Foundry Robotics
Senior Recruiter, GTM + G&A
Emeryville, CA. Posted 25 days ago
The role
This person will own hiring for the commercial organization and business operations. They will build the commercial engine and learn the business models, unit economics, and customer needs.
What you will do
- Own hiring for the commercial organization including account executives, sales engineers, and marketing
- Own hiring across business operations including finance, legal, IT, supply chain, facilities, and program management
- Learn the business, including how the company makes money, deal structures, customers, unit economics, and working capital
- Force role clarity before the req opens
- Build the Foundry pitch for commercial candidates
- Run talent competitor analysis against robotics, AV, defense primes, and industrial automation
- Own the offer and the close, including the cash-versus-equity conversation
- Decompose commercial roles into competency maps
Required qualifications
- 5+ years recruiting, with real experience in either GTM or G&A
- Business savvy to understand sales models and finance needs
- Great salesperson with experience closing candidates against better offers
- Genuine curiosity about how the business works
- Experience hiring first-of-kind roles with no existing team to pattern-match against
- AI-efficient using tooling to multiply sourcing, research, and market-mapping output
Nice to have
- Experience in complex hardware or capital equipment
- Defense, dual-use, or government-adjacent commercial hiring, including capture and BD roles
- Experience in an early-stage company where the talent function was built rather than inherited
- Experience using Ashby
Benefits
- Base salary
- Equity
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Generous PTO
About the company
Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Their mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer.