Principal Technical Recruiter

The world still has coverage blind spots. You could help eliminate them at Skylo.

Skylo has pioneered a standards-based approach to satellite connectivity. We connect smartphones and IoT devices directly to satellites. No special hardware, no entirely new networks. Just billions of existing devices, suddenly reachable anywhere on Earth. We're not building toward this future. We're already in it.

Our direct-to-device service is live on millions of activated devices across five continents, covering more than 72 million square kilometers, in partnership with leading satellite operators, mobile network operators, Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs worldwide. And we're just getting started.

At the heart of it all is Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN: a 3GPP standards-based, cloud-native platform that seamlessly bridges terrestrial and satellite networks. It's the infrastructure that makes true anywhere, anytime connectivity possible.

When you join Skylo, you'll work at the intersection of three markets reshaping how the world stays connected: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT. Enabling people outdoors and critical workflows in the world's most remote places.

This is a rare chance to work on technology that matters, at a company that's already proving it works

Summary of How You Will Impact Skylo

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.

What the role will look like

• 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.

What We Look For

• A CS degree, Information Systems, or comparable technical educational background are table stakes. 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 We Offer

With employees working across three continents, Skylo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. Our worldwide and inclusive culture encourages a flexible approach to work, and we also offer an attractive range of benefits such as:

• Competitive compensation packages including a stock option based equity program

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan

• Monthly allowances for wellness and education reimbursement

• A generous time off policy and holidays

• Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of developing and running the world's first commercial, live direct-to-device satellite network and service

• Access to world-class talent across tech domains: software, hardware, chipsets, telecom, satellite, and network virtualization

• Open, transparent, inclusive culture that blends Silicon Valley, Nordic, and South Asia characteristics

Additional information

The compensation range for this position is: $180,000 - $200,000 plus equity. This range reflects the low and high end of the range Skylo reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role.

EEO Statement

Skylo is an equal-opportunity employer and we celebrate diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, parent or caregiver status, political affiliation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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