Talent Acquisition Partner
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About the Role
The Exploration Company is seeking an Aerospace Talent Acquisition Partner to drive strategic hiring across technical domains. The role involves full-lifecycle recruiting, proactive sourcing, and building pipelines for aerospace roles.
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Responsibilities
- Proactively source and engage top tier candidates across from within the Aerospace industry
- Build and maintain deep pipelines of passive candidates through direct headhunting, referrals, LinkedIn Recruiter, industry databases, alumni networks, and niche online communities
- Conduct in depth candidate outreach tailored to individuals with unique or hard to find skill sets
- Use a data driven approach to prioritize critical roles and identify sourcing bottlenecks
- Own the full cycle recruitment process: intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, feedback loops, offers, and closing
- Provide an exceptional candidate experience with consistent, clear communication and personalized engagement
- Collaborate with hiring managers to create compelling job descriptions, hiring criteria, and structured interview processes
- Lead closing strategies and compensation negotiations, ensuring alignment with candidate expectations and company goals
- Represent The Exploration Company at conferences, industry meetups, university programs, and online events
- Develop targeted outreach campaigns and recruitment marketing initiatives to attract top technical talent
- Stay current on industry trends, compensation data, competitor movements, and labor market shifts in aerospace, defense, and emerging tech
- Map organizations and talent pools, particularly in stealth companies or niche fields
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in technical recruiting within UAE Aerospace
- In house recruitment experience
- Demonstrated success headhunting rare or passive candidates in a competitive talent market
- Experience hiring for roles such as spacecraft systems engineers, propulsion engineers, GNC specialists, mission control experts, flight software engineers, or similar
- Strong grasp of technical skills, job functions, and skill differentiators in space related domains
- Adept at building trust quickly with both candidates and internal stakeholders
- Resilient, proactive, organized, and mission driven
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About the Company
- The Exploration Company is developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle.
- Our Talent Acquisition team is seeking an Aerospace Talent Acquisition Partner with full lifecycle recruiting experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively source and engage top tier candidates across from within the Aerospace industry
- Build and maintain deep pipelines of passive candidates through direct headhunting, referrals, LinkedIn Recruiter, industry databases, alumni networks, and niche online communities
- Conduct in depth candidate outreach tailored to individuals with unique or hard to find skill sets
- Use a data driven approach to prioritize critical roles and identify sourcing bottlenecks
- Own the full cycle recruitment process: intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, feedback loops, offers, and closing
- Provide an exceptional candidate experience with consistent, clear communication and personalized engagement
- Collaborate with hiring managers to create compelling job descriptions, hiring criteria, and structured interview processes
- Lead closing strategies and compensation negotiations, ensuring alignment with candidate expectations and company goals
- Represent The Exploration Company at conferences, industry meetups, university programs, and online events
- Develop targeted outreach campaigns and recruitment marketing initiatives to attract top technical talent
- Stay current on industry trends, compensation data, competitor movements, and labor market shifts in aerospace, defense, and emerging tech
- Map organizations and talent pools, particularly in stealth companies or niche fields
Your Profile
- 3+ years of experience in technical recruiting within UAE Aerospace
- In house recruitment experience
- Demonstrated success headhunting rare or passive candidates in a competitive talent market
- Experience hiring for roles such as spacecraft systems engineers, propulsion engineers, GNC specialists, mission control experts, flight software engineers, or similar
- Strong grasp of technical skills, job functions, and skill differentiators in space related domains
- Adept at building trust quickly with both candidates and internal stakeholders
- Resilient, proactive, organized, and mission driven
- Lead full cycle recruitment from role intake and sourcing strategy to closing
- Build candidate journeys that reflect our values, mission, and international culture
- Advise hiring teams on market benchmarks, availability of skills, and trends in UAE aerospace recruitment
Why you should join us!
- We’re Agile we make decisions fast whilst keeping our goals and systems in mind
- We’re Open and Collaborative we are transparent about risks and obstacles, so that we can cooperate to overcome them
- We have a lot of Fun we refuel our energy knowing we are democratising space.
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