CW Production Recruiting Lead
Anduril IndustriesAutonomous Systems company
Costa Mesa, United States$166,000 - $220,000 USDLead
Founders Fund
Andreessen Horowitz
Thrive Capital
Valor Equity Partners
General Catalyst
Sands Capital
People / HR / Recruitment
About the role
TL;DR
Own production hiring outcomes for CW, acting as a strategic talent partner and player-coach.
- •As a Production Recruiting Lead for Connected Warfare (CW) Division, you are the single-threaded owner of all production/manufacturing/supply chain hiring outcomes.
- •This role exists to solve a critical alignment gap: giving CW leaders direct visibility, accountability, and control over their talent pipelines while maintaining leverage from centralized recruiting operations.
- •Key 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 your Head of TA and senior divisional leaders, translating business objectives into executable hiring strategies.
- •Personally own and execute full-cycle recruiting on priority roles as needed for CW's most critical, complex, or strategic production roles.
- •Align the day-to-day priorities of the centralized production recruiting team aligned to your Division, ensuring their focus is calibrated to the highest-impact hiring 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.
- •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.
Required skills
Talent AcquisitionProgram Management
Nice-to-have skills
Workforce Planning
Domain expertise
defense
Benefits & perks
Equity, Health Insurance
Tech stack
Greenhouse