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Slingshot Aerospace

Senior Recruiter

Posted 5 Days Ago
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Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United States
140K-190K Annually
Senior level
Easy Apply
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United States
140K-190K Annually
Senior level
The Senior Recruiter will lead recruiting initiatives, manage talent acquisition strategies, maintain candidate pipelines, and ensure compliance with requirements for government contracts.
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What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Recruiter at Slingshot, you will contribute to one of the most important things at the company - building the best team in space, on earth. In addition to managing the full recruitment life-cycle across a variety of business areas, you’ll be responsible for integrating our employer brand into your recruitment process, coaching hiring managers and serving as a thought partner to them, and contributing to the evolution of our recruiting practices. 

Slingshot Aerospace cares deeply about our commitment to company values, mission, and purpose. The core competencies we will be looking to identify include: intellectual agility, ability to develop innovative solutions, leadership, performance-orientation, and industry expertise.

Position Responsibilities: 
  • Ability to articulate our business and technology to build relationships with active and passive candidates in the market 
  • Own the recruiting strategy and process for your assigned roles, with the ability and willingness to pitch in everywhere as needed 
  • Weave our employer branding initiatives into everything you do – help tell our story and showcase why talented people should join our mission
  • Act as a brand ambassador, promoting Slingshot’s culture and employee proposition in every interaction - from InMails to Interviews. 
  • Build and nurture a robust candidate pipeline through creative sourcing strategies, networking, and relationship-building
  • Create and optimize our recruiting playbook, from sourcing strategies to interview processes, ensuring we're moving quickly while maintaining high hiring standards
  • Develop data-driven recruiting strategies and consistently track your metrics to continuously improve our hiring success
  • Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in our hiring practices
  • Perform other duties as assigned (to be less than 10% of your responsibilities) 
Minimum Requirements
  • 5+ years of experience in corporate Talent Acquisition, successfully attracting and onboarding talent in a highly competitive, high-growth environment 
  • Knowledge of specialized sourcing strategies to proactively develop candidate pipelines
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate at multiple levels of the organization and persuade and influence stakeholders
  • A high degree of accuracy, care, and attention to detail 

Preferred Skills 

  • A “selling approach” to recruiting 
  • Experience leveraging equity compensation in candidate negotiations
  • Experience navigating and developing ambiguous processes in an early-stage startup

These skills are guidelines. You don’t have to meet every qualification listed - if your skills are transferable and you meet the minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. 

Location: Remote

Classification: Full-time Exempt (executive exemption)

Compensation: $120,000 - $170,000


US-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following U.S. states: AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KS, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OR, RI, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, and WI. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other U.S. states at this time.

Internationally-based Candidates: we are currently only able to hire residents of the following locations: United Kingdom. We are unable to consider candidates residing in other countries at this time.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion are key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for creating a safer, more connected world. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also national origin, citizenship, sex, color, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic that is part of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and we embrace individuality.

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