recruiting recruiters, recruiting coordinators, sourcing specialists, or other TA/People Operations roles.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, senior-level searches and calibrate candidates against a competency-based framework.
• Track record of mentoring junior team members on recruiting craft, interview technique, and stakeholder management.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to advise, push back on, and build trust with hiring managers across levels.
• A data-informed mindset: you track pipeline metrics, use conversion data to diagnose search health, and can present market intelligence to influence decisions.
• Ability to operate with a high sense of urgency and bias for action while maintaining quality and candidate experience.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build rapport with candidates who are themselves expert communicators and relationship-builders.
• US Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

Responsibilities

• Own the full recruiting lifecycle (with sourcing support) for Recruiter and Recruiting Coordinator roles across divisions — from sourcing and screening through offer negotiation and close — ensuring a world-class candidate experience that reflects the standard we expect our hires to deliver.
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies to build robust pipelines for TA talent, recognizing that the best recruiters are rarely active applicants and require differentiated outreach, not just InMail volume.
• Manage the interview process end-to-end: conduct in-depth screens that assess recruiting craft (not just career narrative), prepare candidates and interviewers, and facilitate calibrated debriefs that separate strong operators from strong interviewees.
• Assess candidates against our competency framework — evaluating not just what they’ve done, but how they think about sourcing, stakeholder management, data, and candidate experience at a level that matches or exceeds our bar.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Recruiting recruiters

Competency-based assessment

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Data-driven

Urgency and action

Communication

Defense recruiting

Multi-specialty recruiting

Matrixed environment

Process improvement

Competency models

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa, Seattle, Boston or DC is seeking a Senior Recruiter to own the Recruiting for Recruiting function. You’ll evaluate recruiters daily, shaping sourcing strategy, candidate experience, and closing outcomes to set the quality bar for the organization.

You’ll work in a matrixed structure reporting to a Functional Manager and partnering with TA leadership and hiring managers. The role emphasizes mentorship, data-driven hiring, and driving measurable improvements in