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Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 / annual
Anduril Industries, a defense technology company transforming military capabilities through advanced AI and autonomy, is seeking a Senior Recruiter to own the "Recruiting for Recruiting" function. This is a uniquely meta role: you will build the talent acquisition team that builds all other teams across the organization.
You will own the end-to-end hiring process for recruiting roles—sourcing, assessing, and closing Recruiters and Recruiting Coordinators who become the backbone of Anduril's hiring engine. Operating in a matrixed structure, you will align with a Business Line Lead for day-to-day priorities while reporting to a Functional Manager for long-term career development.
Key Responsibilities:
**End-to-End Hiring Execution**
- Own the full recruiting lifecycle for Recruiter and Recruiting Coordinator roles across divisions, from sourcing through offer close, ensuring world-class candidate experience.
- Develop creative sourcing strategies to build robust pipelines for TA talent, recognizing that top recruiters are rarely active applicants and require differentiated outreach.
- Manage interviews end-to-end: conduct in-depth screens assessing recruiting craft, prepare candidates and interviewers, and facilitate calibrated debriefs that distinguish strong operators from strong interviewees.
- Assess candidates against a competency framework, evaluating how they think about sourcing, stakeholder management, data, and candidate experience.
**Embedded Business Partnership**
- Partner with TA leadership and hiring managers across divisions to understand recruiting capacity needs, team composition gaps, and profiles that succeed in each business context.
- Act as a talent advisor using market data on recruiter compensation, availability by specialization (technical, G&A, cleared), and competitive intelligence to shape job descriptions and influence headcount planning.
- Provide transparent, regular updates on pipeline health, search progress, and market conditions to stakeholders.
- Advise on role design and leveling for TA positions, helping hiring managers distinguish between IC levels and scope coordinator roles appropriately.
**Functional Craft & Collaboration**
- Contribute to the TA Center of Excellence by sharing market intelligence on recruiting talent trends, compensation benchmarks, and sourcing strategies.
- Mentor junior recruiters on judgment calls that separate good recruiters from great ones: when to push back on hiring managers, how to read passive candidate motivations, when to walk away from mis-scoped searches.
- Partner with your Functional Manager to set development goals and grow toward Staff-level impact.
- Uphold data integrity in ATS/CRM systems to ensure accurate reporting, capacity planning, and pipeline analytics.
Location: Boston, MA (with options for Costa Mesa, CA; Seattle, WA; or Washington, DC).
**REQUIRED 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. Must know where to find strong recruiting talent and how to assess craft, not just career narrative.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex, senior-level searches and calibrate candidates against a competency-based framework—not just pattern-matching on resume keywords.
- 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, including TA leaders.
- Data-informed mindset: track pipeline metrics, use conversion data to diagnose search health, and present market intelligence to influence decisions.
- Ability to operate with high sense of urgency and bias for action while maintaining quality and candidate experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to build rapport with candidates who are expert communicators and relationship-builders.
- Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**
- Experience recruiting in defense, aerospace, or related high-tech industries where cleared talent and mission-driven positioning are factors.
- Experience hiring for TA roles across multiple specializations (technical recruiting, G&A, executive, cleared, coordination/operations).
- Experience working in matrixed or dual-reporting organizational structures.
- Demonstrated ability to improve TA hiring processes—interview design, assessment frameworks, onboarding—not just execute them.
- Familiarity with recruiting competency models and ability to articulate what "great" looks like at each level of the TA career ladder.
