Talent Acquisition Leader

Arc Boat Company•Torrance, CA

2d•$190,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

Arc’s Manager, Talent Acquisition will own the company’s hiring as it scales from flagship production into commercial and defense programs. The role builds and leads the recruiting team, runs a fast and rigorous hiring engine, and partners with leaders across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and commercial teams to hire the people who will help electrify the marine industry. This is a full-time, on-site role at Arc’s Los Angeles headquarters.

Requirements

8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 2 years leading recruiters or a talent acquisition function.
Experience hiring for technical and non-technical roles, including engineering and manufacturing or skilled trades.
Experience in a high-growth environment such as a startup, hardware, automotive, aerospace, or energy company.
Proficiency with an applicant tracking system; Greenhouse is preferred.
Ability to use recruiting data to forecast, prioritize, and report.
Ability to influence senior leaders, challenge them with data, and hold hiring managers accountable.
Ability to build processes from scratch while personally closing top candidates.
A track record of responsibly scaling AI across a recruiting team to improve throughput, quality, and creativity.

Nice To Haves

Experience recruiting in marine, EV, defense, or other regulated hardware industries.
Proficiency with ITAR or export-control screening and recruiting for cleared or defense-adjacent roles.
Experience scaling a recruiting team during hypergrowth, such as from 100 to 500+ employees.
Experience building university, apprenticeship, or veteran hiring programs.
Comfort pushing a fast but sustainable pace.
Enthusiasm for boating and clean energy.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and grow a team of recruiters and coordinators, setting clear goals and improving candidate experience.
Own Arc’s hiring plan end to end, partnering with senior leadership on headcount timelines and priorities and making tradeoffs as plans change.
Personally recruit for critical and senior roles across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and commercial.
Build scalable recruiting processes, including intake, structured interviews, offer approvals, and candidate closing.
Advise hiring managers on role design, market conditions, compensation, and selection decisions.
Manage Greenhouse and the recruiting technology stack, maintain clean data, and use AI to help the team work more effectively and creatively.
Report pipeline health, time to fill, offer acceptance, and source quality to support informed decisions.
Develop creative approaches to sourcing hard-to-fill technical and skilled-trades talent, including passive candidates and people from automotive, aerospace, energy, and traditional marine industries.
Communicate Arc’s story through job descriptions, outreach, events, university and veteran partnerships, and referral programs.
Build an inclusive hiring process where people from all backgrounds can see themselves at Arc and feel they belong.
Ensure hiring practices comply with employment law and ITAR export-control requirements as Arc expands into defense work.
Manage agency relationships and the recruiting budget while building in-house recruiting capability.