Role: Talent Acquisition Specialist

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Bangalore

Role Description:
Pixxel is seeking a highly driven and results-oriented Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our dynamic People team. This is a crucial role for scaling Pixxel, requiring a fully hands-on approach to identify and attract world-class space tech, engineering, and scientific talent in a competitive, niche industry. You will be responsible for defining and executing targeted recruitment strategies that directly impact the success of our satellite constellation and Earth observation platform. This role involves full ownership of the recruitment lifecycle—from strategy to execution—for mid to leadership-level technical roles. The ideal candidate brings an analytical mindset, strategic sourcing abilities, and the confidence to partner with senior candidates and stakeholders across the company.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Strategic Sourcing & Mapping: Lead and execute advanced industry talent mapping projects across specific domains (e.g., Aerospace, Satellite Technology, Imaging Science, Data Science) to identify top-tier professionals globally.

• Full-Cycle Recruitment: Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for a diverse range of roles- including hardware, software, systems, and mission-critical positions- ensuring a seamless and exceptional candidate experience.

• Building Candidate Pipeline: Develop and maintain talent pipelines for niche and hard-to-fill roles, especially within space, defence, and remote sensing sectors.

• Candidate Engagement & Closing: Develop and maintain pipelines of highly engaged, passive candidates through personalised outreach and effective long-term relationship building. Articulate Pixxel's vision and value proposition to successfully close candidates.

• Data-Driven Decisions: Leverage data, dashboards, and recruiting analytics to track performance, identify bottlenecks, and inform sourcing strategies to maximise efficiency and predict hiring needs.

• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with hiring managers and leadership to define role requirements, align hiring strategy, and forecast workforce planning. Act as a strategic partner to hiring managers, providing market intelligence, guidance on talent trends, and ensuring alignment between hiring goals and business priorities.

Required Skills:

• Experience: 5 to 7 years of proven, fully hands-on experience in industry talent mapping, strategic sourcing, and engaging passive candidates, ideally for high-growth or niche technology sectors.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical roles, engage candidates, and negotiate offers effectively.

• Analytical Acumen: Demonstrated comfort in working with recruitment data, metrics, and dashboards (e.g., time-to-hire, source-of-hire, pipeline conversion rates) to drive continuous process improvement.

• Proactive Mindset: Must be a self-starter and fully hands-on, comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced startup environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of experience in full-cycle recruitment, with at least 3 years focused on technical hiring for engineering or hardware-centric roles. Proven track record in leadership hiring, international recruitment, and building talent pipelines for deep-tech industries.

• Prior experience hiring for space technology, defence, aerospace, remote sensing domains or with is highly preferred. OR Headhunting Firm Background- prior experience working at a reputable headhunting or executive search firm (e.g., Michael Page, Heidrick & Struggles, Korn Ferry, Spencer Stuart) is highly advantageous.

• Domain Knowledge: Experience recruiting for deep-tech, aerospace, satellite, or AI/ML companies.

• Global Sourcing: Experience recruiting internationally or managing cross-border pipelines.

• Proficiency with ATS platforms and sourcing tools like LinkedIn

• Experience in stakeholder management, especially with senior technical and leadership teams

• Strong data analytics capability - modelling, analysing and insighting

Candidate Acumen:

• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment with evolving priorities

• Adept at navigating unstructured situations with autonomy and accountability

• Strong communicator who can influence and build trust across cross-functional teams and candidates

• Deeply curious with a willingness to learn the nuances of space and satellite technology

• Ability to be fully hands-on and manage multiple requirements at the same time.

Benefits:

• Health insurance coverage

• Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours

• Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit

• Relocation assistance

• Professional Mental Wellness services

• Creche facility for primary caregivers (limited to India)

• Employee Stock Options for all hires

About Pixxel

Pixxel is a space data company and spacecraft manufacturer redefining Earth observation with hyperspectral imaging. The company’s first constellation of six commercial hyperspectral satellites—Fireflies—deliver imagery at 5-meter resolution and 135+ spectral bands, providing 50x richer detail than traditional Earth observation systems and unlocking insights across agriculture, climate, energy, environment, and more.

Once fully deployed, Pixxel’s constellation of 18-24 satellites will capture imagery across up to 250 bands in VNIR and SWIR ranges, with a 40 km swath and daily global revisit capability. Pixxel’s most unique strength is its full-stack approach, integrating every layer of the value chain from satellite hardware and manufacturing to AI-powered analytics.

Pixxel’s satellite constellation is complemented by Aurora, its in-house Earth Observation Studio that simplifies satellite imagery analysis and democratises remote sensing for all. Designed to make hyperspectral data more accessible, Aurora by Pixxel combines high-frequency imagery with AI-powered tools to generate actionable insights, even for users without technical backgrounds. The third pillar of Pixxel’s ecosystem is its in-house satellite manufacturing capability. Beyond building its own spacecraft, Pixxel also provides satellite systems and subsystems to other organisations. This dual capacity sets it apart in a sector where most companies focus on either payload design or data operations, but not both.

Pixxel’s team is young but deeply mission-aligned, with a culture rooted in curiosity, speed, and long-term thinking. As the company grows its constellation and expands Aurora, the focus remains on making space-based insights practical, scalable, and genuinely helpful so that the health of the planet becomes measurable and action becomes possible.

Pixxel was the only Indian startup selected for the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator in Los Angeles and has been recognised in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2023, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Via Satellite’s Top Innovators list.

For more information, see our Careers page or follow Pixxel on LinkedIn and X/Twitter.

Culture

Pixxel is an organisation where we enable our employees to work on world-changing problems that they are passionate about, and a place where they can be their best selves day in and day out while ensuring they have fun every day.

Central to our employee-first ethos is a commitment to ensuring that every team member feels valued and heard. We nurture a healthy and supportive work environment where we prioritise well-being and growth in all aspects of life

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