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title: 'Director of Development at Arsenal Pulse'
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# Director of Development at Arsenal Pulse

- **Company:** Arsenal Pulse
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Compensation:** $250k–$400k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/ketchtalent/am9icG9zdDoHSvc5clK5PUE-50mKWogD

## Job description

- Director of Development- Owns full process: zoning, entitlements, underwriting, horizontal infrastructure, vertical leasing
- Austin market knowledge preferred but not required
- Avoid: big-firm VPs dependent on large teams; family office candidates who are too junior
- Target: elite specialist in permitting, entitlements, or horizontal who can think first principles and own cradle to grave
- Base comp starts with a 3, up to a 4 (i.e. $300K-$400K+); incentives likely on top
- Equity in the family office fund: unknown, Mike to find out (Vince flagged as a strong selling point)

## About Arsenal Pulse

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arsenal Pulse is a boutique recruiting and talent advisory firm that helps venture-backed defense, aerospace, manufacturing, gov-tech, and energy companies hire top-tier talent.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; early stage)
- **Headquarters**: United States (specific city not publicly listed)
- **Founded**: Not publicly disclosed; founded in the past several years
- **Founders**: Mike Moriarty (CEO & Co-Founder), Geo Saba (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Staffing and Recruiting (specialist in defense, aerospace, manufacturing, gov-tech, energy)
- Target customers: VC-backed seed to Series C companies building in defense, aerospace, energy, and national security sectors; also pre-seed and later-stage select clients; mission-driven organizations.
- Mission: To place outlier talent in roles that strengthen the nation’s future, with a focus on quality over volume.

## Products & Services
- **Contingent Search**: Pay-for-performance model for urgent hires (4 or fewer, or 5+ searches). High-touch sourcing.
- **Executive Search**: Retained, discreet process to secure senior leaders (C-suite, VP) with rigorous vetting and compensation benchmarking.
- **Fractional Head of Talent**: Part-time senior talent leader to build recruiting infrastructure and strategy without a full-time hire.
- **Strategic Advisory**: Pre-agreed hours per week of coaching for CEOs or in-house recruiters, focused on hiring strategy/org design.
- **Board Search**: Recruiting board members with governance and mission alignment; access to a proprietary network of 250+ former senior government officials across defense, aerospace, energy, transportation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private, bootstrapped).
- **Key Metric**: 26 employees as of latest data. Annual revenue not disclosed.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not applicable (no external funding disclosed). Partners include mission-driven defense/tech startups (e.g., Anduril Industries, Nominal, Meta, Coinbase, others as former employers of team members).
- **Growth Signals**: +4.3% monthly employee growth; 2,827 monthly website visits (+63.6% monthly traffic growth); global rank #4,934,854 (small but growing). Reports a time-to-fill under 35 days.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialized boutique model**: Takes on fewer searches per client to ensure deep focus and high-quality placements, contrasting with high-volume agencies.
- **Mission alignment**: Recruits exclusively for companies building “technologies and defenses that strengthen our nation,” creating a strong brand and candidate pull in defense/national security.
- **Proprietary network**: 250+ former senior government officials for board searches; deep relationships in defense, aerospace, energy.
- **Data-driven process**: Tracks time-to-fill by client and role; uses AI tools for sourcing efficiency.
- **Fractional and advisory offerings**: Provides strategic HR leadership that goes beyond placement, helping companies scale effectively.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale its team of recruiters and sourcers (actively hiring) to meet growing demand from VC-backed defense/gov-tech startups.
- Continue to deepen specialization in defense, aerospace, manufacturing, gov-tech, and energy sectors.
- Build long-term partnerships with seed-to-Series C companies at critical hiring inflection points.
- Expand advisory and fractional services to support org design and talent strategy.

## Why Work Here
- **Boutique, mission-driven culture**: Small team (26 people) focused on high-impact work. Described as an “awkward family” with a close-knit, non-corporate vibe.
- **Growth and earning potential**: “Real opportunity to make real money” — not a churn-and-burn agency; hires recruiters and sourcers to scale.
- **Flexibility**: Likely remote/hybrid (not explicitly stated; typical for boutique recruiting firms).
- **Ownership and variety**: Recruiters own searches end-to-end and work with a diverse set of cutting-edge defense/tech companies.
- **Company culture**: Emphasizes quality, teamwork, and purpose over metrics. Team members have backgrounds at Anduril, Meta, Coinbase, and other top tech firms.

## Sources
1. [arsenalpulse.com](https://www.arsenalpulse.com/)
2. [arsenalpulse.com/offering](https://www.arsenalpulse.com/offering)
3. [arsenalpulse.com/about-us](https://www.arsenalpulse.com/about-us)
4. [linkedin.com/company/arsenal-pulse](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arsenal-pulse)
5. [linkedin.com/posts/arsenal-pulse](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arsenal-pulse_americas-reindustrialization-boom-needs-activity-7416302673404026880-SqD_)

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