Talent Acquisition

Our mission is to make a world where everyone has access to delivery. Where goods move as freely as information moves today.

This is possible. Today the cost of moving on a scooter is 2/km. Thats the cost of moving a 150kg mass from point A to B. Were bringing that mass down to less than 5kgs concurrently bringing the cost down to 10 paise/km. This is how we make deliveries a reality. This is how we create a world where were doing billions of deliveries per day.

The tech is not there. The current cost of drone delivery is 100/km. We need to completely redefine the way things are done here. Were building the worlds most efficient aircraft from the ground-up and scaling that up to beyond anything the aerospace sector has ever seen. This cannot be an iterative process. We have to tear down all conventions and build everything up from scratch.

To do this we need nothing less than the best engineers. The ones who care about building something fundamentally different who are deeply curious about understanding the fundamentals of everything theyre working on who are dreamers that believe in the impossible.

The Talent Acquisition Manager is responsible for bringing the technical and operational talent into Airbound and building the recruiting systems that let them thrive once they arrive. This is a first hire role. You will build recruiting from scratch owning full-cycle hiring and the onboarding experience that sets new joiners up to succeed in an aerospace company that moves fast and produces at volumes the sector has never attempted. You will work directly with leadership engineering manufacturing and business to solve hiring problems that do not have a template yet.

• Own full-cycle recruiting for varied roles ranging from critical technical competencies like composites and avionics to policy makers and marketing

• Build and nurture candidate pipelines through direct outreach events and networking in manufacturing aviation and drone communities

• Partner with leadership to define and prioritize hiring needs across engineering production and operations

• Write job descriptions and employer branding content that reflect how we actually think and work

• Set up onboarding orientation and offboarding and keep them running cleanly as the team scales

• Run a structured fair and fast interview process and improve it as you learn

• Track recruiting metrics like time to fill and quality of hire and use them to tighten the process

• Maintain accurate people data and documentation as the team grows across locations

• 3 years of hands-on experience recruiting for technical roles in manufacturing engineering or hardware

• Sharp judgment: you flag hiring risks team gaps and people issues in real time before they become problems

• Disciplined and process-driven with a bias toward clean documentation and tight operational control

• Proven track record building and scaling recruiting processes from scratch in fast-paced hardware or operational environments

• Excellent communication documentation and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Comfortable with Google Suite Notion and other collaboration tools

• Previous experience as the first or early recruiting hire at a startup building the function from nothing

• Understanding of the hardware manufacturing or aerospace talent landscape and what it takes to recruit for it

Work location: Hoskote Bangalore (Headquarters)

• Comprehensive health insurance to keep you and your loved ones covered

• Relocation assistance and a daily travel stipend to ease your commute

• Advanced salary credit to support you when you need it

A driven passionate team where youll have room to grow and thrive - this is more than just a job its a rare opportunity to build something meaningful from the ground up

• In-office role working alternate Saturdays.

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