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Salary: USD 190,000 - 220,000 / annual
Arc is electrifying the marine industry by rethinking powertrains, software, and vessel designs from first principles. The company has proven core technology, is scaling production of its flagship consumer model, and is now extending its platform to commercial applications including tugs, ferries, and defense work with signed contracts.
As Manager of Talent Acquisition, you will own Arc's hiring strategy as the company scales from flagship production into commercial and defense programs. You will build and lead the recruiting team, run a hiring engine that moves fast without compromising quality, and partner with leaders across engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams to land critical talent.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading, coaching, and growing a team of recruiters and coordinators while 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
- Personally recruiting for critical and senior roles across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and commercial
- Building scalable recruiting processes from intake through offer approvals and close
- Partnering with hiring managers as a trusted advisor on role design, market realities, compensation, and selection decisions
- Running Greenhouse and the recruiting tech stack, keeping data clean and leveraging AI to help a small team do more
- Sharing pipeline health, time to fill, offer acceptance, and source quality metrics with leadership
- Getting creative about finding hard-to-fill technical and skilled trades talent from passive candidates and professionals in automotive, aerospace, energy, and traditional marine
- Telling Arc's story through job descriptions, outreach, events, university and veteran partnerships, and referral programs
- Building an inclusive hiring process where people from all backgrounds see themselves at Arc
- Ensuring hiring practices meet employment law and ITAR export control requirements as Arc expands into defense work
- Managing agency relationships and recruiting budget with a bias toward building in-house capability
Requirements:
- 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 hypergrowth (e.g., 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
