Talent Acquisition Leader (AI)

Location: Torrance, CA; full-time, on-site at the Los Angeles headquarters.

Base salary: M3: $190,000 annually; M4: $220,000 annually. Full-time offers include equity grants and semi-annual bonuses tied to impact.

Company

Arc is electrifying the marine industry by developing electric powertrains, software, and vessel designs for consumer, commercial, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of recruiters and coordinators while improving goals, performance, and candidate experience.
• Own the hiring plan end to end, partnering with senior leadership on headcount planning, timelines, prioritization, and tradeoffs.
• Personally recruit critical and senior roles across engineering, manufacturing, operations, commercial teams, and skilled trades.
• Build scalable recruiting processes covering intake, structured interviews, offer approvals, closing, and candidate communications.
• Advise hiring managers on role design, compensation, market conditions, selection decisions, and accountability.
• Manage Greenhouse, recruiting data, AI-enabled recruiting workflows, agency relationships, budget, employer storytelling, partnerships, and reporting on pipeline health, time to fill, offer acceptance, and source quality.
• Ensure hiring practices meet employment law and ITAR requirements as Arc expands into defense work.

Requirements

• 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including at least 2 years leading recruiters or a talent acquisition function.
• Experience hiring across technical and non-technical roles, including engineering and manufacturing or skilled trades.
• Background in a high-growth environment such as a startup, hardware, automotive, aerospace, or energy company.
• Proficiency with an ATS, preferably Greenhouse, and ability to use recruiting data to forecast, prioritize, and report.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, challenge decisions with data, and hold hiring managers accountable.
• Ability to build processes from scratch while personally closing top candidates.
• Track record of scaling AI across a recruiting team to improve throughput, quality, and creativity responsibly.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting in marine, EV, defense, or other regulated hardware industries.
• Proficiency with ITAR or export-control screening and hiring for cleared or defense-adjacent roles.
• Experience scaling a recruiting team through hypergrowth, such as from 100 to 500+ employees.
• Experience building university, apprenticeship, or veteran hiring programs.
• Comfort with a fast but sustainable pace.
• Enthusiasm for boating and clean energy.

Culture & Benefits

• Values include ownership, empathy, humility, pragmatism, inclusion, urgency, and care in execution.
• Healthcare benefits are 99% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Benefits include 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, competitive PTO, life and disability insurance, and Traditional and Roth 401(k) access.
• Additional benefits include a $500 annual water fund, $500 annual professional-development reimbursement, a monthly AI stipend, and annual safety-equipment reimbursement.
• Captain training, access to Arc boats, daily onsite lunches, snacks, coffee, and relocation assistance depending on role eligibility are provided.

Hiring process

• The interview process includes discussion of Arc's values and the candidate's alignment with them.