Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Who we are:

NewSpace Research & Technologies (NRT) is a leading developer of cyber-physical and robotics systems for the aerospace and defence industry. Founded in 2017, NRT today operates across 12 facilities with an employee base of over 500 people. An engineering powerhouse with 70% of its workforce dedicated to R&D in state-of-the-art facilities, NRT is building cutting-edge technologies for persistent UAVs, swarm robotics and AI packages.

NRT is ISO 9001, AS9100D and Great Place to Work certified, authorized for defence manufacturing by DPIIT, and holds 2 patents along with over 10 proprietary technology stacks. Additionally, NRT's products hold several records, including the first operational swarm acquired by any national defence force, highest multirotor altitude at 7000m, highest payload of 25 kgs carried at 6 km AMSL, and the Asian record for the longest solar-powered flight at 27 hours. NRT is also the first Indian company to work under a CRADA with USAFRL since August 2019 and the first to demonstrate swarm flights in Japan.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The Talent Acquisition Specialist helps in identifying key talent and also acts as a trusted advisor on talent insights to help the business make intelligent workforce decisions

• Create and implement long term talent engagement strategy: identifying target organisations, focused diverse talent pool and critical skill segments
• Talent Assessment and recommendations of location studies, competitor analysis, skill assessment and custom reports
• Project engagement and delivery: Act as trusted advisor on talent insights to help the business make intelligent workforce decisions.
• Should be able to source, screen and onboard key talent in a niche market segment in a fast paced ecosystem

Must have skills:

• 3-7 years of experience in Talent Acquisition in a startup ecosystem
• Ability to prioritize and multitask
• Demonstrate interpersonal and relationship skills including the capacity to successfully relate to all hierarchical levels which includes verbal and written communication.

Good to have skills:

• A proven track record of research/market intelligence
• Strong stakeholder management experience
• Strong numerical, analytical and strategic thinking skills, and sound business / commercial acumen
• Hands-on recruiting experience in the aerospace domain
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter; ability to work independently
• Strong sense of ownership; ability to take responsibility for the full recruitment life cycle

Basic Requirement (education & relevant experience):

• Bachelors in Engineering/MBA in Human Resource Management