Lead Recruiter

What You’ll Do:

• Own full-cycle recruiting for highly specialized aerospace and engineering roles across GNC, flight software, ground software, FPGA, electric propulsion, optical systems, payload, systems engineering, and business functions
• Partner directly with hiring managers and founders to scope roles, define success criteria, and build structured interview processes that move quickly without sacrificing quality
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines for both active and anticipated hiring needs, using a mix of LinkedIn Recruiter, JuiceboxAI, referrals, and direct sourcing
• Administer and continuously improve our Greenhouse ATS, including interview kits, scorecards, workflows, and reporting
• Own compensation benchmarking and offer strategy using Pave and Carta, partnering with leadership on salary band construction
• Develop and deliver interviewer training, scorecard calibration, and hiring manager enablement to raise the bar on interview quality across the company
• Maintain Albedo's hiring documentation and process library in Notion, ensuring the recruiting function scales without losing structure
• Contribute to employer branding and careers-site content, including outbound messaging, candidate-facing collateral, and conference or campus strategy
• Track and report on funnel metrics such as time-to-fill, pass-through rates, offer acceptance, sourcing channel effectiveness, using the data to drive decisions and improve processes

Your Ideal Skills and Experience:

• 7 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with meaningful time recruiting deep technical ICs (hardware, firmware, systems, or flight software preferred)
• Prior experience in aerospace, defense, hard tech, or another highly specialized technical domain; ITAR/export-control awareness is a strong plus
• Demonstrated success hiring into small, specialized talent pools where sourcing creativity and messaging craft matter more than volume
• Fluency with Greenhouse (or comparable ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter, and modern sourcing tools (JuiceboxAI, Gem, etc.)
• Experience partnering directly with founders or executive-level hiring managers; comfortable pushing back with data when a role scope or offer strategy needs reworking
• Strong compensation fluency; hands-on experience with Pave, Carta, or similar tools
• Startup experience at the 30 - 100 person stage; comfort operating with ambiguity, wearing multiple hats, and building process where none exists
• Excellent written communication - your outreach gets responses and your candidate experience reflects well on the company

Salary Range:

• $164,143 - $187,827 per year

Compensation and Benefits for Full-Time Roles:

• Employee friendly equity compensation
• 4% direct matching 401k
• Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage
• Parental leave and childcare coverage
• Flexible vacation and sick time from day one
• 12 company holidays
• $100 monthly wellness benefit
• Relocation package if not based in Denver

The final compensation package is subject to change if the candidate's experience and company need drive a different job level than originally slated for the position.

Albedo does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Albedo employees. Albedo is not responsible for any fees or overhead related to unsolicited resumes.

Additional Requirements: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. All persons hired will be required to be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Albedo is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Relocation: Relocation support for this position is available

US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED