The Role
Leads full-cycle executive and senior leadership recruiting across engineering, manufacturing, business operations, and corporate functions. Partners with executives and hiring managers to define hiring needs, develop targeted search strategies, engage passive candidates, assess leadership talent, manage candidate relationships, provide market intelligence, and lead offer negotiations. Requires extensive executive recruiting experience and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-growing, technically complex aerospace company.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 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
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 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
Additional Information:
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
About
Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of recruiting experience, including success recruiting senior leadership and executive-level talent
- Experience managing full-cycle recruiting processes for complex, high-impact roles
- 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 executive recruiting experience within aerospace, defense, space, advanced hardware, or other technically complex industries
- Success recruiting VP-level, C-suite, and functional leadership positions
- Established network of senior talent across engineering, operations, manufacturing, and corporate functions
- Experience in a high-growth startup or scaling technology company
- Familiarity with executive search methodologies, compensation benchmarking, and competitive talent mapping
- U.S. Person status or eligibility to obtain an applicable export license under ITAR/EAR requirements
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The Company
What We Do
Impulse enables low-cost and nimble last-mile space payload delivery - access any orbit, reach other worlds.
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