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Salary: USD 160,000 - 220,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology, AI, autonomy, and sensor fusion. The Talent Acquisition team builds the leadership bench powering Anduril's mission. As the company scales from growth-stage to a generational platform, the quality of its SG&A leadership becomes a defining competitive advantage.
You will own full-cycle executive searches across SG&A functions—Finance, Legal, People, Communications, and other corporate leadership roles—from intake through close, with emphasis on VP-and-above positions. You will serve as a trusted advisor to Anduril's C-suite and functional leaders on executive talent strategy, market mapping, compensation benchmarking, and organizational design as it relates to senior hiring.
Key responsibilities include: building and maintaining a proprietary network of senior defense and national security talent, including retired general/flag officers, former senior acquisition officials, and executives from prime and non-traditional defense companies; developing rigorous search processes that bring structure to relationship-driven hiring through calibration sessions, candidate scorecards, pipeline reviews, and stakeholder alignment; acting as Anduril's brand ambassador to the senior defense community, representing the company's mission and trajectory credibly to candidates weighing Anduril against established primes and government service; partnering with Security to navigate clearance timelines and adjudication complexity for candidates with active or reinvestigable TS/SCI and SAP access; collaborating with the broader Talent Acquisition team to share market intelligence and refine the executive recruiting playbook; and tracking and reporting on pipeline health, time-to-fill, and search effectiveness to identify bottlenecks and continuously improve the function.
You will operate with autonomy, build systems that turn founder-led referrals into rigorous pipelines, and earn trust quickly with senior candidates. This role requires deep working knowledge of the DoD acquisition ecosystem, established relationships across the ex-military-turned-industry community, and executive presence to drive process alongside C-level stakeholders.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of recruiting experience, with at least 4 years focused on executive-level searches (VP and above) in a corporate, retained search, or hybrid environment
- Demonstrated track record of closing senior hires in defense, national security, aerospace, or adjacent government-adjacent industries
- Deep familiarity with the DoD acquisition ecosystem—understanding how PEOs, DASA offices, service acquisition executives, and program offices operate, and knowledge of where senior talent moves when it leaves government
- Established personal network across the cleared defense and intelligence community at the senior leader level
- Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and sound judgment in an environment where processes are still being built
- Executive presence and communication skills sufficient to partner credibly with C-level stakeholders and engage candidates at the general officer and senior executive level
- Comfort managing multiple concurrent searches with competing priorities and tight timelines
- Must be authorized to work in the United States
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Prior in-house executive recruiting experience at a defense technology company or venture-backed high-growth company
- Prior retained search experience with a strong defense or aerospace practice
- Understanding of executive compensation structures and equity design in both federal and technology contexts
- Prior experience placing former general or flag officers, or candidates transitioning from military service into industry commercial leadership
- Familiarity with Anduril's product portfolio and competitive positioning within the defense technology landscape
- Experience building executive recruiting functions or playbooks from scratch—intake templates, assessment frameworks, market maps, and reporting cadences
- Background in or exposure to military service, defense civilian roles, or the defense industrial base that provides natural credibility with the candidate population
