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# Director, Talent Acquisition at Moonshot

- **Company:** Moonshot
- **Location:** Denton, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot/jobs/4456166009

## Job description

Director of Talent Acquisition

## Overview

Moonshot is hiring a Director of Talent Acquisition to lead and scale the recruiting function supporting the company’s continued growth across engineering, manufacturing, operations, commercial functions, and leadership.

This role owns the talent acquisition system at Moonshot, from workforce planning and recruiting strategy through sourcing, selection, offer, and onboarding. Reporting to the Chief Human Resources Officer, the Director will lead the existing recruiting organization, build and develop the team to support continued growth, establish scalable processes and systems, and partner directly with business leaders to ensure hiring keeps pace with growth.

This is a builder role. The Director will inherit an existing foundation, but will be expected to strengthen it, build the team around it, and create the recruiting infrastructure required for the next stage of Moonshot’s growth. This person must be comfortable operating as both a functional leader and a hands-on recruiter, remaining directly involved in critical and difficult-to-fill searches while developing a team capable of executing at scale.

## Key Responsibilities

- Talent Acquisition Leadership & Team Building: Lead and scale Moonshot’s Talent Acquisition function. Develop the existing team, define roles and responsibilities, identify future hiring needs, and build a high-performing recruiting organization capable of supporting several hundred hires across the business.
- Recruiting Strategy & Execution: Own recruiting strategy across engineering, manufacturing, operations, skilled technical talent, corporate functions, and leadership. Remain hands-on with executive, specialized, and difficult-to-fill searches while ensuring the broader team delivers against hiring priorities.
- Business Partnership & Workforce Planning: Partner directly with executive and functional leaders to translate business plans, manufacturing capacity, and organizational growth into actionable hiring plans. Establish clear priorities, talent profiles, recruiting strategies, and accountability with hiring managers.
- Sourcing & Talent Pipeline Development: Build proactive sourcing strategies for competitive engineering, technical, data center, power infrastructure, manufacturing, and leadership talent. Develop repeatable talent pipelines for critical and difficult-to-fill roles.
- Process & Operating Rhythm: Establish scalable recruiting processes across intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection, offers, and onboarding. Build consistent operating rhythms with hiring leaders around requisition prioritization, pipeline reviews, feedback, and decision-making.
- Systems, Data & Reporting: Improve the systems and technology supporting Talent Acquisition, including ATS workflows, automation, reporting, and data quality. Establish meaningful recruiting metrics around pipeline health, hiring velocity, time to fill, time to hire, source effectiveness, and other key performance indicators.
- Candidate Engagement & Closing: Create a high-touch candidate experience appropriate for highly competitive technical and leadership markets. Build strong closing practices and ensure recruiters and hiring leaders work together effectively to secure priority talent.
- External Recruiting Partnerships: Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with external recruiting partners. Set clear expectations around quality, communication, responsiveness, and cost while continuing Moonshot’s standard of being a transparent, engaged client that strong recruiting partners want to work with.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify bottlenecks across the recruiting lifecycle and implement practical solutions that improve speed, quality, visibility, and hiring-manager experience as Moonshot continues to scale.

## Qualifications

Experience:

- 10+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience, including leadership of recruiting teams or functions in high-growth environments.
- Proven track record building or scaling an internal Talent Acquisition function, including team capacity, processes, systems, metrics, and operating rhythms.
- Strong experience recruiting engineering and technical talent, including mechanical, electrical, controls, power, software development, AI, and other specialized functions. Manufacturing, production, industrial, or other operational recruiting experience strongly preferred.
- Experience managing significant hiring volume while also supporting specialized, leadership, and executive searches and building proactive pipelines for difficult-to-find talent.
- Strong executive partnership experience across workforce planning, recruiting strategy, hiring priorities, and accountability.
- Experience implementing, migrating, or materially improving ATS and recruiting technology.
- Data center, electrical equipment, power infrastructure, mission-critical infrastructure, industrial manufacturing, or adjacent technical experience strongly preferred.

Leadership & Operating Skills:

- Builder mentality with the ability to create structure without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Comfortable operating as both a strategic leader and a hands-on recruiter.
- Strong sourcing instincts and candidate-closing skills in competitive technical markets.
- Ability to lead, coach, and hold a recruiting team accountable for results.
- Executive presence and the ability to advise, influence, and challenge hiring leaders.
- Data-driven, high-urgency operator comfortable making decisions in a fast-moving growth environment.

Education:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Engineering or other technical educational background is a plus.

Why Moonshot?

- Scale: Build the recruiting organization for a business that has grown more than 3800% in the last several years and is continuing to expand with the data center market.
- Ownership: Lead and shape the Talent Acquisition function, including the team, processes, systems, and recruiting strategy.
- Impact: Directly influence Moonshot’s ability to add the engineering, manufacturing, operational, and leadership talent required to support continued growth.
- Builder Culture: Join an organization that values speed, accountability, practical problem-solving, and execution.
- Growth: Build a function that will continue to expand in scope and importance alongside the business.

## About Moonshot

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Moonshot designs and manufactures modular datacenters, power distribution equipment, and electrical infrastructure for the largest AI datacenter and bitcoin mining deployments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ethan Ellenberg (CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Electrical equipment manufacturing, data center infrastructure, and engineering/procurement/construction (EPC).
- Target customers: Hyperscale AI data center operators, bitcoin mining companies, utilities, and solar power developers (B2B, Enterprise).
- Mission: Build the power infrastructure that makes AI possible and become the most AI-advanced manufacturer in the country.

## Products & Services
- **Modular Datacenters**: Fully engineered, UL-compliant prefabricated data center units for temporary expansions, remote operations, and permanent AI deployments.
- **Switchboards & Control Panels**: Custom UL891 switchboards and UL508A industrial control panels built in-house.
- **Power Distribution Units (PDUs) & Rack Systems**: Critical power distribution components for data centers.
- **Transformers**: Pole-mount, pad-mount, substation, and mobile transformers; Moonshot is an authorized distributor with direct partnerships with leading manufacturers.
- **Engineering & Consulting**: Free design and deployment consulting, in-house engineering group supporting customer projects.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company; no disclosed funding rounds).
- **Key Metric**: 26 employees (as of mid-2026), with 141% yearly headcount growth. Active job postings have grown 43% month-over-month.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Moonshot is an authorized distributor for leading transformer manufacturers and maintains strategic stocking partnerships across the U.S. Specific investor names are not disclosed.
- **Growth Signals**: Hypergrowth phase – significant headcount and job posting increases; expanding AI adoption internally; building out executive leadership (Director of AI, VP of Sales) to scale operations.

## Competitive Advantages
- Specialized expertise in mission-critical data center infrastructure, with decades of experience in hyperscale deployments.
- UL-listed panel shop offering custom, code-compliant manufacturing.
- In-house engineering and design capabilities with free consulting for customers.
- Established relationships with transformer manufacturers and a large US-wide stocking network.
- First-mover internal AI transformation: actively building internal AI tools, training programs, and governance to become the most AI-advanced manufacturer.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the commercial organization through disciplined sales operations, forecasting, and go-to-market segmentation (VP of Sales hire).
- Driving enterprise-wide AI adoption: building a roadmap, governance framework, and ROI measurement for applying AI across manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and finance (Director of AI role).
- Expanding modular datacenter capacity to meet demand from AI and bitcoin mining sectors.
- Strengthening supply chain and manufacturing throughput to support hypergrowth.

## Why Work Here
- **Build something real**: Employees work on physical equipment that powers the models behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Impact is immediate and visible.
- **Hypergrowth environment**: Rapidly scaling company with 141% yearly headcount growth, offering ground-floor leadership opportunities and career acceleration.
- **Innovative culture**: Moonshot is aggressively adopting AI internally – employees across departments are expected to use AI tools and help shape the company’s transformation.
- **Location**: Based in the Dallas, Texas area (likely on-site/hybrid given manufacturing nature).
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but job descriptions emphasize autonomy, ownership, and the chance to define roles and processes from the ground up.
- **Note on naming**: There is a separate, unrelated Moonshot (a crypto trading platform, moonshot.com). This profile covers the manufacturing company that uses the careers page at job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/moonshotglobal)
2. [AI Adoption Specialist Job Description](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot/jobs/4226333009)
3. [Director, AI Job Description](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot/jobs/4230574009)
4. [Vice President of Sales Job Description](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/moonshot/jobs/4233073009)

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