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title: 'Talent Acquisition at Airbound'
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# Talent Acquisition at Airbound

- **Company:** Airbound
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airbound/259cbc71-366a-4bce-82c1-a0f1d1b6edf9

## Job description

## About Airbound

Our mission is to make a world where everyone has access to delivery. Where goods move as freely as information moves today. This is possible. Today the cost of moving on a scooter is ₹2/km. That’s the cost of moving a 150kg mass from point A to B. We’re bringing that mass down to less than 5kgs, concurrently bringing the cost down to 10 paise/km. This is how we make deliveries a reality. This is how we create a world where we’re doing billions of deliveries per day. The tech is not there. The current cost of drone delivery is ₹100/km. We need to completely redefine the way things are done here. We’re building the world’s most efficient aircraft from the ground-up, and scaling that up to beyond anything the aerospace sector has ever seen. This cannot be an iterative process. We have to tear down all conventions and build everything up from scratch. To do this, we need nothing less than the best engineers. The ones who care about building something fundamentally different, who are deeply curious about understanding the fundamentals of everything they’re working on, who are dreamers that believe in the impossible.

## About the Role

The Talent Acquisition Manager is responsible for bringing the technical and operational talent into Airbound, and building the recruiting systems that let them thrive once they arrive. This is a first hire role. You will build recruiting from scratch, owning full-cycle hiring and the onboarding experience that sets new joiners up to succeed, in an aerospace company that moves fast and produces at volumes the sector has never attempted. You will work directly with leadership, engineering, manufacturing, and business to solve hiring problems that do not have a template yet.

## Key Responsibilities

- Own full-cycle recruiting for varied roles, ranging from critical technical competencies like composites and avionics to policy makers and marketing
- Build and nurture candidate pipelines through direct outreach, events, and networking in manufacturing, aviation, and drone communities
- Partner with leadership to define and prioritize hiring needs across engineering, production, and operations
- Write job descriptions and employer branding content that reflect how we actually think and work
- Set up onboarding, orientation, and offboarding, and keep them running cleanly as the team scales
- Run a structured, fair, and fast interview process, and improve it as you learn
- Track recruiting metrics like time to fill and quality of hire, and use them to tighten the process
- Maintain accurate people data and documentation as the team grows across locations

## Qualifications

Must-Have

- 3+ years of hands-on experience recruiting for technical roles in manufacturing, engineering, or hardware
- Sharp judgment: you flag hiring risks, team gaps, and people issues in real time, before they become problems
- Disciplined and process-driven, with a bias toward clean documentation and tight operational control
- Proven track record building and scaling recruiting processes from scratch in fast-paced hardware or operational environments
- Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Comfortable with Google Suite, Notion, and other collaboration tools

Good to Have

- Previous experience as the first or early recruiting hire at a startup, building the function from nothing
- Understanding of the hardware, manufacturing, or aerospace talent landscape and what it takes to recruit for it

Work location: Hoskote, Bangalore (Headquarters)

## #LI-AR1

## What We Offer

- Comprehensive health insurance to keep you and your loved ones covered
- Relocation assistance and a daily travel stipend to ease your commute
- Advanced salary credit to support you when you need it

“A driven, passionate team where you’ll have room to grow and thrive - this is more than just a job, it’s a rare opportunity to build something meaningful from the ground up”

Work Schedule:

- In-office role, working alternate Saturdays.

Ready to take off?

Scam Notice: Beware of impersonators collecting fees for interviews & jobs at Airbound (Opendrone Private Limited) Please do not make any payments and report any such incidents to us at contact@airbound.com .

## About Airbound

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Airbound is building the world’s most efficient zero-infrastructure delivery drones, using a proprietary blended wing body tailsitter design to slash logistics costs and enable delivery where roads don’t exist.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed VC – III stage)
- **Headquarters**: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Naman Pushp

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Drone delivery / logistics technology; Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
- **Target customers**: B2B — primarily serving healthcare (rural blood/supply delivery), e-commerce, and enterprise logistics providers
- **Mission**: “Make logistics invisible, affordable, and universal” — enabling instant, affordable, and reliable delivery across cities, villages, and the last untamed mile

## Products & Services
- **TRT (Tailsitter) Drone**: A blended wing body tailsitter that launches vertically like a rocket and transitions to high-efficiency fixed-wing flight. Key specs: ~40km range, 1kg payload, 60km/hr cruise speed, 60dB noise level, 12:1 lift-to-drag ratio. Requires zero infrastructure (no runways, no charging pads, no ground crew). Built with proprietary carbon fiber composites.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $10.5M (across 4 rounds)
- **Last Raised**: $8.65M Seed VC – III (led by Lachy Groom, November 2024)
- **Notable Investors**: Lightspeed, Lachy Groom, Humba Ventures, Lightspeed India Partners, gradCapital, Draper Startup House Accelerator
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 265% year-over-year (now ~61 employees); active job postings up 800% year-over-year; has filed at least 1 patent for blended wing body tailsitter UAV; expanding operations across India with focus on healthcare and e-commerce delivery missions

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary blended wing body tailsitter architecture** — combines VTOL flexibility with fixed-wing efficiency (4x aerodynamic efficiency vs. conventional crafts)
- **Zero infrastructure requirement** — no runways, launchpads, or ground crew needed; drones land and launch anywhere
- **Obsessive weight engineering** — custom carbon fiber composites and in-house power delivery modules reduce weight to the gram
- **India-first engineering & manufacturing** — designed, built, and tested in India, optimized for India’s toughest weather and terrain

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling operations to serve rural healthcare (blood and critical supply delivery) and e-commerce logistics
- Expanding autonomous navigation and precision landing capabilities for real-world weather and terrain
- Building a “borderless supply chain” — moving from healthcare to broader logistics verticals
- Continuing to reduce drone weight and cost to achieve sub-$0.05 delivery economics

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “obsessive engineering” — the team rejects parts that are 3g overweight and develops novel manufacturing processes. Emphasis on rapid prototyping and direct work with flight tests and hardware.
- **Work environment**: Hands-on hardware development; full lab access; flight test mentorship; rapid prototyping budget
- **Remote/hybrid**: Likely on-site given hardware focus (Bengaluru HQ)
- **Growth trajectory**: 265% headcount growth in one year, massive hiring surge (9 open roles as of recent data) — early-stage opportunity to shape a high-growth hardware company
- **Notable perks**: Competitive equity, full lab access, rapid prototyping budget, flight test mentorship
- **Team profile**: 61 employees, 45% technical; talent drawn from companies like ideaForge, Apple, REDWING, and Ultrahuman

## Sources
1. [airbound.com](https://www.airbound.com/)
2. [airbound.com/careers](https://www.airbound.com/careers)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/airbound)
4. [linkedin.com](https://in.linkedin.com/company/airbound-co)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/airbound)

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