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Senior Recruiting Manager, Advanced Effects

Anduril· People : Talent Acquisition : AD&S Eng Recruiting
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Costa Mesa, California$166k - $220kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Recruiting Manager owning talent delivery for a Business Line within Anduril's Air Dominance & Strike division, focusing on strategic partnership with BL leadership, headcount planning, and end-to-end recruiting delivery for advanced aerospace programs.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end TA strategy for your assigned Business Line, including headcount planning, demand management, requisition prioritization, and delivery against hiring targets tied to program milestones and revenue commitments.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to BL leadership (VP, Program Directors, General Managers, and Division Heads), using market intelligence, hiring data, and capacity models to influence decisions and shape the talent roadmap.
  • Define and manage hiring goals, SLAs, and success metrics for your Business Line — reporting progress through dashboards and business reviews with full transparency on pipeline health, risks, and capacity.
  • Partner with Division BizOps, Finance, and Workforce Planning to align on headcount allocation, budget, hiring sequencing, and revenue-driven demand changes.
  • Own all hiring progress reporting for your Business Line, delivering regular updates to divisional leadership and acting as the primary escalation point for hiring blockers.
  • Set the standard for recruiting excellence: sourcing strategy, candidate engagement, assessment rigor, and closing.
  • Maintain hands-on market expertise by actively recruiting on a select portfolio, understanding talent availability, compensation dynamics, and competitive positioning for your BL's role families.
  • Lead major cross-functional hiring initiatives and surge efforts for your BL — batch days, high-volume campaigns, and ramp-to-milestone sprints.
  • Provide direct people leadership for recruiters aligned to your Business Line: performance management, coaching, mentorship, career development, and structured feedback through regular 1:1s.
  • Manage recruiter allocation, capacity, and performance tracking — acting as the single source of truth for the Divisional Head of TA on team health and delivery confidence.
  • Foster a high-performance culture that emphasizes skill development, collaboration, data discipline, and delivering a world-class candidate and hiring manager experience.
  • Provide structured, high-quality feedback into recruiter performance reviews, ensuring business impact and hiring outcomes are recognized alongside activity metrics.
  • Drive consistency in role intakes, interview processes, compensation calibration, and candidate experience across your BL — ensuring every search runs to a standard, not ad hoc.
  • Champion cross-BL collaboration and candidate sharing within your Division — optimizing talent placement and ensuring fungible, high-quality pipelines across programs.
  • Proactively identify process gaps, hiring bottlenecks, and systemic issues within your BL portfolio — building sustainable solutions rather than one-off fixes.
  • Partner with Recruiting Operations on tooling, reporting, and automation opportunities specific to your BL's hiring patterns.

Qualifications

  • 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 — you must be credible as a practitioner, not just a strategist.
  • 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

Skills

Required:Strategic TA planningExecutive stakeholder managementPeople leadershipData-driven recruiting

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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