Lead Recruiter
About the role
Full-cycle technical recruiting leadership role focused on highly specialized aerospace and engineering positions at Albedo, with emphasis on building structured interview processes, compensation strategy, employer branding, and scalable recruiting operations in a fast-growing hardware/space startup.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruiting for highly specialized aerospace and engineering roles across GNC, flight software, ground software, FPGA, electric propulsion, optical systems, payload, systems engineering, and business functions
- Partner directly with hiring managers and founders to scope roles, define success criteria, and build structured interview processes that move quickly without sacrificing quality
- Build and maintain candidate pipelines for both active and anticipated hiring needs, using a mix of LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceboxAI, referrals, and direct sourcing
- Administer and continuously improve our Greenhouse ATS, including interview kits, scorecards, workflows, and reporting
- Own compensation benchmarking and offer strategy using Pave and Carta, partnering with leadership on salary band construction
- Develop and deliver interviewer training, scorecard calibration, and hiring manager enablement to raise the bar on interview quality across the company
- Maintain Albedo's hiring documentation and process library in Notion, ensuring the recruiting function scales without losing structure
- Contribute to employer branding and careers-site content, including outbound messaging, candidate-facing collateral, and conference or campus strategy
- Track and report on funnel metrics such as time-to-fill, pass-through rates, offer acceptance, sourcing channel effectiveness, using the data to drive decisions and improve processes
Qualifications
- 7+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with meaningful time recruiting deep technical ICs (hardware, firmware, systems, or flight software preferred)
- Prior experience in aerospace, defense, hard tech, or another highly specialized technical domain; ITAR/export-control awareness is a strong plus
- Demonstrated success hiring into small, specialized talent pools where sourcing creativity and messaging craft matter more than volume
- Fluency with Greenhouse (or comparable ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter, and modern sourcing tools (JuiceboxAI, Gem, etc.)
- Experience partnering directly with founders or executive-level hiring managers; comfortable pushing back with data when a role scope or offer strategy needs reworking
- Strong compensation fluency; hands-on experience with Pave, Carta, or similar tools
- Startup experience at the 30 - 100 person stage; comfort operating with ambiguity, wearing multiple hats, and building process where none exists
- Excellent written communication - your outreach gets responses and your candidate experience reflects well on the company
Skills
Benefits
- Employee friendly equity compensation
- 4% direct matching 401k
- Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage
- Parental leave and childcare coverage
- Flexible vacation and sick time from day one
- 12 company holidays
- $100 monthly wellness benefit
- Relocation package if not based in Denver
About Albedo
Full-stack VLEO satellite missions
Albedo builds and operates satellites in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) — a new orbital layer much closer to Earth than traditional satellites in LEO. Flying lower unlocks sharper imagery, faster communications, and real-time maneuverability with smaller, more efficient hardware. VLEO is naturally self-cleaning and resilient, offering a sustainable alternative to crowded low Earth orbit - providing diversification and redundancy for critical systems that we rely on in higher orbits. With the only flight proven VLEO system on the market, Albedo is creating a new orbital infrastructure designed for speed, precision, and resilience.
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