American Terawatt is building a new industrial electric grid for the United States. Getting there requires a team who can do the impossible.

We design and deploy advanced power transmission systems, serving large industrial loads, hundreds of megawatts at a time. Our systems deliver electric power to everything from frontier AI datacenters to highly automated manufacturing, refineries, mines, and more.

We make interconnection fast, simple, and cheap. On our network, generation owners get their projects online years faster than the legacy grid, delivering abundant power at competitive prices.

The backbone of American Terawatt’s network is based on long-distance HVDC transmission, anchored by software-defined ‘Macrogrids’ which actively manage local transmission between generation, storage, and loads.

The Role

As the head of talent at American Terawatt, you will:

• Establish, operate, and improve our recruiting process. You will understand the organization’s talent needs deeply as it grows and evolves, and ensure the best outcomes for our teams as well as for candidates. You will need to know what great looks like at American Terawatt.

• Manage our interview process hands-on, ensuring it is efficient, effective, and produces results that are a fit both for candidates and for American Terawatt.

• Quantitatively evaluate our talent pipeline across all teams in the organization, contributing to hiring planning, and identifying and fixing issues wherever they arise.

• Work with external recruiters to accelerate hiring, setting expectations and continuously evaluating results and RoI.

• Support candidate onboarding and orientation, ensuring our culture and values are effectively upheld and strengthened with each new hire.

Experience

This is a senior role requiring substantial experience in recruiting for a variety of teams in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, industrial production, energy, or other relevant sectors.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of recruiting experience recruiting for technical and other talent in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, industrial production, energy, or other relevant sectors.

• Experience in successfully creating talent teams and processes from scratch.

• Experience managing recruiting pipelines hands-on, and quantitatively evaluating success.

• Demonstrated success in recruiting for difficult to fill or unique roles, at a variety of levels of seniority.

Preferred Experience

• Extensive experience recruiting for new teams from scratch.

• Experience in recruiting for the energy or electric power industries.

Position Details

This role reports directly to the CEO, and is responsible for leading talent across the organization.