Senior Recruiting Manager, Advanced Effects

The role

You will own the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy for a specific Business Line or Strategic Program. You will provide direct people leadership to a team of recruiters and act as a strategic advisor to business leadership.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end TA strategy for the assigned Business Line.
• Act as a trusted advisor to VP, Program Directors, General Managers, and Division Heads.
• Define and manage hiring goals, SLAs, and success metrics.
• Partner with Division BizOps, Finance, and Workforce Planning on headcount and budget.
• Deliver regular hiring progress reporting to divisional leadership.
• Set standards for sourcing, candidate engagement, assessment, and closing.
• Maintain hands-on market expertise by actively recruiting on a select portfolio.
• Lead major cross-functional hiring initiatives and surge efforts.
• Provide direct people leadership, coaching, and performance management for recruiters.
• Drive consistency in role intakes, interview processes, and compensation calibration.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive TA experience.
• Significant experience owning a business unit's hiring strategy.
• Proven full-cycle recruiting experience in a complex technical environment.
• Strong business acumen to connect hiring to program milestones and revenue.
• Excellent analytical skills using data to drive prioritization.
• Experience leading hiring initiatives like surge campaigns and capacity planning.
• Ability to operate with high autonomy in ambiguous environments.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Nice to have

• Experience in frontier-tech, defense, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing industries.
• Understanding of clearance requirements, site-based hiring, and program-driven demand.
• Direct experience managing or leading a team of recruiters.
• Experience partnering with BizOps, Finance, and HR Business Partners on workforce planning.
• Formal program or project management background (PMP, Agile, or similar).
• Experience building and scaling recruiting operations during high growth.
• Track record of developing recruiters through coaching or mentoring.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees.

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.
• By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.