What are the responsibilities and job description for the Talent Acquisition & People Operations Coordinator position at Quindar?
About Quindar
Quindar builds modern software for satellite operations, helping teams operate spacecraft with greater speed, clarity, and reliability. We are a mission-driven team working at the intersection of aerospace, software, and operations, and we are growing thoughtfully as we scale.
About The Role
Quindar is looking for a People Operations & Recruiting Coordinator to support recruiting, sourcing, candidate experience, and core people operations. This role is ideal for someone who is highly organized, detail-oriented, and excited to help build strong candidate pipelines while supporting a thoughtful employee experience.
You will help keep our recruiting process running smoothly, support hiring teams, coordinate interviews, maintain recruiting systems, and identify potential candidates who are excited about space, software, and mission-driven work. You will also support onboarding, people operations administration, company events and team programs as needed.
What You’ll Do
Quindar builds modern software for satellite operations, helping teams operate spacecraft with greater speed, clarity, and reliability. We are a mission-driven team working at the intersection of aerospace, software, and operations, and we are growing thoughtfully as we scale.
About The Role
Quindar is looking for a People Operations & Recruiting Coordinator to support recruiting, sourcing, candidate experience, and core people operations. This role is ideal for someone who is highly organized, detail-oriented, and excited to help build strong candidate pipelines while supporting a thoughtful employee experience.
You will help keep our recruiting process running smoothly, support hiring teams, coordinate interviews, maintain recruiting systems, and identify potential candidates who are excited about space, software, and mission-driven work. You will also support onboarding, people operations administration, company events and team programs as needed.
What You’ll Do
- Source candidates across LinkedIn, professional communities, job boards, referrals, university networks, and other relevant talent channels.
- Build and maintain targeted candidate lists for current and future roles, especially across technical, operational, and mission-aligned talent.
- Support outbound recruiting campaigns, including candidate research, outreach drafts, response tracking, and follow-up.
- Coordinate interviews across candidates, hiring managers, and interview teams.
- Communicate with candidates throughout the hiring process with warmth, clarity, and professionalism.
- Maintain accurate candidate data and keep recruiting systems organized and up to date.
- Support job postings, applicant tracking, resume review workflows, and recruiting operations.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements, target profiles, and sourcing priorities.
- Support the onboarding experience for new hires by coordinating logistics, preparing documentation, and helping employees get set up for success from day one.
- Assist with employee lifecycle administration, including maintaining records, supporting personnel changes, and helping ensure people operations processes remain organized and compliant.
- Help plan and coordinate company events, team programs, and offsites that strengthen culture, engagement, and connection across the organization.
- Experience in recruiting coordination, sourcing, people operations, HR administration, talent acquisition support, or a similar role.
- Comfort identifying and engaging candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, databases, communities, referrals, or other sourcing channels.
- Strong research, organization, and follow-through skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in candidate-facing communication.
- High attention to detail and discretion when working with confidential information.
- Comfort using tools such as applicant tracking systems, Slack, LinkedIn Recruiter, or similar platforms.
- Interest in startups, aerospace, software, or mission-driven technology companies.
- Experience sourcing for technical, engineering, product, operations, aerospace, or software roles.
- Familiarity with Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, HireEZ, or similar recruiting tools.
- Experience supporting outbound recruiting campaigns or onboarding processes.
- Interest in building inclusive, thoughtful, and scalable people practices.
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.
- 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C.
- 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
- We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!
- We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
- Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
- We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
- Each year we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.
- Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!
Salary : $70,000 - $90,000