Responsibilities
- Performance & Talent Programs:
- Own the performance management cycle, including timelines, tools, and calibration sessions
- Design and maintain succession planning frameworks, identifying high-potential talent and flight risks
- Build and maintain career paths, leveling guides, and competency frameworks
- Select and manage training and development vendors
- Design and coordinate leadership and manager development programs
- Oversee delivery and tracking of required training (program ownership, not compliance policy)
- Track and analyze headcount and talent trends
- Partner with Finance on workforce planning inputs and assumptions
- Manage hiring approval workflows to ensure alignment with workforce plans
- Own compensation philosophy, structure, and frameworks
- Maintain salary bands and leveling alignment
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in talent management, organizational development, or related HR functions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- Proven experience designing and implementing talent strategies in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strong background in performance management, leadership development, and succession planning.
- Exceptional project management and organizational skills with a focus on execution.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to use data to inform strategy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Certification in talent management or organizational development (e.g., SHRM-SCP, CPTD, or similar).
- Familiarity with talent management software and HRIS systems.
- Knowledge of Radford leveling and compensation frameworks.
What We Offer!
- Relocation assistance
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance through a PPO plan (100% premium paid for individuals, ~70% for dependents)
- Company-paid life, AD&D, long-term disability, and short-term disability insurances
- Parental leave
- Generous PTO + 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) matching up to 6%
- Lunch and snacks provided every day, including accommodations for all dietary restrictions
- Monthly wellness stipend
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Yearly education stipend to obtain certifications or take classes in your field
- Fun events, swag, and the occasional airship ride
- An opportunity to change the world and work with some of the smartest and the most talented experts from different fields
Compliance Requirements
- Criminal background check clearance
- Drug test clearance wherever applicable
Top Skills
What We Do
Lighter Than Air (LTA) Research is an aerospace research and development company building experimental and certified manned and remotely piloted airships. We are developing advanced technologies to dramatically increase the capabilities and lower the cost of 21st century airships. With these next-generation airships, we strive to improve humanitarian aid delivery and reduce carbon emissions, while providing economic opportunity and new jobs to Americans. LTA airships will have the ability to complement — and even speed up — humanitarian disaster response and relief efforts, especially in remote areas that cannot be easily accessed by plane and boat due to limited or destroyed infrastructure. We ultimately aim to create a family of aircraft with zero emissions that, when used for shipping goods and moving people, would substantially reduce the global carbon footprint of aviation.
