Senior Executive Sourcer, Production Leadership

Anduril Industries • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

We are seeking a driven and experienced sourcer to join our talent acquisition team, specifically focusing on our critical manufacturing and supply chain leadership positions within our production engineering organization. In this role, you will proactively identify, engage, and nurture top-tier talent across various hardware manufacturing, assembly, and related engineering disciplines to support our fast-paced, innovative environment. You will partner closely with fellow sourcers and recruiters to build pipelines for key leadership production, integration, and manufacturing engineering roles, helping to scale our ability to build and deliver advanced defense technology.

Requirements

• 5+ years of recruiting or sourcing experience with a proven track record of hiring senior-level technical talent (e.g., Hardware, Manufacturing, Aerospace, or Production Engineering).
• 3+ years of direct client-facing experience partnering with Directors and Hiring Managers to scope roles, review profiles, and drive hiring processes.
• Proven success recruiting in a high-growth startup, hyper-growth tech company, or high-performing recruitment agency.
• Advanced expertise with LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS systems (e.g., Greenhouse, Lever), CRM tools (e.g., Gem), and advanced sourcing methodology.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with ITAR/EAR regulations and recruiting candidates requiring security clearances.
• Experience leveraging recruiting metrics and pipeline data to influence hiring manager behavior and improve interview-to-offer ratios.
• Proven ability to coach hiring managers on interviewing best practices, market realities, and candidate closing strategies.
• Highly autonomous, collaborative, adaptable, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a rapidly scaling environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers to build and execute sourcing strategies for complex manufacturing, supply chain, and Aerospace roles.
• Utilize cutting-edge sourcing techniques (including Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, data extraction, and web-scraping) to find and engage passive, top-tier talent.
• Act as a trusted talent advisor to Production Directors and Hiring Managers, providing market intelligence, pipeline data, and process recommendations.
• Manage candidates through the interview process, conducting initial assessments to ensure strong technical and cultural alignment.
• Build comprehensive talent maps to identify target companies, generate market insights, and inform outbound engagement strategy.
• Represent Anduril’s mission and culture to the external market, effectively pitching our unique value proposition.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: 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