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Salary: USD 143,000 - 191,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking a Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition for its rapidly scaling Rocket Motor Systems (RMS) division. This is a leadership role owning the full recruiting engine that fuels RMS growth across production, manufacturing engineering, quality, and supply chain functions.
You will sit at the table with production and engineering leaders, translating workforce plans into hiring strategies and maintaining a consistently high performance bar. This is not a passive support function—you will dig into recruiting data, identify bottlenecks and underperformance, and initiate process improvements based on evidence. You will build and refine measurable, repeatable recruiting processes, coach your team to execute at a high level, and ensure every hire raises organizational caliber.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage and develop a team of recruiters supporting RMS hiring across production, manufacturing engineering, quality, and supply chain
- Own end-to-end hiring strategy: forecast demand with production leaders, build pipelines, and report progress with data-backed communication
- Use recruiting data and funnel metrics to identify bottlenecks, diagnose root causes, and drive process improvements
- Set and maintain high performance standards for the recruiting team around sourcing activity, pipeline velocity, interview quality, and offer-acceptance rates
- Act as a subject matter expert in sourcing techniques and tools (Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, referral programs, SOBO campaigns) and coach your team
- Conduct interviews and calibrate hiring manager expectations, demonstrating strong interview-to-offer conversion
- Build talent maps and market intelligence specific to RMS talent landscape (propulsion, energetics, pyrotechnics, production operations)
- Drive diverse talent into the organization while ensuring excellent candidate experience
- Partner cross-functionally with HR, compensation, and workforce planning to align recruiting with headcount plans and retention goals
- Represent Anduril's brand and recruiting function with professionalism internally and externally
The ideal candidate combines operational rigor with startup recruiter creativity and urgency—solution-oriented by default, comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 10+ years of high-volume talent acquisition experience evaluating and hiring top-tier technical talent
- 8+ years partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders, reporting on progress, advising on strategy, and using data to influence hiring decisions
- 5+ years managing or mentoring a team of recruiters with accountability for time-sensitive, high-volume pipelines
- Demonstrated track record of using recruiting analytics to initiate and sustain process improvements—not just reporting metrics but acting on them
- Experience recruiting in an agency and/or fast-paced startup environment, hiring for hardware, production, manufacturing engineering, or related technical roles
- Ability to travel between sites as needed
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export-controlled information or facilities
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience standing up a talent acquisition function for a greenfield or rapidly scaling manufacturing site
- Knowledge of ITAR policies and their impact on hiring practices
- Background recruiting for solid rocket motors, propulsion, energetics, pyrotechnics, or adjacent defense/aerospace disciplines
- Track record of operating in a consultative capacity where data-informed guidance led to measurably improved hiring outcomes and candidate experience
- Experience managing multiple concurrent high-volume pipelines while maintaining process integrity and candidate engagement
- Highly autonomous, collaborative, and adaptable—comfortable driving change in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
