Senior hiring & internal mobility partner (talent acquisition)

SimSpace serves as an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. Trusted by allied governments, militaries, enterprises, and research institutions worldwide, SimSpace enables adaptive, AI-ready defenses that stay ahead of evolving threats. Founded in 2015 by experts from U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the platform unifies training, testing, and validation in a realistic, live-fire simulation—helping teams evaluate security investments, optimize performance, and compress cyber readiness cycles from months to days.

Why join SimSpace? We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere every day which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.

How Do We Work? We believe that people are at the center of everything we do. SimSpace fosters a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and professional growth. That belief shows up in action: in-house training, internal and external learning platforms, cyber conferences, industry events, and dedicated time for skill development. Our people are empowered to shape their careers - and it shows. Year over year, SimSpace consistently outperforms industry benchmarks in internal mobility, promotions, and total rewards growth.

Who Thrives Here? We are a team of innovators, protectors, and problem-solvers. We believe diversity of thought and experience fuels better solutions, and we’re committed to building teams that reflect the communities we serve. Whether you’re remote or office-based, you’ll collaborate with talented colleagues across departments and time zones, united by the mission to create a safer digital world.

We invite you to apply today!

👋 Hi, I’m Ashlyn — Manager of Hiring & Internal Mobility at SimSpace. At SimSpace, we believe hiring is more than filling roles. It’s about building relationships, creating exceptional experiences, and helping people and teams grow thoughtfully. I’m looking for a Senior Hiring & Internal Mobility Partner to join our team and help us deliver strong global hiring outcomes while supporting candidates and employees through important career moments.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing hands-on recruiting with candidate experience, operational excellence, and collaborative partnership. You’ll work closely with our Hiring & Internal Mobility team, hiring managers, interviewers, People Operations partners, and business leaders across the organization.

If you enjoy building trusted partnerships, navigating complex hiring challenges, and using technology and AI to create smarter, more scalable ways of working, I’d love to meet you!

About the Role

As a Senior Hiring & Internal Mobility Partner, you’ll support full lifecycle recruiting across a variety of technical and nontechnical functions, including R&D, Product, Go-to-Market, G&A, and Professional Services. You’ll help hiring teams move searches forward, develop and engage talent pipelines, maintain reliable recruiting operations, and create a responsive and inclusive experience for every candidate. You’ll also support onboarding and orientation activities so that the experience we create during recruiting continues after a candidate becomes a SimSpacer.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role for someone who can move fluidly between strategy and execution. You’ll be expected to independently navigate complex searches, competing priorities, and ambiguous business needs while communicating effectively with stakeholders ranging from individual contributors to executive leaders.

Success requires strong judgment, executive presence, and the ability to distinguish when a situation requires strategic consultation, operational execution, escalation, or simply decisive action. You’ll also help advance how we work by thoughtfully applying AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve hiring effectiveness, experience, and scalability.

As a Senior Hiring Partner, You’ll:

• Execute full lifecycle recruiting activities and serve as a trusted talent advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders, translating business needs into thoughtful hiring strategies and actionable plans
• Navigate strategic and operational conversations across all levels of the organization, adapting communication, recommendations, and level of detail to the audience
• Source and engage active and passive candidates through LinkedIn, talent platforms, referrals, networking, and targeted outreach
• Use sound judgment to independently resolve challenges, identify when escalation is necessary, and bring forward solutions rather than problems alone
• Balance immediate recruiting execution with broader business priorities, workforce needs, candidate experience, and long-term talent strategy
• Create thoughtful candidate outreach and employer brand content that strengthens engagement
• Deliver a responsive, inclusive, and high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring process
• Support equitable, structured, and consistent hiring practices across the organization
• Maintain accurate recruiting data, workflows, documentation, and candidate records
• Apply AI and automation to improve sourcing, research, candidate engagement, recruiting operations, analytics, and team productivity
• Directly support the design, test, and deploy practical agentic workflows and automations that reduce manual work and improve the quality, consistency, and scalability of hiring processes
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and identify responsible, high-value applications within Hiring & Internal Mobility
• Help drive adoption of new technology by documenting workflows, sharing knowledge, and enabling teammates and stakeholders to use new capabilities effectively

What Success Looks Like

You’ll be successful in this role when you are:

• Viewed as a credible, trusted partner by hiring managers, peers, and senior leaders
• Moving comfortably between strategic conversations and detailed execution without losing sight of either
• Anticipating needs, identifying risks, and bringing forward thoughtful recommendations before being asked
• Navigating ambiguity and competing priorities with sound judgment and appropriate urgency
• Communicating complex or sensitive information clearly, concisely, and confidently across different levels of seniority
• Using data, business context, and talent-market insight to influence hiring strategy and decisions
• Leveraging AI and automation to meaningfully improve productivity, quality, speed, and candidate experience
• Creating repeatable AI-enabled workflows that can be adopted by others rather than relying solely on individual productivity gains
• Delivering a strong candidate and hiring manager experience across multiple concurrent searches
• Maintaining reliable execution, accurate data, and strong follow-through even while operating strategically

You’ll Be a Great Fit If:

• 🎯 You have executive presence and strong judgment. You can engage confidently with stakeholders at every level, understand the business context behind a request, challenge constructively when appropriate, and communicate recommendations clearly without overcomplicating the conversation.
• 🤖 You are AI-fluent and experimentation-minded. You actively use AI to improve how you work and are comfortable moving beyond basic prompting into workflow creation, automation, and agentic approaches. You’re curious about emerging capabilities, willing to experiment, and able to turn successful experiments into practical, repeatable ways of working.
• 🤝 You are relationship-oriented. You genuinely enjoy helping people explore career opportunities and making important decisions with confidence.
• 🚀 You thrive in ambiguity. You can quickly separate what is strategic from what is logistical, determine what requires escalation versus independent action, and continue making progress when priorities or context change.
• ⚙️ You value operational excellence. You care about clean processes, accurate data, clear documentation, and reliable execution.
• 📣 You communicate with care. You keep candidates and stakeholders informed and adapt your communication to different audiences.
• 🔍 You are naturally curious. You ask thoughtful questions, seek context, and enjoy learning about new roles, teams, and technologies.
• 🧩 You are collaborative and accountable. You enjoy working as part of a team while taking ownership of your responsibilities.
• 💡 You build better ways to work. You don’t simply identify inefficiencies—you investigate the root cause, design a practical solution, test it, and help others adopt it.
• 🌎 You think globally. You are comfortable supporting hiring across locations, time zones, business functions, and cultures.

You Might Not Be a Great Fit If:

• You need detailed direction before taking action or routinely escalate problems without first considering possible solutions
• You struggle to adjust your communication style, level of detail, or approach when working with executives, hiring managers, candidates, and peers
• You are comfortable executing tasks but less comfortable advising, challenging assumptions, or making recommendations
• You treat strategic and logistical issues the same rather than determining the appropriate level of response
• You wait for priorities to be assigned rather than using business context and judgment to determine what needs attention
• Your use of AI is primarily limited to drafting content or basic prompting
• You are hesitant to experiment with AI, automation, or new technologies as part of your everyday work
• You improve your own process but don't naturally think about how successful solutions can be documented, automated, or scaled for others

What You Bring

• 7+ years of progressive recruiting, talent acquisition, talent operations, or related experience within technology, cybersecurity, startup, or similarly fast-moving environments
• Demonstrated experience serving as a strategic talent partner to hiring managers and senior business leaders
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate concisely, navigate challenging conversations, influence without authority, and adapt effectively across levels of seniority
• Demonstrated judgment in navigating ambiguous, sensitive, or rapidly changing business situations
• Ability to translate business objectives into recruiting strategies while remaining highly capable in hands-on execution
• Demonstrated AI fluency and regular use of generative AI within professional workflows
• Experience creating or implementing AI-enabled workflows, automations, agents, or other technology-driven process improvements
• Curiosity about emerging AI capabilities and the ability to evaluate where technology can meaningfully improve outcomes versus simply adding complexity
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to use recruiting data, market intelligence, and business context to inform recommendations
• Experience with Ashby or similarly sophisticated recruiting analytics and automation platforms is strongly preferred
• Experience using Ashby is a strong plus

Technology & AI

Technology is an active part of how we work—not simply a collection of tools. You’ll be expected to develop fluency across our technology ecosystem, experiment responsibly with emerging capabilities, and identify opportunities to automate, augment, or redesign work where doing so creates meaningful value. Our current environment includes Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, Google Workspace, Notion, Slack, Asana, Zapier, and an expanding ecosystem of AI, automation, and agentic technologies.

Our Hiring Philosophy

A few things that are important to our team:

• Candidate experience is part of our employer reputation.
• Hiring should be thoughtful, structured, inclusive, and human.
• Clear communication builds trust, even when the answer is difficult.
• Data should inform decisions without replacing sound judgment.
• Strong processes should make the experience better, not more complicated.
• We value experimentation, continuous learning, and practical innovation.
• Every interaction matters, whether or not a candidate ultimately joins SimSpace.

We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success:

Compensation

Base salary range: $90,000 – $135,000, reflecting our confidence in your expertise and impact, with the opportunity for annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions.

Health & Wellness

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage starts on day one!

Mental Health Support

Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.

Financial Well-Being

Plan for your future with a 401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match.

Flexible Time Off

Take the time you need with unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days. SimSpace provides flexible solutions to meet the diverse work-life needs of team members.

Parental Leave

Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life’s most important moments.

Ownership Opportunities

Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants—become an invested stakeholder in our shared success.

Referral Rewards

Earn $1,500–$3,500 for every qualified hire through our employee referral program.

Peloton Interactive Wellness Program

Full- and partial- subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts to help you reach your personalized fitness goals.

Continuous Learning

Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development.

Social Connections

Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.

Extra Perks

Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more to simplify life’s details.

SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.

Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However, no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. SimSpace encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application!

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact careers@simspace.com.

SimSpace does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.

Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications and experience, and may vary from the range.