Role: Talent Acquisition Advisor

Employment Type: Full Time

Educational Qualification: Graduate / Post Graduate in Engineering, Human Resources, or related disciplines

Location: Bangalore

Work Experience:

6+ years of experience in full-cycle recruitment, with at least 3 years focused on technical hiring for engineering or hardware-centric roles. Proven track record in leadership hiring, international recruitment, and building talent pipelines for deep-tech industries.

Prior experience hiring for space technology, defence , aerospace, or remote sensing domains is highly preferred.

Role Description:

At Pixxel, we’re on a mission to build a health monitor for the planet through a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. Our growth depends on finding the right people to help shape and deliver this ambitious vision.

We’re seeking a Mid Senior Technical Recruiter with a strong engineering background and preferably a deep understanding of the space, aerospace, or remote sensing landscape. This role involves full ownership of the recruitment lifecycle—from strategy to execution—for mid to leadership-level technical roles. The ideal candidate brings an analytical mindset, strategic sourcing abilities, and the confidence to partner with senior candidates and stakeholders across the company.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Manage full-cycle recruitment for a variety of technical roles, including hardware, software, systems, and mission-critical positions.

• Partner with hiring managers and leadership to define role requirements, align hiring strategy, and forecast workforce planning.

• Drive sourcing efforts for both domestic and international talent across engineering and deep-tech domains.

• Lead hiring mandates, ensuring alignment with company vision and cultural values.

• Develop and maintain talent pipelines for niche and hard-to-fill roles, especially within space, defence, and remote sensing sectors.

• Conduct detailed technical and behavioural screening interviews, ensuring candidate and role alignment.

• Use recruitment tools and analytics to track performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve hiring processes.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders on defining outreach initiatives, along with planning and executing industry engagement initiatives.

• Ensure excellent candidate engagement and experience at every stage of the hiring journey.

Desirable Skills & Certifications:

• An educational background in engineering is preferred to enable deeper alignment with technical roles

• Proficiency with ATS platforms and sourcing tools like LinkedIn

• Demonstrated ability in hiring across multiple geographies and time zones

• Experience in stakeholder management, especially with senior technical and leadership teams

• Strong data analytics capability - modelling, analysing and insighting

Candidate Acumen:

• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment with evolving priorities

• Adept at navigating unstructured situations with autonomy and accountability

• Strong communicator who can influence and build trust across cross-functional teams and candidates

• Deeply curious with a willingness to learn the nuances of space and satellite technology

• Comfortable working with ambiguity and solving complex hiring challenges independently

Benefits:

• Health insurance coverage

• Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours

• Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefits

• Relocation assistance
  

• Professional Mental Wellness Services

• Creche facility for primary caregivers (limited to India)
  

• Employee Stock Options for all hires

About Pixxel:

Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Pixxel’s constellation is designed to provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment and energy use cases.

Pixxel is on a mission to build a health monitor for the planet through a constellation of cutting-edge hyperspectral small satellites. This unique hyperspectral capability will be the key to unearth underlying, unseen problems that are invisible to satellites in orbit today.

Pixxel has collaborated with prominent organizations such as the Indian Space Research Organization, NASA JPL, and SpaceX among other leaders in the space industry. The organization is backed by Lightspeed, Radical Ventures, Relativity's Jordan Noone, Seraphim Capital, Ryan Johnson, Blume Ventures, Sparta LLC and Accenture among others.

Recently, Pixxel successfully raised $36 Million in its Series B funding round, with participation from new investors like Google, alongside existing investors, bringing the company's total venture funding to $71 Million.

To know more about us, visit https://www.pixxel.space.
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