Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Gitai • Los Angeles, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

GITAI is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager to build a unique recruiting and talent-market advantage specific to the company. This role involves working with the Head of HR and hiring leaders to identify, engage, assess, and hire exceptional people across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and corporate functions. The strategy should be tailored to GITAI’s mission, technical work, stage, strengths, and constraints, focusing on talent markets where GITAI can win. This is a hands-on management role, requiring active participation in frontline recruiting as the company and recruiting team grow.

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in an agency, startup, or high-growth company.
• 1+ year of in-house recruiting experience at an early-stage startup, Series B or earlier.
• A proven record of identifying, engaging, and closing difficult-to-find candidates, including passive talent.
• Experience recruiting technical roles and across multiple functions.
• A track record of building new sourcing channels, talent communities, partnerships, or outreach programs from scratch.
• The ability to learn unfamiliar technical fields quickly enough to run credible searches and evaluate candidate relevance.
• Strong judgment about where an early-stage company can compete for talent, combined with the confidence to challenge hiring leaders when needed.
• A hands-on operating style, comfortable moving between sourcing, candidate conversations, assessment, closing, recruiting data, and process improvement.
• Experience with applicant tracking systems and professional sourcing tools.
• U.S. citizenship is required due to the nature of GITAI’s work with U.S. government customers and programs.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in space, aerospace, defense, robotics, advanced manufacturing, or another hard-technology industry is strongly preferred.
• Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter experience is preferred.
• Experience mentoring recruiters or managing a small recruiting team is helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting from role definition through accepted offer, partnering closely with the Head of HR and hiring leaders.
• Proactively map, identify, and engage scarce, high-impact talent, including passive candidates and people in adjacent talent markets.
• Build GITAI-specific talent channels and long-term pipelines through university engineering teams, technical communities, social media, events, partnerships, referrals, and targeted outreach.
• Learn each role in enough technical and operational depth to define strong candidate profiles and distinguish real capability from surface-level fit.
• Act as a trusted recruiting partner to hiring leaders, challenging assumptions when talent-market evidence points to a better search, evaluation, or hiring approach.
• Assess, engage, and close candidates based on capability, motivation, and fit with GITAI’s operating environment, building candidate-specific reasons to join.
• Keep recruiting fast and disciplined through clear ownership, timely feedback, accurate data, and continuous improvement.
• As the team grows, help hire and develop additional recruiters while remaining active in frontline recruiting.

Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees, with 90% coverage for dependents, plus life insurance
• 401(k) plan with a company match
• Stock options in a rapidly growing startup, giving you a stake in our success
• Financial assistance for relocation is available for candidates residing outside the Los Angeles area
• 12 days of paid time off (PTO) and 12 company holidays annually
• Free snacks and drinks, plus regular social events to foster team spirit

What This Job Offers

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