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# Senior Global Recruiter at Spire

- **Company:** Spire
- **Location:** Washington District of Columbia, United States
- **Compensation:** $130k–$171k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://spire.com/careers/job-openings/job/?gh_jid=8105638&gh_jid=8105638

## Job description

## About the Role

As a Senior Global Recruiter, you will play a critical role in building the leadership, commercial, and corporate teams that enable Spire to grow and deliver for customers around the world.

Your primary focus will be executive, commercial, and general and administrative (G&A) hiring across North America and other international markets. We are looking for an accomplished search professional who brings a strong track record, established market networks, and the ability to engage high-caliber passive talent across a broad range of corporate disciplines and leadership levels.

Reporting to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition, you will act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders. You will combine executive search discipline, market intelligence, proactive sourcing, and sound judgment to shape effective hiring strategies and deliver high-quality talent in a fast-paced global organization. You will also flex into other complex or specialist searches when business priorities require.

## What You'll Do

Strategic Partnership & Search Advisory

- Partner closely with hiring managers and senior leaders to understand business priorities, workforce plans, and current and future hiring needs.
- Lead intake meetings to define the search strategy, candidate profile, assessment approach, interview plan, and realistic delivery timeline.
- Provide clear advice on talent availability, competitor activity, compensation, market conditions, and factors that may affect the quality or pace of a search.
- Influence and, where appropriate, challenge hiring decisions through evidence, market intelligence, and thoughtful recommendations.
- Coach hiring teams on candidate assessment, interview quality, inclusive hiring, and effective decision-making.

Executive Search & Full-Cycle Recruiting

- Own the full recruitment lifecycle, from intake and market mapping through outreach, assessment, offer acceptance, and pre-boarding partnership.
- Lead complex and business-critical searches across executive, commercial, and a broad range of G&A disciplines, including senior individual contributor, management, director, and executive-level appointments.
- Apply rigorous search methodology to identify, approach, and convert passive candidates, including confidential or highly sensitive assignments.
- Leverage an established professional network, referrals, LinkedIn Recruiter, industry relationships, and targeted market mapping to reach exceptional talent.
- Build and maintain long-term relationships with senior professionals and future candidates, creating sustainable pipelines ahead of hiring demand.
- Partner with Compensation, HR Business Partners, HR Operations, and hiring leaders throughout the assessment and offer process.
- Manage external search firms selectively where additional specialist reach or capacity is required.

Management Information & Decision Support

- Provide concise, decision-useful management information on active searches, including pipeline quality, market coverage, candidate conversion, delivery risks, and expected timelines.
- Translate search data and market feedback into clear recommendations that help leaders refine requirements, remove process barriers, and make timely hiring decisions.
- Present search progress and talent-market insights through regular stakeholder updates, using appropriate dashboards, reports, and narrative commentary rather than data in isolation.
- Use recruiting metrics and search outcomes to identify trends, improve forecasting, strengthen search strategy, and continuously improve hiring effectiveness.

Talent Attraction & Operational Excellence

- Develop a strong understanding of Spire's markets, products, customers, competitors, and growth priorities so you can represent the opportunity credibly.
- Act as a compelling brand ambassador, communicating Spire's mission, culture, and employee value proposition to senior candidates.
- Maintain accurate and timely recruiting activity in Greenhouse ATS and related recruiting technologies.
- Manage multiple concurrent searches while maintaining pace, quality, confidentiality, and an excellent candidate experience.
- Identify practical opportunities to improve search processes, documentation, interview consistency, and stakeholder capability.
- Ensure recruiting practices remain compliant with applicable employment laws and company policies.

## What You'll Bring

- A strong track record in executive search or senior-level recruitment, ideally gained within a high-quality search agency, in-house executive recruiting team, or a combination of both.
- An extensive and relevant professional network, with demonstrated success leveraging relationships to identify and engage high-caliber passive talent.
- Broad experience recruiting across commercial and G&A disciplines, with the versatility to move between functions, leadership levels, and international markets.
- Strong business acumen and the curiosity to understand complex roles, markets, operating models, and organizational challenges.
- A consultative style and the credibility to influence senior stakeholders through evidence-based advice and clear market insight.
- Excellent research, market-mapping, outreach, assessment, and candidate-management capability.
- The ability to synthesize search data, identify meaningful trends, and present management information that supports effective decisions.
- High levels of ownership, judgment, discretion, resilience, organization, and attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

## Minimum Qualifications

- 10+ years of full-cycle recruitment or executive search experience within technology, SaaS, aerospace, geospatial, data and analytics, or another complex, high-growth environment.
- Demonstrated success delivering complex, senior, and executive searches across a broad range of commercial and G&A functions.
- A proven record of building and leveraging professional networks to deliver difficult-to-find and passive talent.
- Experience independently managing searches from intake and market mapping through assessment and offer acceptance.
- Strong experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, modern sourcing tools, and an Applicant Tracking System, preferably Greenhouse or a comparable platform.
- Experience recruiting across multiple geographic regions, including North America and EMEA.
- Authorization to work in the United States and ability to work in a hybrid environment from our Tysons, Virginia office.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience recruiting within satellite, aerospace, geospatial, Earth Intelligence, data analytics, or a global technology organization.
- Experience supporting a publicly traded company or other complex, internationally distributed business.
- Experience partnering with Compensation and HR Business Partners on role design, hiring strategy, and offer development.
- Familiarity with compensation benchmarking, labor-market analytics, recruiting dashboards, and executive search reporting.
- Experience managing confidential executive or leadership searches.

Why Join Spire?

At Spire, you'll help build the teams developing technology that improves how the world understands our planet. You'll collaborate with colleagues across the globe, partner with innovative business leaders, and contribute to a company where your work directly influences our ability to grow and deliver for customers.

We're committed to creating an environment where people can do their best work, grow their careers, and make a meaningful impact.

## Our Values

We Are Global - We embrace diverse perspectives and work as one global team.

We Are Unbounded - We think boldly, challenge convention, and continuously innovate.

We Are Faster - We move with urgency and focus on delivering value.

We Are Reliable - We build trust through accountability and consistent execution.

We Are Relentless - We continuously improve ourselves, our products, and our customer experience.

We Are Collaborative - We achieve more together than we ever could alone.

## Compensation

Base Salary Range: $130,500-$171,000 USD

Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, geographic location, internal equity, and business needs. This position may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation, equity, and Spire's comprehensive benefits package. The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Final base salary for this role will be based on the location, skills, experience and qualifications. In addition to base compensation, this role may be eligible for annual equity awards and our employee benefits program, including vacation, sick, and personal time off; optional medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage; a 401(K) plan; health and wellness reimbursement program; and participation in Spire’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Salary Range $130,000—$171,000 USD

Global Perks

🛰️ Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP) 🚀 Launch Attendance 🌴 Generous Time Off Policy 🎓 Education Assistance Program 🥰 Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 📈 Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) 👣 Family Leave 💪 Fitness Reimbursement 🧡 Employee Referral Program 🍉 Healthy snacks & beverages in every office

## About Spire

We improve life on Earth with data from space.

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire’s data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.

Spire is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

To help maintain a safe and secure workplace for Spire employees, all candidates who receive a conditional offer will be required to complete a background check. This may include criminal history and employment verification.

Please take a moment to review [Spire's Global Data Privacy Notice for Employees, Contractors, Candidates and Visitors](https://spire.com/global-data-privacy-notice/), as well as [Spire's Privacy Policy.](https://spire.com/privacy-policy/)

Kindly be advised that communication regarding your application may come from @spire.com, @recruiting.spire.com, or from Candidate.fyi (our scheduling tool).

## About Spire

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A space-powered data and intelligence company that designs, builds, and operates its own satellite constellation to collect and process Earth observation data from space, turning it into actionable insights for government and commercial customers [spire.com](https://spire.com/).
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: SPIR) – indicated by an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) that allows employees to purchase Spire shares [spire.com/careers](https://spire.com/careers/).
- **Headquarters**: Global offices in Washington DC (USA), Boulder (USA), Luxembourg, and Munich (Germany); primary operational headquarters not explicitly stated in provided sources [spire.com/about-us](https://spire.com/about-us/).
- **Founded**: Not publicly available in provided sources (commonly reported as 2012).
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided sources (commonly reported as Peter Platzer, Jeroen Cappaert, and Joel Spark).

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Earth observation / space‑based data analytics / satellite intelligence.
- **Target customers**: B2G (government / defense / national security) and B2B (aviation, weather & climate, maritime, logistics). Customers include federal agencies and commercial enterprises.
- **Mission**: “To inspire, lead, and create the business of Earth observation for the benefit of all.” [spire.com/careers](https://spire.com/careers/)

## Products & Services
- **Space‑Based Aviation Intelligence (ADS‑B)** – Real‑time flight tracking and analytics for operational efficiency and safety, including the EURIALO project to mitigate GPS jamming [spire.com](https://spire.com/).
- **Weather & Climate Data** – Global atmospheric data collected by radio occultation and other sensors, used for weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and risk assessment [spire.com](https://spire.com/).
- **Maritime Tracking (AIS)** – Vessel position and movement data for logistics, security, and environmental monitoring [implied from “transforming global logistics” on about‑us page].
- **Government & Defense Solutions** – Custom intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data feeds for national security customers [spire.com](https://spire.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available in provided sources.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue not disclosed in provided sources.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly available in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across multiple engineering, sales, and program management roles; continuous expansion of satellite constellation (LEMUR satellites); participation in government contracts (e.g., EURIALO) [spire.com/careers/job-openings](https://spire.com/careers/job-openings/).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical Integration**: Designs, builds, and operates its own nanosatellites, ground stations, and software infrastructure, providing end‑to‑end control over data quality and latency [spire.com](https://spire.com/).
- **Global Coverage**: A large constellation of low‑Earth orbit satellites enables frequent revisit times and near‑global data collection [spire.com](https://spire.com/).
- **Speed & Agility**: Company culture emphasizes a “faster” and “unbounded” approach, allowing rapid iteration and deployment of new products [spire.com/careers](https://spire.com/careers/).

## Strategic Focus
- Expand government and defense sales (e.g., U.S. Federal Sales Director, Business Development Manager for Federal ISR) [spire.com/careers/job-openings](https://spire.com/careers/job-openings/).
- Deepen weather and climate analytics through product management and RF engineering investments [spire.com/careers/job-openings](https://spire.com/careers/job-openings/).
- Continue to enhance aviation intelligence offerings, especially in GPS jamming mitigation and flight path optimization [spire.com](https://spire.com/).
- Grow the global workforce to reflect the company’s international customer base and operational footprint [spire.com/careers](https://spire.com/careers/).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: “Global,” “Unbounded,” “Faster,” “Reliable” – employees collaborate across time zones and continents; diversity is valued (employees from over 45 countries) [spire.com/careers](https://spire.com/careers/).
- **Benefits**:
  - Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
  - Generous family leave and flexible time‑off policy
  - Fitness reimbursement and healthy snacks/beverages
  - Learning & development support
  - Unique “Name Your Own Satellite” perk and VIP launch attendance [spire.com/careers](https://spire.com/careers/).
- **Work Model**: Hybrid / in‑office presence at locations in Washington DC, Boulder, Luxembourg, and Munich; some remote roles available (e.g., “Remote – Based in Europe”) [spire.com/careers/job-openings](https://spire.com/careers/job-openings/).
- **Engineering Focus**: Heavy investment in RF engineering, spacecraft software, back‑end development, and systems engineering; many senior‑level openings indicate a focus on experienced talent [spire.com/careers/job-openings](https://spire.com/careers/job-openings/).

## Sources
1. [spire.com](https://spire.com/) – Homepage: “Turning space data into actionable insights”
2. [spire.com/about-us](https://spire.com/about-us/) – About Us: mission, leadership, locations
3. [spire.com/careers](https://spire.com/careers/) – Careers page: values, benefits, culture
4. [spire.com/careers/job-openings](https://spire.com/careers/job-openings/) – Job openings: active roles, departments
5. [linkedin.com/company/spireglobal](https://www.linkedin.com/company/spireglobal) – LinkedIn company page (used for verification)

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