We're hiring our first in-house recruiter. Grounded is scaling fast — production has to roughly triple this year, and nearly every team is hiring: manufacturing engineers, technicians, mechanical and software engineers, sales, and operations. Today the founders run recruiting themselves. That doesn't scale.

You'll own recruiting end to end, embedded with the team in Detroit: partnering with the founders and technical leads to define roles, building pipeline, running a fast and human process, and closing candidates who have other offers. The hard part of this job is the technical and build-side searches — production, quality, and engineering talent. Those are the hires that take real judgment; the non-technical roles will take care of themselves once you have a process.

You'll also build the recruiting function itself — the systems, the metrics, the employer brand — and set the bar for how hiring operates as we grow.

What you'd actually do

Own full-cycle recruiting across manufacturing, engineering, software, field ops, and generalist roles — from first outreach to signed offer

Partner with hiring managers to define roles: write job descriptions that attract the right people and design interview loops that actually evaluate them well

Build and manage top-of-funnel pipeline through sourcing, events, referrals, and creative channels

Run a fast, human-centered recruiting process that delivers a best-in-class candidate experience

Create the systems and workflows for scale: ATS hygiene (we run Ashby), scorecards, candidate tracking, calibration loops

Track and report pipeline and hiring metrics — funnel conversion, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate — to keep individual searches and overall hiring on track

Partner with the founders on headcount planning: what we hire, in what order, and what it costs

Help shape our employer brand online and offline, and translate it into sharper outbound and sourcing messaging

Lead Technical Recruiter

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

Grounded