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We take cab chassis from OEMs like Ford and Harbinger and build configurable vehicle systems on top, serving mobile healthcare, RVs, command centers, food and beverage, pet care, and more. Our customers include Colgate, Nokia, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and Portland PD. We've raised ~$5M in VC funding and are shipping vehicles in market today.\nWe also build our own software: a mobile app, fleet dashboard, and onboard computer system that lets customers monitor and control vehicle systems remotely. We design, fabricate, and assemble everything in-house at our facility in Corktown.\nThe Role\nWe're hiring our first in-house recruiter. Grounded is scaling fast - production has to roughly triple this year, and nearly every team is hiring: manufacturing engineers, technicians, mechanical and software engineers, sales, and operations. Today the founders run recruiting themselves. That doesn't scale.\nYou'll own recruiting end to end, embedded with the team in Detroit: partnering with the founders and technical leads to define roles, building pipeline, running a fast and human process, and closing candidates who have other offers. The hard part of this job is the technical and build-side searches - production, quality, and engineering talent. Those are the hires that take real judgment; the non-technical roles will take care of themselves once you have a process.\nYou'll also build the recruiting function itself - the systems, the metrics, the employer brand - and set the bar for how hiring operates as we grow.\nWhat you'd actually do\nOwn full-cycle recruiting across manufacturing, engineering, software, field ops, and generalist roles - from first outreach to signed offer\n\nPartner with hiring managers to define roles: write job descriptions that attract the right people and design interview loops that actually evaluate them well\n\nBuild and manage top-of-funnel pipeline through sourcing, events, referrals, and creative channels\n\nRun a fast, human-centered recruiting process that delivers a best-in-class candidate experience\n\nCreate the systems and workflows for scale: ATS hygiene (we run Ashby), scorecards, candidate tracking, calibration loops\n\nTrack and report pipeline and hiring metrics - funnel conversion, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate - to keep individual searches and overall hiring on track\n\nPartner with the founders on headcount planning: what we hire, in what order, and what it costs\n\nHelp shape our employer brand online and offline, and translate it into sharper outbound and sourcing messaging\n\nWhat we're looking for\n5+ years of in-house technical recruiting experience (agency background is fine if you've also worked in-house)\n\nStrong track record hiring hard-to-fill roles on both the engineering and the build side - manufacturing engineers, technicians, production and quality talent, alongside design, systems, and software engineers\n\nDemonstrated ability to close hard candidates, including comp negotiation - you've won people who had other offers, and you know how to make an equity story land with someone who has never held equity before\n\nComfortable building pipeline and process from scratch, with minimal existing recruiting infrastructure to lean on\n\nExcellent sourcing and candidate assessment skills\n\nClear, compelling communicator - written and verbal - who builds real relationships with both candidates and hiring managers\n\nHighly organized and self-directed; thrives in fast-moving, low-structure environments\n\nMotivated by mission and able to connect with candidates beyond just comp and perks\n\nNice-to-haves\nExperience hiring in automotive, EV, or industrial manufacturing\n\nRecruiting at an early-stage startup\n\nComfort recruiting into the Midwest manufacturing talent market\n\nCompensation\nCompetitive base salary + meaningful equity in Grounded + comprehensive health insurance\nWhy this role is different\nMost recruiting jobs hand you a req list and an ATS someone else configured. 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