Senior Recruiting Manager, Advanced Effects

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

The Air Dominance & Strike team develops advanced combat aircraft and systems. This role focuses on building the teams behind Advanced Effects (AE) and the Barracuda & Roadrunner families. AE is a significant revenue driver for the company. The position involves strategic business partnership and direct people leadership, translating business objectives into hiring strategies, prioritizing demand, and ensuring timely talent acquisition for mission-essential roles. The Senior Recruiting Manager will own the hiring plan, reporting, escalations, and outcomes for their assigned Business Line, ensuring major programs have the necessary talent to meet milestones.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive TA experience, with significant experience owning a business unit's hiring strategy.
• Fully autonomous.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with and influence VP-level stakeholders.
• Proven full-cycle recruiting experience in a complex technical environment.
• Strong business acumen: ability to connect hiring outcomes to program milestones, revenue commitments, and capacity models.
• Excellent analytical skills — experience using data to drive prioritization, tell a story to leadership, and hold a team accountable to outcomes.
• Experience leading hiring initiatives beyond individual searches: surge campaigns, batch hiring, portfolio prioritization, capacity planning.
• Ability to operate with high autonomy in ambiguous environments, managing competing priorities with sound judgment and minimal oversight.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in frontier-tech, defense, aerospace, or advanced manufacturing industries with 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, budget alignment, and headcount governance.
• Formal program or project management background (PMP, Agile, or similar).
• Experience building and scaling recruiting operations for a specific business unit during a period of high growth or organizational change.
• Track record of developing recruiters — evidence of coaching, mentoring, or managing team members to improved performance outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end TA strategy for the assigned Business Line, including headcount planning, demand management, requisition prioritization, and delivery against hiring targets.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Business Line leadership, using market intelligence and data to influence talent strategy.
• Define and manage hiring goals, SLAs, and success metrics for the Business Line, reporting progress through dashboards and business reviews.
• Partner with Division BizOps, Finance, and Workforce Planning to align on headcount, budget, and hiring sequencing.
• Own all hiring progress reporting for the Business Line and act as the primary escalation point for hiring blockers.
• Set the standard for recruiting excellence in 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 for the Business Line.
• Provide direct people leadership for recruiters, including performance management, coaching, and career development.
• Manage recruiter allocation, capacity, and performance tracking.
• Foster a high-performance culture emphasizing skill development, collaboration, and a world-class candidate experience.
• Provide structured feedback into recruiter performance reviews.
• Drive consistency in role intakes, interview processes, compensation calibration, and candidate experience.
• Champion cross-BL collaboration and candidate sharing within the Division.
• Proactively identify process gaps and hiring bottlenecks, building sustainable solutions.
• Partner with Recruiting Operations on tooling, reporting, and automation opportunities.

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