Who you are
- 8+ years of recruiting experience, including demonstrated success recruiting senior leadership and executive-level talent
- Proven experience managing full-cycle recruiting processes for complex, high-impact roles
- Demonstrated ability to source and engage passive candidates through direct outreach, networking, referrals, and creative search strategies
- Experience partnering directly with executive leadership and senior hiring managers
- Strong candidate assessment, relationship-building, negotiation, and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- 5+ years of demonstrated executive recruiting experience within aerospace, defense, space, advanced hardware, or other technically complex industries
- Demonstrated success recruiting VP-level, C-suite, and functional leadership positions
- Established network of senior talent across engineering, operations, manufacturing, and corporate functions
- Experience operating within a high-growth startup or scaling technology company
- Familiarity with executive search methodologies, compensation benchmarking, and competitive talent mapping
What the job involves
- As an Executive Recruiter at Impulse Space, you will lead full-cycle recruiting for senior leadership and executive-level positions across the company
- You will partner closely with executive leadership and hiring managers to identify, engage, and attract exceptional talent across engineering, manufacturing, business operations, and corporate functions
- As Impulse continues to rapidly grow, hiring top technical leaders is imperative to both our short-term, and long-term goals - you will be integral to this success
- Lead full-cycle recruiting for executive and senior leadership roles, from intake and sourcing strategy through offer negotiation and close
- Partner with the CEO, executive team, and hiring managers to define role requirements, assess talent needs, and align on hiring priorities
- Develop and execute targeted search strategies to identify exceptional passive candidates across the aerospace, defense, technology, and related industries
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for current and anticipated leadership needs
- Conduct candidate outreach and preliminary assessments, evaluating leadership capability, technical depth, cultural alignment, and overall fit
- Manage candidate relationships throughout the interview process, ensuring a high-quality, discreet, and professional experience
- Provide market intelligence on executive talent availability, compensation, organizational structures, and competitive hiring activity
- Lead offer development and negotiations in partnership with hiring managers and People Operations
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision: Enjoy the best medical, dental and optical coverage money can buy. We've got you and your family covered for all eventualities
- Company Ownership: You’ll be contributing to Impulse's success, so you deserve to share in it. All full-time employees receive a meaningful equity allocation
- Flexible PTO Policy: We believe in work-life harmony more so than "balance". When you are happy & fulfilled outside of work, you will be more productive when you're in it. We offer generous PTO accrual to our full-time employees
