At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
Our People team is responsible for supporting Relativity’s best-in-class team, as well as strategically managing our hiring pipelines to help us find the very best to join our company. On this team, you are given the opportunity to work across many teams and projects, while also helping to set the tone for Relativity’s company values and culture. In addition to recruiting, you will also support employer brand efforts, as well as networking events, career fairs and more.
We are seeking a Lead, Technical Recruiter to join our Talent Acquisition team and drive end-to-end hiring initiatives across our Manufacturing Engineering teams. You will build collaborative relationships with hiring leaders to understand hiring goals and develop recruiting strategies for you and your team to effectively meet them.
About the Role:
- Manage and mentor team of technical recruiters, fostering a collaborative, high performing team environment.
- Provide directional leadership and recruitment strategy for a diverse range of roles, from entry to senior level, across multiple teams and/or entire business units and advise senior management on recruiting trends and talent market dynamics
- You set KPIs for the team and provide actionable insights into recruitment performance. Your leadership is rooted in metrics.
- You are a subject matter expert in manufacturing engineering recruiting and partner closely with senior leadership and hiring managers on defining and identifying what top talent looks like in this field.
- Develop inventive, tailored, and dynamic sourcing strategies for engaging passive talent, and teach your methods to your team.
- Provide a deep understanding of your and your team’s roles, how they impact business objectives and program milestones, and serve as consultant to hiring leaders.
- You will develop ideas and strategies to improve the funnel, improve and build equitable interview processes, research and implement new tools, and stay on top of the latest technology trends in the industry as well as competitive market data.
This is an onsite role. You can expect work 5 days a week onsite at our Long Beach Headquarters.
About You:
- 6+ years of full lifecycle technical recruiting experience at fast-scaling companies and 1+ years of management experience with multiple direct reports (with preference for in-house experience)
- Extensive experience in recruiting tools and skilled in optimizing their use across your team
- Extensive experience and track record of sourcing passive candidates and filling senior-level roles
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior leaders in developing and implementing hiring strategies
- Ability to influence hiring strategies through reporting and analyzing internal and market recruiting data
- Passionate about mentoring early-career recruiters and providing them with coaching and guidance
- Excellent communication skills, enabling you to connect with individuals at all levels
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience recruiting for manufacturing engineering and technical teams that have scaled quickly
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].
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Relativity Space Long Beach, California, USA Office
We have two sites in Long Beach, CA's Space Beach: "The Wormhole," a 1M sq. ft. factory, once Boeing C-17's home. Nearby, "The Portal" supports Aeon R engine production for our Terran R launch vehicle.
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