ABOUT THE JOB 

Anduril’s Talent Strategy, Experience & Enablement team is seeking a TA Onboarding Specialist to own the end-to-end onboarding experience for our Recruiters and Recruiting Coordinators. This is not a generic HR onboarding role — this person will design and execute an onboarding program purpose-built for TA professionals, ensuring every new recruiter and coordinator ramps faster, builds confidence in our tools and processes, and integrates into Anduril’s recruiting culture from day one. 

The right person for this role understands that onboarding a recruiter is fundamentally different from onboarding a software engineer or a finance hire. Recruiters need to learn our ATS, sourcing tools, and CRM. They need to understand our operating principles, interview methodology, and competency framework. They need to know the business lines they support, the hiring managers they’ll partner with, and the technical domains they’ll recruit for. And they need to build credibility with their stakeholders fast — because every week a recruiter is ramping is a week they’re not filling roles. 

You will be the primary point of contact for every new TA hire from offer acceptance through their first 90 days. You’ll partner closely with the Talent Enablement Program Manager on training content, the TA Systems team on tool access and proficiency, and recruiting leadership on business line immersion. If you thrive on building seamless experiences, obsess over the details that make someone feel set up for success, and want to directly impact how fast our recruiting engine scales, this role is for you. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO 

• TA-Specific Onboarding Ownership: Own the end-to-end onboarding experience for all new Recruiters and Recruiting Coordinators — from offer acceptance through 90-day check-in — ensuring a seamless, structured, and confidence-building ramp into their role.
• Recruiter Ramp Program Design: Design and maintain a TA-specific onboarding curriculum that covers ATS/CRM proficiency, sourcing tool training, interview methodology, operating principles and competency framework orientation, business line immersion, and hiring manager relationship-building.
• Role-Specific Onboarding Paths: Build and maintain structured 30/60/90 day onboarding plans for each TA role (Recruiter, Senior Recruiter, Recruiting Coordinator, Sourcer) with clear milestones, proficiency checkpoints, and success criteria.
• Pre-boarding & Day One Readiness: Coordinate pre-boarding logistics: system access, tool provisioning, team introductions, hiring manager connection, and first-week scheduling. Ensure no new hire shows up on day one without everything they need.
• TA Culture & Process Orientation: Conduct engaging TA-specific orientation sessions that go beyond generic company onboarding — instilling a deep understanding of Anduril’s recruiting culture, operating principles (Speed, Autonomy, Scale, Impact), the Behavioral Question Bank, and what “great” looks like in our hiring process.
• New Hire Liaison & Support: Serve as the primary point of contact for new TA hires, providing guidance, answering questions, and proactively identifying when someone is struggling or falling behind on ramp milestones.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner with the Talent Enablement Program Manager to ensure onboarding content stays current and aligned with broader enablement programs. Collaborate with TA Systems on tool training and access. Work with recruiting leadership on business line immersion scheduling.
• Onboarding Materials & Knowledge Base: Develop, refine, and maintain onboarding playbooks, checklists, guides, and resource libraries specific to the TA function. Ensure materials reflect current processes, tools, and best practices.
• Metrics & Continuous Improvement: Track onboarding completion rates, ramp time to first hire, new hire satisfaction scores, and hiring manager confidence in new recruiter readiness. Use data to identify gaps and continuously improve the onboarding experience.
• Feedback Loops & Iteration: Proactively identify friction points in the TA onboarding experience and drive improvements. Gather feedback from new hires, their managers, and their stakeholders to inform iteration. 

WORKS WITH

• Talent Enablement Program Manager (content alignment, training curriculum)
• TA Systems Senior Manager (tool access, ATS/CRM training)
• Recruiting Leadership & Functional Managers (business line immersion, hiring manager intros)
• People Operations (HR onboarding integration, compliance, benefits enrollment)
• New Recruiters & Recruiting Coordinators (primary audience) 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience in onboarding, people operations, program management, or talent acquisition enablement.
• Direct experience onboarding recruiting or talent acquisition professionals, or strong enough TA domain knowledge to design a credible ramp program for recruiters and coordinators.
• Strong knowledge of onboarding processes, procedures, and best practices — with a bias toward structured, milestone-driven programs over ad-hoc orientation.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple new hire cohorts simultaneously without dropping details.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities, with a customer-service mindset — new hires should feel supported, not processed.
• Strong attention to detail, ensuring accurate and thorough completion of all onboarding tasks, system access, and documentation.
• Proficiency with HRIS, applicant tracking systems (ATS), and recruiting tools — you’ll be teaching new hires to use these, so you need to know them yourself.
• Analytical mindset: ability to track onboarding metrics (ramp time, completion rates, satisfaction scores) and use data to drive improvement.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where the onboarding program needs to scale with hiring volume.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Prior experience in a recruiting or talent acquisition role — you’ve lived the ramp yourself and know what new recruiters actually need vs. what onboarding programs typically provide.
• Experience in the defense, aerospace, or a related high-tech industry where cleared talent, mission context, and technical domain knowledge are factors in recruiter ramp.
• Experience designing 30/60/90 day onboarding plans with structured milestones and proficiency checkpoints.
• Background in creating onboarding content: playbooks, quick-reference guides, video walkthroughs, or e-learning modules.
• Ability to work autonomously with discretion and minimal supervision — comfortable owning the full onboarding experience without waiting for direction.
• Prior event coordination experience (orientation sessions, team immersion days, cohort kickoffs). 

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Air Defense team builds robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, the Air Defense team provides mission critical capabilities to warfighters. From detection to tracking, identification, deterrence, and defeat, our family of networked sensors and effectors enables our customers to rapidly close the kill chain against a broad range of UAS threats. Working across product, engineering, business development, logistics, operations, and mission success, the Air Defense team develops, tests, deploys, and sustains the Anduril Air Defense Family of Systems in challenging operational environments worldwide.

ABOUT THE JOB

We are looking for a Mission Operations Engineer to join our USAF team. In this role, you will resource and help execute world-class technical training instruction to our partner components and their unique demands. Further, you will be the counter unmanned systems (cUAS) subject matter expert for components and help them resource realistic training and manage all hardware and software configuration of cUAS-peculiar equipment under the Anduril family of CUaS systems. Multi-functional work and proactive communication across internal teams will help you drive the end-to-end customer experience. If you are passionate about educating others on ground-breaking technology, contributing to the national security mission, interacting alongside professionals that span a wide-range of disciplines, and providing best-in-class training support, Anduril is interested in speaking with you.

We are a fast-growing company at the early stages of our growth and you will be expected to immediately develop and own material and projects during your time on the team which will have a significant impact on the Program’s trajectory. Anduril fosters a diverse, collaborative, culture with plenty of opportunities for ownership and professional growth.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Deliver training and education to a USAF component across the entire family-of-systems
• Contribute to training curriculums (eg, POIs) across a variety of platforms, ranging from computer-based simulations and knowledge portals to hands-on individual and collective training
• Collaborate with a USAF customers and own the cUAS problem for them by identifying knowledge gaps, training opportunities, and building solutions
• Create and update training material for Anduril and partner product capabilities
• Manage the end-to-end hardware and software configurations for all assigned cUAS equipment
• Assist in the sustainment and deployment of the Anduril family-of-systems

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8 years work experience
• Ownership mentality with strong initiative in managing your own work in isolated environments
• Resourcefulness. You should have a natural bias towards action and assume responsibility very early on in your Anduril career
• Independent collaborator. You should be comfortable representing Anduril at a remote site, co-located with the customer, and work well to push your customer’s capabilities while
• Training background. Ideally planning training events, developing curriculum and/or delivering training
• Comfort with communicating complex thoughts simply across various methods of communication and tools
• Enthusiasm towards transforming US and allied military capabilities with advanced technology
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Special Operations experience required, USAF experience highly preferred
• Willing to travel up to 50%

Position is full-time at the Washing D.C. office but requires travel to support customer delivery and training events.

Position Summary:

Are you a future-focused leader eager to reimagine the talent structures of the federal government? If so, Democracy Forward Foundation (“Democracy Forward”) is hiring a Director of the Future of Government Talent Program to join our team.

The next era of effective government depends on the teams behind it—how they’re structured, how they work, and who’s on them.

Democracy Forward is launching a bold, multi-year initiative to reinvent how the federal government organizes and deploys its talent—and we’re seeking a visionary and operationally grounded Director of the Future of Government Talent Program to lead this work.

This is a chance to lead a systems transformation effort that will design the teams, skills, and staffing models our federal government needs to deliver—now and in the decades ahead. By building modern talent and team structures across government functions, this initiative will help ensure the government is ready with the people and capacity to deliver results when it is ready to build and hire. 

This position is full-time. Democracy Forward’s office is located in Washington, DC. While this position offers flexibility to work remotely, it requires regular in-office presence eight (8) times per month (averaging 2 times per week) to effectively support the nature of the role. Remote candidates within the United States will also be considered. If a candidate is outside of the DC area, travel to DC is expected 1-2 times per quarter.

The Director of the Future of Government Talent Program will report to the Director of Democracy Works 250 and work closely with staff and fellows on the Civil Service Strong team.

Our North Star:

Democracy Works 250 is designing the teams—and finding the people—that will power a modern federal government.

This initiative will create the talent models and actually find the people needed to equip government with agile and interdisciplinary teams that can deliver on the policies and programs Americans expect. By transforming how government organizes its people, we aim to transform how government shows up for the people it serves.

Key Responsibilities:

Below are the key areas of responsibility for this role. The specifics of each responsibility may vary based on the needs of the organization and department.

Design Interdisciplinary, Future-Ready Government Teams:

• Lead a team of fellows to redesign process across key federal functions (e.g. HR, procurement, regulation, customer experience, technology, AI, public engagement).
• Build and manage a small internal team of HR and technical experts supporting cross-functional design and research.
• Support organizational leadership in cultivating a culture of accountability, inclusivity, and excellence, including through providing real-time support and skills-development for your team.
• Convene and collaborate with external domain experts (AI, regulatory, HR, tech, etc.) to co-design staffing models that reflect how modern delivery actually works.
• Ensure new team models are agile, tech-enabled, interdisciplinary, and built to solve real problems, not replicate outdated org charts.

Build a National Strategy to Source and Prepare Talent:

• Develop and implement a strategy to identify and recruit mission-ready talent from federal alumni and state/local leaders to private-sector innovators and community-rooted practitioners.
• Define the skills, values, and lived experience needed for 21st-century public service and shape the strategies that bring those people in.

Oversee Development of a Civic Talent Platform & Training Curriculum:

• Lead the development or procurement of a digital platform to match individuals with redesigned teams and government missions.
• Lead partnership development with organizations to provide training on key, cross-cutting skills for future talent.

Co-Design with Communities and Institutions:

• Build and manage partnerships with academic institutions, public interest orgs, workforce programs, and civic tech networks.
• Lead co-design sessions with partners across the ecosystem—bringing in the lived expertise of those who know what functional teams must look like (e.g., regulators, procurement specialists, technologists).

Bridge Strategy Across Projects:

• Align the talent initiative with the other projects in Democracy Works 250: federal oral history project, personnel policy, and agency redesigning efforts.
• Collaborate with legal, research, and communications partners to test, refine, and package talent transformation and recruitment efforts.
• Contribute to and collaborate across other DW250 projects.

Who You Are:

A Builder with Bold Imagination:

• You design what doesn’t yet exist and know how to lead a team and partnerships to get there.

Fluent in Talent—from Government and Beyond:

• You understand the complexity of public sector hiring and the dynamism of modern private-sector team structures and you can translate across both worlds.

A Strategic Recruiter and Workforce Planner:

• You know how to define the teams a mission requires, find the people to staff them, and remove the barriers that keep good people out of government.

Collaborative and Equity-Driven:

• You bring humility, inclusion, and shared ownership to every partnership. You believe better government starts with better people—and better systems to support them.

Qualifications:

We recognize that strong candidates may not meet 100% of the qualifications listed. If you believe you can contribute meaningfully to our team, we encourage you to apply.

• 10+ years of experience in workforce development, organizational design, talent strategy, or public sector innovation.
• Experience managing small, high-capacity teams in cross-functional and collaborative environments.
• Deep understanding of both federal hiring systems and modern, mission-aligned talent models.
• Demonstrated ability to build distributed strategies and work across technical, policy, and community-based teams.
• Excellent project management, facilitation, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Well-developed collaborative and interpersonal skills including demonstrated self-awareness, commitment to diversity and inclusivity, and ability to work with colleagues and stakeholders across diverse cultures and backgrounds.

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

• This role will require occasional travel for team retreats, conferences, and partner convenings.
• This role may involve sitting for extended periods and working on a computer. Reasonable accommodations will be provided as needed.

The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $170,000 plus excellent benefits. Compensation is commensurate with experience.