Senior Talent Acquisition Lead — Aerospace

Poseidon Aerospace; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful early-stage equity

Relocation support

Job summary

Poseidon Aerospace is seeking its first dedicated Talent Acquisition hire to own full-cycle recruiting for engineers, pilots, and operators. You will design sourcing processes, stand up TA infrastructure, and close top technical talent in a fast-growing aerospace startup. This onsite role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You will partner with the Head of People to shape headcount strategy as the company scales and travel may be required for events and recruiting efforts.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a meaningful portion of that in a startup aerospace, defense, aviation, or an adjacent deep-tech environment.
• Demonstrated experience taking the TA function from 0→1
• Experience recruiting for highly technical roles: propulsion, avionics, controls, flight test, or related engineering disciplines
• Hands-on experience owning or significantly configuring an ATS, you have set up workflows, not just used them
• Strong sourcing skills across both active and passive candidate channels
• Excellent written and verbal communication; capable of representing the company to senior technical candidates and executives alike
• Comfort operating independently in an ambiguous, fast-moving startup environment

Responsibilities

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Own the hiring process from sourcing all the way to the hand-off for onboarding. Partner with hiring managers, build proactive pipelines for hard-to-fill roles, and serve as the primary point of contact for candidates
• Infrastructure & Process: Administer our TA tools, design and document interview processes and evaluation rubrics, build and maintain recruiting metrics, develop workflows and candidate communication standards
• Candidate Experience: Greet and host candidates onsite, create a candidate journey that is fast, respectful, and genuinely differentiating, even for candidates we don't advance
• Employer Brand & Sourcing: develop and execute sourcing strategies across LI Recruiter, aerospace-specific talent networks, universities, military transition pipelines, and industry events. Draft compelling job posts and social content that communicates Poseidon's mission and differentiation, and represent Poseidon at events as needed (may require travel)
• Strategic Partnership: Serve as the primary TA partner to the Head of People and act as a strategic advisor to hiring managers, contribute to workforce planning discussions and help prioritize hiring sequencing as the company grows

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing

ATS administration

Stakeholder management

Technical recruiting

Communication

Tools

ATS

Job description

Poseidon Aerospace is seeking its first dedicated Talent Acquisition hire to own full-cycle recruiting for engineers, pilots, and operators. You will design sourcing processes, stand up TA infrastructure, and close top technical talent in a fast-growing aerospace startup. This onsite role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You will partner with the Head of People to shape headcount strategy as the company scales and travel may be required for events and recruiting efforts.