Talent Acquisition Leader

The role

You will lead and grow a recruiting team to support scaling into commercial and defense programs. You will own the end-to-end hiring plan and personally recruit for critical senior roles across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and commercial sectors.

What you will do

• Leading, coaching, and growing a team of recruiters and coordinators
• Owning Arc's hiring plan end to end
• Personally recruiting for critical and senior roles
• Building scalable recruiting processes
• Partnering with hiring managers as a trusted advisor
• Running Greenhouse and the recruiting tech stack
• Sharing pipeline health, time to fill, offer acceptance, and source quality
• Finding hard-to-fill technical and skilled trades talent
• Telling Arc's story through job descriptions, outreach, and programs
• Building a hiring process for inclusion

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
• 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
• 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

Nice to have

• 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 a hypergrowth stage (for example, 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

Benefits

• 99% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 14 weeks fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Highly competitive PTO with an opportunity to earn more time with tenure
• Life and disability insurance
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) access
• $500 annual water fund
• $500 annual professional development reimbursement
• Monthly AI stipend
• Annual reimbursement for PPE, ergonomic equipment and anything that ensures we keep our crew safe
• Captain training
• Daily lunches, snacks, and good coffee while onsite
• Relocation assistance depending on role eligibility

About the company

Arc is on a mission to electrify the marine industry by rethinking powertrains, software, and vessel designs. They are scaling production of their flagship model and extending their platform to commercial applications including tugs, ferries, and defense.