Talent Acquisition Leader

Arc; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Parental leave

Generous PTO

Income protection

Retirement savings

Water fund

Professional development

Safety Support

Captain training

Office lunches

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Arc is aging its mission to electrify the marine industry and is seeking a Talent Acquisition Leader to build and lead a recruiting engine that scales with production and defense programs. This on-site role at our Los Angeles headquarters will shape hiring across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and commercial teams.

You will recruit for critical senior roles, establish scalable processes, and partner with leaders to design roles, forecast headcount, and manage compensation discussions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience; includes building and leading a team
• Experience hiring across technical and non-technical roles (engineering, manufacturing, skilled trades)
• Background in high-growth environments such as startup, hardware, automotive, aerospace, or energy
• Proficiency with an ATS (Greenhouse preferred) and using data to forecast, prioritize, and report
• Ability to influence senior leaders, push back with data, and hold hiring managers accountable
• Ability to build processes from scratch and personally close top candidates
• Track record of scaling AI across recruiting teams to improve throughput, quality, and creativity, responsibly

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of recruiters and coordinators; set goals and improve candidate experience
• Own Arc's hiring plan end-to-end; partner with senior leadership on headcount timelines
• Personally recruit for critical senior roles across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and commercial
• Build scalable recruiting processes from intake to offer
• Advise hiring managers on role design, market realities, compensation, and selection decisions
• Run Greenhouse and recruiting tech; keep data clean; leverage AI to do more with a small team
• Share pipeline health, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, and source quality with leaders
• Source hard-to-fill technical and skilled trades talent including automotive, aerospace, energy, and marine sectors
• Tell Arc's story through job descriptions, outreach, events, university and veteran partnerships, and referrals
• Develop an inclusive hiring process so people from all backgrounds see themselves at Arc and belong
• Ensure hiring practices meet employment law and ITAR/export control as Arc expands into defense work
• Manage agency relationships and recruiting budget with a bias toward in-house capability

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Leadership

Data-driven hiring

Tools

Greenhouse ATS

Recruiting data analytics

Job description

What we’re building

The marine industry supports recreation, global commerce, and national defense. And yet it runs on technology that hasn't meaningfully changed in fifty years. Until now. Arc is on a mission to electrify the marine industry. We're rethinking powertrains, software, and vessel designs from first principles. And we're already executing. We started with consumers to develop and harden our core technology. We’re now scaling production of our flagship model with new models and sectors on the horizon. Now we’re extending our platform to commercial applications, starting with tugs, ferries, and defense, with years worth of signed contracts and a pipeline that spans every vessel type on the water.

The technology is proven, the momentum is building, and the opportunity is enormous. The marine industry is going electric and Arc is building the platform that powers it

Who we’re looking for

As Arc's Talent Acquisition Leader, you will own how Arc hires as we scale from flagship production into commercial and defense programs. That means building and leading the recruiting team, running a hiring engine that moves fast without cutting corners, and partnering with leaders across engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams to land the people who will electrify the water.

We're looking for someone fired up by the mission and ready to build. You'll thrive here if you move fast, take ownership, and care about the details.

This is a full-time, on-site role at our Los Angeles headquarters.

What You'll Do

• Leading, coaching, and growing a team of recruiters and coordinators, setting clear goals and raising the bar on candidate experience
• Owning Arc's hiring plan end to end, partnering with senior leadership on headcount timelines and prioritization, making smart tradeoffs when plans change
• Personally recruiting for our most critical and senior roles across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and commercial, finding the people who'll help us electrify an entire industry
• Building scalable recruiting processes, from intake and structured interviews to offer approvals and close
• Partnering with hiring managers as a trusted advisor on role design, market realities, compensation, and selection decisions
• Running Greenhouse and our recruiting tech stack, keeping the data clean, and using AI to help a small team do more, better, and more creatively
• Sharing pipeline health, time to fill, offer acceptance, and source quality openly, so leaders have the context to make smart decisions
• Getting creative about finding hard-to-fill technical and skilled trades talent, from passive candidates to people in automotive, aerospace, energy, and traditional marine who are ready for something new
• Telling Arc's story through job descriptions, outreach, events, university and veteran partnerships, and referral programs, making people want to be part of what we're building
• Building a hiring process where people from all backgrounds see themselves at Arc and feel like they'd belong here
• Ensuring hiring practices meet employment law and export control (ITAR) requirements as Arc expands into defense work
• Managing agency relationships and the recruiting budget with a bias toward building in-house capability

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 2 years leading recruiters or a talent acquisition function
• Experience hiring across technical and non-technical roles, including engineering and manufacturing or skilled trades
• Background in a high-growth environment such as a startup, hardware, automotive, aerospace, or energy company
• Proficiency with an ATS (Greenhouse preferred) and using recruiting data to forecast, prioritize, and report
• Ability to influence senior leaders, push back with data, and keep hiring managers accountable
• Ability to build processes from scratch and still personally close top candidates
• Track record of scaling AI across a recruiting team to improve throughput, quality, and creativity, responsibly

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience recruiting in marine, EV, defense, or other regulated hardware industries
• Proficiency with ITAR or export-control screening and hiring for cleared or defense‑adjacent roles
• Background scaling a recruiting team through a hypergrowth stage (for example, 100 to 500+ employees)
• Experience building university, apprenticeship, or veteran hiring programs
• Comfortable pushing a fast but sustainable pace
• Enthusiasm for boating and clean energy

At Arc, we encourage diversity and consider all qualified applicants equally for employment, regardless of background, identity, or status. You’re always welcome to reach out even if you don’t meet many of these qualifications. Passion and aptitude make up for a lot.

What we offer

The base salary for this role is M3: $190,000; M4: $220,000 annually.

Highly competitive equity grants are included with full time offers. As well as semi-annual bonuses tied to your impact, not just your tenure.

Additionally, Arc offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

• Healthcare benefits — 99% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision
• Parental leave — 14 weeks fully paid for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Generous time off— Highly competitive PTO with an opportunity to earn more time with tenure
• Income protection— Life and disability insurance for all employees
• Retirement savings—Traditional and Roth 401(k) access
• Water fund— $500 for you to spend each year to get out on the water, however you choose
• Professional development — $500 annual reimbursement for professional development and a monthly AI stipend
• Safety Support—Annual reimbursement for PPE, ergonomic equipment and anything that ensures we keep our crew safe
• Captain training— Training and access to take Arc boats out with friends and family
• Office perks— Daily lunches, snacks, and good coffee while onsite
• Relocation assistance— Available depending on role eligibility.

Our values

We move with urgency and build with care. We value these five things above all else:

• Ownership over both your work and the company’s success
• Empathy for colleagues and for customers
• Humility in problem solving and collaboration
• Pragmatism for navigating ambiguity quickly and sensibly
• Inclusion of different backgrounds, opinions, cultures, and perspectives.

We want people who share and embody these values. It is vital that our values align - we’d be happy to elaborate on any or all of these during the interview process.