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Senior Talent Acquisition Manager

Gitai · Los Angeles, California, United States · On-site

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About Gitai

Robotics Startup for Space Development. Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

GITAI is a vertically integrated space and defense company building the next generation of hardware for low-Earth-orbit missions.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in an agency, startup, or high-growth company
  • 1+ year of in-house recruiting experience at an early-stage startup, Series B or earlier
  • A proven record of identifying, engaging, and closing difficult-to-find candidates, including passive talent
  • Experience recruiting technical roles and across multiple functions. Experience in space, aerospace, defense, robotics, advanced manufacturing, or another hard-technology industry is strongly preferred
  • A track record of building new sourcing channels, talent communities, partnerships, or outreach programs from scratch
  • The ability to learn unfamiliar technical fields quickly enough to run credible searches and evaluate candidate relevance
More about this role

GITAI is a vertically integrated space and defense company building the next generation of hardware for low-Earth-orbit missions.

At our core is the space robotics technology that has defined GITAI from the beginning. A small, highly capable engineering team applies that foundation across satellite buses, in-orbit servicing robotics, and mission hardware for applications such as Earth observation. Today, a major focus of our work is supporting U.S. national security missions, particularly through proliferated LEO satellite constellations and other next-generation space systems.

We design, build, integrate, and test much of our hardware in-house. Electrical, mechanical, software, manufacturing, integration, and test teams work closely together, allowing a small team to own complete systems rather than isolated components. This vertical integration helps us move quickly, learn directly from hardware, and shorten the path from architecture to a working system.

We are still early. The systems, the company, and the market are all being built at the same time. Requirements change, technical problems are often ambiguous, and many answers do not yet exist. We are looking for exceptional...

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