Talent Acquisition Partner, Space Systems

6+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, with at least three years sourcing and closing senior engineering hires.

Demonstrated ability to run a complex requisition portfolio across multiple engineering disciplines, including hard-to-fill technical specializations.

Highly consultative orientation with senior hiring leaders — comfortable challenging assumptions, recalibrating profiles, and offering candid pushback when market signals warrant it.

Track record of closing senior engineering hires (Staff, Principal, Director-level) end-to-end, including navigating complex offer dynamics.

Mastery of LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, GitHub, and modern sourcing platforms, with practiced fluency in an applicant tracking system such as Greenhouse.

Quantitative grasp of recruiting performance metrics — pass-through rates, pipeline velocity, time-to-fill — and the diagnostic instinct to know when a search needs a different angle.

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans

Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution

Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off

16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave

Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Planet's Space Systems organization designs, builds, and operates the satellites that image Earth every day.

Behind every spacecraft is a team of engineers — hardware, embedded, RF, mission operations, flight software, optical and payload, mechanical, and ground systems — whose work directly determines how much of the planet we see and how clearly we see it.

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner, Space Systems, you will own the hiring strategy and execution for one of Planet's most technically demanding and mission-critical functions.

You will partner directly with engineering and operations leaders across the Space Systems organization to build pipelines, run searches, and deliver hires from individual contributors through senior engineering leaders.

You'll work closely with sourcing partners and other members of the Talent Acquisition team to execute against Planet's most strategic technical hiring priorities.