Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition (Aerospace)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, California, with 3 days per week in the San Francisco office

Salary: $231,500–$289,400 USD annually for the San Francisco location, plus potential bonus and equity incentives

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates a constellation of imaging satellites and delivers satellite data through a cloud-based platform for commercial, environmental, and humanitarian applications.

What you will do

• Set and execute the global talent acquisition strategy and lead a distributed Talent Team.
• Design and operate recruiting capacity planning, forecasting, process, and analytics.
• Partner with executives and hiring managers to convert headcount plans into predictable hiring outcomes.
• Own recruiting systems, operations, reporting, data quality, and performance measurement.
• Manage external staffing partners and vendor relationships across specialized and global talent markets.
• Improve candidate experience, employer brand, and inclusive hiring practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years leading talent acquisition at scale in a high-growth organization.
• 8+ years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing recruiting teams and managers.
• Experience designing recruiting models based on capacity planning, forecasting, process, and analytics.
• Experience hiring for technical and specialized roles, including engineering, hardware, or other complex disciplines.
• Ability to advise and influence executives and senior hiring leaders.
• Experience managing recruiting systems, metrics, external staffing partners, and hiring across multiple regions, including outside the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, hardware, deep tech, or complex engineering environments.
• Experience building recruiting operations, analytics, or capacity-planning capabilities.
• Familiarity with global employment considerations across EMEA and APAC.
• Experience integrating AI or automation into recruiting workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• People-centric culture focused on belonging, inclusion, and humanitarian impact.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, plus an HSA with company contributions.
• Paid time off, holidays, company-wide days off, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Wellness and employee assistance programs.
• Home-office, phone, internet, commuter, tuition, and LinkedIn Learning benefits.
• Equity and paid volunteering time off.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted until October 29, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. / 23:59 CET.
• Select interviews may be recorded and transcribed with candidate consent; opting out does not affect candidacy.
• AI tools are prohibited during live interviews and active assessments unless explicitly permitted.