Head of Talent (Aerospace)

Location: Los Angeles (Hawthorne), California, United States; occasional travel.

Salary: $140,000–$200,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures robotic and industrial technologies for producing water, power, and oxygen on the Moon and Mars.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end recruiting, including sourcing, screening, hiring-manager partnership, offer construction, and closing.
• Build sourcing pipelines for specialized aerospace, hardware, robotics, chemistry, avionics, software, and factory operations roles.
• Define intake requirements, interview loops, hiring-manager accountability, and the candidate experience.
• Own Ashby as the recruiting system of record, including job postings, workflows, reporting, pipeline hygiene, and integrations.
• Set compensation philosophy, benchmark against space-industry peers, calibrate bands, and negotiate offers.
• Establish recruiting metrics and eventually build and lead the talent team.

Requirements

• Technical recruiting experience hiring engineers in aerospace, hardware, robotics, or comparable deep-tech environments.
• Experience owning senior individual-contributor and leadership searches end to end.
• Demonstrated ability to close difficult candidates against competitive offers.
• Strong partnership skills with technical hiring managers and confidence challenging role scope when necessary.
• Experience owning an ATS such as Ashby, Greenhouse, or a comparable platform.
• Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements: U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residence, refugee or asylee status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience at a hardware startup or aerospace, space, defense, or ITAR/EAR-controlled company.
• Experience building or scaling a talent function, including processes, tools, and pipelines.
• People-management experience or readiness to hire and lead a small talent team.
• Familiarity with California pay-transparency law, SB 1162, and compensation benchmarking in Los Angeles aerospace.
• Experience sourcing niche technical talent through targeted outreach and representing an employer at industry events or universities.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary with an equity package.
• PTO and health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Equal-opportunity and inclusive work environment.
• Occasional travel connected to recruiting activities.