Principal Technical Recruiter, Skylo
$180-200k
+ Stock option based equity program
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Satellite-based device connectivity
Job no longer available
Satellite-based device connectivity
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$180-200k
+ Stock option based equity program
Office located in Mountain View, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To be the most efficient way to connect anything, anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- A technical educational background is a plus. We don't need the credential for its own sake — we need the fluency. What you've done with that foundation (translate it into smarter sourcing, sharper technical screens, more credible candidate conversations) is what we're hiring for
- 8+ years of in-house technical recruiting, with your most significant work at startups or scaleups in high-velocity, scaling orgs. Agency recruiting earlier in your career is welcome as a foundation, but you've spent years in-house owning outcomes, not handing off candidates
- You've built or overhauled a recruiting function or system — not contributed to one, owned one. Tell us about the system you stood up, the function you scaled, or the broken funnel you rebuilt, and the results it produced
- Deep partnership with hiring managers and executives: examples of how you've shaped a role definition, redesigned an interview loop, advised leadership on talent strategy, or killed a search that wasn't going to work before it wasted the org's time
- You operate as a force multiplier. You've raised the bar for other recruiters — through mentorship, calibration, or the standards and tooling you put in place — without needing a management title to do it
- Expert-level AI fluency in your daily workflow. We're not looking for "I've tried ChatGPT" — we want someone who already designs AI-accelerated workflows: drafting outreach, synthesizing candidate signals, running boolean strategy, accelerating screening, and teaching others to do the same. AI workflow integration is the floor; setting the standard is the bar. There’s no ceiling at Skylo...the latest tech & tokens are readily available here!
- Comfort defining, hitting, and reporting on KPIs (pipeline velocity, offer acceptance, time-to-hire) without losing sight of quality. Numbers without judgment is a trap; judgment without numbers is a guess — and you're trusted to tell the difference
- Skill in identifying niche technical talent across software, hardware, and satellite communications domains. You don't need a satellite background — you need to learn the vocabulary fast and source with precision in uncharted territory, and bring others up to speed behind you
- A track record closing complex, senior, and executive offers by communicating mission, scope, and equity value — especially with passive candidates who weren't actively looking
- Bias toward proactive improvement: when you see a broken step in the funnel, you fix it instead of working around it — and you make the fix stick for everyone
- Familiarity with Ashby and Metaview is a plus; experience with comparable modern ATS/interview-intelligence tools is fine — we care more about the instinct to use the tools well than the specific logos on your resume
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Principal Technical Recruiter to be the most expert recruiter in the building — the person who owns our hardest searches, owns the system the rest of the team hires within, and sets the bar everyone else calibrates against. This is the senior-most individual-contributor seat in Talent Acquisition. You won't be handed a playbook to run; you'll be the one who writes it, sharpens it, and teaches it
- You'll take the searches that are too ambiguous, too critical, or too senior to hand to anyone else — leadership roles, deeply technical roles in uncharted domains, the hires that change the trajectory of a team
- And as you do, you'll make the entire function better: more predictive loops, sharper calibration, faster closes, and a candidate experience that reflects exactly what we're building
- When leadership needs a read on the talent market, on whether a role is scoped to win, or on where the hiring system is quietly leaking — you're the person they ask first
- Own the most critical, ambiguous, and senior searches at Skylo — leadership and executive hires, founding-level technical roles, and the searches in domains no one has recruited for here before. The harder it is, the more it's yours
- Own the hiring system end to end — interview architecture, scorecard and rubric design, sourcing methodology, intake standards, calibration practice, and candidate communications. Not pieces you improve, but the system you're accountable for
- Be the bar-raiser. Set the standard for what a great search, a great loop, and a great close look like at Skylo — and raise the level of every recruiter and hiring manager around you through coaching, calibration, and leading by example
- Partner with founders, executives, and functional leaders as a trusted advisor — on role definition, org design implications, market reality, and comp positioning. Push back when a search isn't scoped to succeed, and bring the data to back it up
- Drive Skylo's AI-native recruiting practice. Don't just use Claude (we use Cowork), Ashby's AI features, and Metaview — design the workflows the team adopts, evaluate the next tool before anyone asks, and set the standard for what AI-accelerated recruiting looks like here
- Own talent strategy and pipeline planning in partnership with leadership — anticipate the hires we'll need before the reqs open, build pipelines ahead of demand, and surface market, comp, and structural insights that change decisions earlier
- Hit aggressive velocity and offer-acceptance targets on your own searches while holding — and defining — the quality bar. Both matter, neither replaces the other, and you set what "the bar" means
- Champion a candidate experience that reflects Skylo's mission and brand at the highest-stakes moments — the executive close, the passive candidate who wasn't looking, the offer that has to land
Our take
Skylo connects Internet of Things (IoT) devices to satellite networks using the cellular-based Narrowband IoT protocol. It is considered one of the world’s most affordable and ubiquitous networks that connects any machine or sensor.
The company stands out for being the first to leverage the aforementioned protocol, which allows its customers to instantaneously connect billions of devices in remote areas, without having to wait for any new satellites to launch. Having tested its technology with government and enterprise clients, the company then invested funding into scaling service in emerging markets, starting with India and Southeast Asia.
More recently, Skylo has focused on forming partnerships, such as with IoT firm FocusPoint and telecommunications equipment company Anritsu Corporation, through which it has helped deliver IoT monitoring and emergency escalation services and enhanced Non-Terrestrial Network device testing. It also enjoyed an oversubscribed round of funding in 2025, after growing its commercial coverage area to include Brazil, Australia and New Zealand. These two significant wins exemplify Skylo's status as a leading connectivity company.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2025
$30m
LATE VC
Feb 2024
$37m
LATE VC
Total funding: $183m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan
- Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement
- A generous time off policy, holidays, and the opportunity to temporarily work abroad
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Andrew Kalman
(Co-Founder & Hub Architect)Previously co-founded and served as Director of R&D for Euphonix. Founded Pumpkin, serving as President and CTO.
Andrew Nuttall
(Co-Founder & CTO)Received a Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University.
Parthsarathi Trivedi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously acted as a Graduate Research Assistant at MIT's Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment.
Tarun Gupta
(Co-Founder)Previously acted as Head of Strategy and Operations for Google, President for Parallel Infrastructure, and as Chief Architect for FiberTower.
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