Production Recruiting Lead, Connected Warfare

Anduril Industries • Costa Mesa, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

As a Production Recruiting Lead for the Connected Warfare (CW) Division, you will be the single-threaded owner of all production/manufacturing/supply chain hiring outcomes. This role is designed to address a critical alignment gap by providing CW leaders with direct visibility, accountability, and control over their talent pipelines, while still leveraging centralized recruiting operations. You will function as an embedded player-coach and strategic program manager, personally handling critical and complex production assignments and aligning the priorities and workload of the centralized production recruiting team for all divisional roles. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy position for a proven recruiting professional who can think strategically, execute tactically, and build trusted relationships with senior divisional leadership. The role serves as a bridge in the organization's evolution, laying the groundwork for CW to eventually manage production recruiting end-to-end while ensuring execution efficiency and central coordination during a period of structural maturity.

Requirements

• 8+ years of talent acquisition experience, including significant recent experience as a full-cycle production or technical recruiter in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Proven ability to operate independently with minimal oversight, managing complex hiring portfolios, competing priorities, and ambiguous situations with sound judgment.
• Strong business partnership skills: experience influencing and advising Director-level and above stakeholders, translating business needs into hiring strategies, and managing escalations diplomatically.
• Demonstrated program management capability—experience leading hiring initiatives beyond individual requisitions, coordinating cross-functional teams, and delivering results through others.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills: ability to use data to drive decisions, tell a compelling story, and present hiring health narratives to senior leadership.
• Comfortable working in a matrixed environment, providing direction and feedback to peers without formal management authority.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience recruiting for production, production operations, or frontline roles in industries such as synergistics, robotics, logistics, manufacturing, field services, or government contracting.
• Experience working in a decentralized or divisional business structure, particularly in organizations undergoing TA operating model transitions.
• Formal program or project management training or certification (e.g., PMP, Agile, Six Sigma).
• Prior experience as a recruiting lead, squad lead, or business partner with responsibility for a portfolio of hiring beyond personal requisition load.
• Familiarity with workforce planning, capacity modeling, and demand forecasting in partnership with Finance or BizOps teams.
• Track record of mentoring or coaching recruiters, with examples of improving team performance or developing junior talent.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end production hiring outcomes for CW, including headcount planning, demand forecasting, requisition prioritization, and delivery against hiring targets.
• Act as the primary strategic talent partner to the Head of TA and senior divisional leaders, translating business objectives into executable hiring strategies.
• Deliver regular reporting on hiring health, pipeline velocity, capacity constraints, and risk mitigation to divisional leadership, providing full transparency and "positive control" over talent delivery.
• Define and manage SLAs, hiring goals, and success metrics for the Division's production portfolio in partnership with business stakeholders.
• Personally own and execute full-cycle recruiting on priority roles as needed for CW's most critical, complex, or strategic production roles, including Leadership and senior technical hires, single-point-of-failure roles, and first-of-their-kind roles requiring deep business context and creative sourcing strategies.
• Set the standard for recruiting excellence within the Division, demonstrating best-in-class sourcing, candidate engagement, assessment rigor, and offer negotiation.
• Maintain credibility and market intelligence by staying hands-on in the craft of recruiting, ensuring a deep understanding of talent availability, compensation trends, and competitive dynamics.
• Align the day-to-day priorities of the centralized production recruiting team to the Division, ensuring their focus is calibrated to the highest-impact hiring needs.
• Provide coaching, real-time feedback, and quality assurance to centralized recruiters working on the Division's roles (without formal people management responsibility).
• Lead the operational rhythm for the Division's production hiring portfolio, including intake meetings, pipeline reviews, and cross-functional coordination with hiring managers, HR, and Finance.
• Act as the single escalation point for hiring blockers, process breakdowns, or stakeholder misalignment within the Division.
• Design and lead surge hiring initiatives, high-volume campaigns, or other complex hiring programs specific to the Division's business needs.
• Partner closely with The Lead Coordinator for Overall Divisional Production TA to ensure process consistency, share best practices, and contribute to cross-divisional reporting and strategic planning.
• Provide structured input into performance evaluations and development plans for centralized recruiters supporting the Division, ensuring their contributions to divisional outcomes are recognized.
• Build strong relationships with Divisional BizOps, Finance, and Workforce Planning teams to align on headcount allocation, budget, and hiring sequencing.
• Influence hiring manager behavior and decision-making, serving as a trusted advisor on candidate quality, market realities, and talent strategy trade-offs.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed