Senior Recruiter - G&A

The role

This person will lead full-cycle recruiting for senior and complex roles across Shield AI's General and Administrative (G&A) functions. The work covers Finance, Legal, People, Enterprise Operations, IT, Facilities and other corporate functions, and includes advising senior leaders on hiring.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for complex and senior-level roles across G&A functions
• Advise senior and executive leaders on workforce needs, candidate profiles and hiring strategy
• Lead intake and calibration sessions that turn business priorities into search and interview plans
• Use AI to speed up market research, talent mapping, sourcing and candidate engagement
• Build proactive pipelines across technology, aerospace, defense, manufacturing and adjacent industries
• Assess candidates with structured, consistent practices
• Use recruiting data to find trends, improve workflows and address pipeline risks
• Drive hiring processes, resolve bottlenecks and keep stakeholders accountable
• Lead candidate engagement, complex offer negotiations and closing
• Mentor recruiters and sourcers on G&A hiring and AI-enabled workflows

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including significant G&A or corporate functions hiring
• Success recruiting across areas such as Finance, Legal or other functions with unique complexity
• Experience independently leading complex, senior-level searches from intake through offer acceptance
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives and influence hiring decisions using data and market expertise
• Hands-on experience using AI, automation and recruiting technology
• Ability to identify practical AI use cases and turn them into scalable recruiting workflows
• Strong analytical skills and experience turning talent data into recommendations
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and consultative partnership skills
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, including privacy, confidentiality, bias mitigation and human oversight
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, changing priorities and rapid growth
• High discretion, sound judgment and a team-oriented approach to mentoring

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits (for full-time regular employees)
• Temporary benefits package for temporary employees, applicable after 60 days of employment

Before you apply

• Offers are contingent on a cleared background check and possible reference check
• Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits
• Salary depends on factors such as skill set, experience, licenses and certifications, and work location

About the company

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company that builds intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.