Talent Acquisition Partner, Shield AI
EMEA
Building AI aircraft pilots
Job no longer available
Building AI aircraft pilots
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a strategic talent acquisition partner driving full cycle hiring for both engineering and go to market talent in high-growth tech environments (aerospace, defence, or robotics desirable)
- Demonstrated success supporting new market entries and scaling teams at pace across the EMEA region
- Strong credibility working with senior leaders and executives as a trusted talent advisor and business partner
- Deep understanding of EMEA talent dynamics, sourcing strategies, and competitive intelligence
- Highly consultative, commercially minded, and comfortable operating with ambiguity
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Principal Strategic Talent Acquisition Partner to help power our next phase of growth across EMEA. This is a high-impact, business-critical role at the heart of Shield’s AI international expansion—supporting new market entries, building and scaling best-in-class software and sales organisations, and partnering with senior leaders to shape our future
- This is not a transactional recruiting role. You will operate as a strategic advisor, market expert, and builder—owning how talent enables scale across diverse EMEA markets
- Partner closely with senior and executive-level stakeholders to understand business objectives, growth plans, and capability gaps
- Translate market entry and growth plan into scalable, data-driven regional talent acquisition strategies
- Act as a thought partner and advisor on talent trends, market intelligence, and competitive hiring strategies
- Advise leaders on market feasibility from a talent perspective (availability, cost, timing, and risk)
- Own the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle for all roles including senior, critical, and hard-to-hire roles
- Partner to design and execute sourcing strategies that attract high-impact engineering and commercial talent across the EMEA region
- Shape local hiring approaches while maintaining a consistent global hiring bar
- Act as an EMEA ambassador for our employer brand, ensuring we are positioned as an employer of choice in the region
- Partner with Branding, Comms, and Leadership to shape and localise our employer value proposition for different EMEA countries
- Identify and activate employer branding opportunities (events, content, communities, referrals, social presence)
- Ensure inclusive, consistent, and authentic candidate experience that reinforces our brand and values at every touchpoint
- Use data to forecast hiring needs, track progress, and continuously optimise our recruitment performance
- Improve TA processes, tools, and ways of partnering to support speed, quality, and scale
- Be a visible voice for talent across the EMEA leadership community
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Self-driving vehicles present enormous benefits for the transportation industry, with the potential to increase the safety and efficiency of cars, trucks, and commercial airlines. However, such technological innovation is less present within the military transportation sector, despite the benefits that AI piloting would produce for the operation of drones and aircraft.
Shield AI is developing Hivemind, an AI-driven pilot that can operate drones and aircraft autonomously, without needing GPS, communications, or pilots. In addition to navigation, the technology is also designed to facilitate indoor building clearance, integrated defense breaching, and has the ability to learn and autonomously execute aircraft missions.
Whilst similar AI-driven pilot software has begun to appear in Chinese military research programs, Shield AI's target is the US. By developing fully autonomous piloting integrations for any type of aircraft, the company aims to future-proof the US military without the need for bespoke aircraft design. It has generated massive amounts of funding to support continued scaling and R&D efforts.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Mar 2025
$240m
LATE VC
Oct 2023
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.0bn
Company benefits
- Excellent Medical Coverage
- Mental Health Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Leave
- Pet Insurance
- Flexible Work Hours
- Gym Discount (San Diego)
- Onsite Gym (DC)
- Free Parking
- Competitive Compensation
- 401K Services and Match
- Stock Benefits
Company HQ
Core-Columbia, San Diego, CA
Leadership
Ryan Tseng
(Co-Founder & President)Experience as CEO, CTO and Founder of WiPower from 2006 to 2010. Technical Lead for Wireless Power Program for Qualcomm from 2010 to 2013.
Brandon Tseng
(Co-Founder & President)Naval Officer for the US Navy from 2009 to 2015.
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