# Head of Talent at Orbital

- Company: Orbital
- What the company does: Orbital is building the first space-based AI compute infrastructure. Unlimited solar power. Infinite cooling. First launch 2027. Backed by South Park Commons and a16z speedrun.
- Company website: https://orbital.inc
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $185K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/orbital/ef1f0e60-3b30-4505-a193-c0474f31aed5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/orbital-head-of-talent/

## About the role

Here, you'll be part of changing how the deals behind the largest asset class get transacted, and will help shape the future of real estate. The strategy. The company-wide hiring plan, built with the CEO, COO and CRO from growth targets. It is your role to define how that plan gets delivered, and you will have full autonomy to do it. From team to tools to operations.

## What they're looking for

- A scale-up track record. You have built or materially scaled a talent function inside a VC-backed technology company through a comparable arc, roughly 100 to 300 people
- Precision over volume. Your track record is low-volume, high-calibre hiring. You can point to specific hires that changed a company's trajectory and explain exactly how you found, engaged and closed them
- GTM depth in the US market. You have personally owned go-to-market hiring across AE, CS, BDR, RevOps and Marketing, and you know the New York commercial talent market: who the strong people are, what they cost and what moves them
- Executive search craft. You have designed and run targeted headhunt processes end to end for people who were not looking: market mapping, target lists, multi-touch engagement, assessment and close. You can walk us through the process, not just the outcome
- Executive-team fluency. You hold your own on commercial strategy with a CRO, technical org design with a CTO, planning with a COO, and the talent narrative with a CEO. You operate as a peer who brings a position, not a service provider taking a brief
- US and UK experience. You have run a distributed recruiting team across US and UK time zones with a single operating rhythm, one quality bar and clear accountability in both markets

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