Senior Hiring & Internal Mobility Partner

SimSpace serves as an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. Trusted by allied governments, militaries, enterprises, and research institutions worldwide, SimSpace enables adaptive, AI-ready defenses that stay ahead of evolving threats. Founded in 2015 by experts from U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the platform unifies training, testing, and validation in a realistic, live-fire simulation—helping teams evaluate security investments, optimize performance, and compress cyber readiness cycles from months to days.

Why join SimSpace? We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere every day which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.

How Do We Work? We believe that people are at the center of everything we do. SimSpace fosters a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and professional growth. That belief shows up in action: in-house training, internal and external learning platforms, cyber conferences, industry events, and dedicated time for skill development. Our people are empowered to shape their careers - and it shows. Year over year, SimSpace consistently outperforms industry benchmarks in internal mobility, promotions, and total rewards growth.

Who Thrives Here? We are a team of innovators, protectors, and problem-solvers. We believe diversity of thought and experience fuels better solutions, and we’re committed to building teams that reflect the communities we serve. Whether you’re remote or office-based, you’ll collaborate with talented colleagues across departments and time zones, united by the mission to create a safer digital world.

We invite you to apply today!

👋 HI, I’M ASHLYN — MANAGER OF HIRING & INTERNAL MOBILITY AT SIMSPACE.

At SimSpace, we believe hiring is more than filling roles. It’s about building relationships, creating exceptional experiences, and helping people and teams grow thoughtfully.

I’m looking for a Senior Hiring & Internal Mobility Partner to join our team and help us deliver strong global hiring outcomes while supporting candidates and employees through important career moments.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing hands-on recruiting with candidate experience, operational excellence, and collaborative partnership. You’ll work closely with our Hiring & Internal Mobility team, hiring managers, interviewers, People Operations partners, and business leaders across the organization.

If you enjoy building trusted partnerships, navigating complex hiring challenges, and using technology and AI to create smarter, more scalable ways of working, I’d love to meet you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Hiring & Internal Mobility Partner, you’ll support full lifecycle recruiting across a variety of technical and nontechnical functions, including R&D, Product, Go-to-Market, G&A, and Professional Services.

You’ll help hiring teams move searches forward, develop and engage talent pipelines, maintain reliable recruiting operations, and create a responsive and inclusive experience for every candidate.

You’ll also support onboarding and orientation activities so that the experience we create during recruiting continues after a candidate becomes a SimSpacer.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role for someone who can move fluidly between strategy and execution. You’ll be expected to independently navigate complex searches, competing priorities, and ambiguous business needs while communicating effectively with stakeholders ranging from individual contributors to executive leaders.

Success requires strong judgment, executive presence, and the ability to distinguish when a situation requires strategic consultation, operational execution, escalation, or simply decisive action. You’ll also help advance how we work by thoughtfully applying AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve hiring effectiveness, experience, and scalability.

AS A SENIOR HIRING PARTNER, YOU’LL:

• Execute full lifecycle recruiting activities and serve as a trusted talent advisor to hiring managers and senior leaders, translating business needs into thoughtful hiring strategies and actionable plans

• Navigate strategic and operational conversations across all levels of the organization, adapting communication, recommendations, and level of detail to the audience

• Source and engage active and passive candidates through LinkedIn, talent platforms, referrals, networking, and targeted outreach

• Use sound judgment to independently resolve challenges, identify when escalation is necessary, and bring forward solutions rather than problems alone

• Balance immediate recruiting execution with broader business priorities, workforce needs, candidate experience, and long-term talent strategy

• Create thoughtful candidate outreach and employer brand content that strengthens engagement

• Deliver a responsive, inclusive, and high-quality candidate experience throughout the hiring process

• Support equitable, structured, and consistent hiring practices across the organization

• Maintain accurate recruiting data, workflows, documentation, and candidate records

• Apply AI and automation to improve sourcing, research, candidate engagement, recruiting operations, analytics, and team productivity

• Directly support the design, test, and deploy practical agentic workflows and automations that reduce manual work and improve the quality, consistency, and scalability of hiring processes

• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and identify responsible, high-value applications within Hiring & Internal Mobility

• Help drive adoption of new technology by documenting workflows, sharing knowledge, and enabling teammates and stakeholders to use new capabilities effectively

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

You’ll be successful in this role when you are:

• Viewed as a credible, trusted partner by hiring managers, peers, and senior leaders

• Moving comfortably between strategic conversations and detailed execution without losing sight of either

• Anticipating needs, identifying risks, and bringing forward thoughtful recommendations before being asked

• Navigating ambiguity and competing priorities with sound judgment and appropriate urgency

• Communicating complex or sensitive information clearly, concisely, and confidently across different levels of seniority

• Using data, business context, and talent-market insight to influence hiring strategy and decisions

• Leveraging AI and automation to meaningfully improve productivity, quality, speed, and candidate experience

• Creating repeatable AI-enabled workflows that can be adopted by others rather than relying solely on individual productivity gains

• Delivering a strong candidate and hiring manager experience across multiple concurrent searches

• Maintaining reliable execution, accurate data, and strong follow-through even while operating strategically

YOU’LL BE A GREAT FIT IF:

🎯 You have executive presence and strong judgment. You can engage confidently with stakeholders at every level, understand the business context behind a request, challenge constructively when appropriate, and communicate recommendations clearly without overcomplicating the conversation.

🤖 You are AI-fluent and experimentation-minded. You actively use AI to improve how you work and are comfortable moving beyond basic prompting into workflow creation, automation, and agentic approaches. You’re curious about emerging capabilities, willing to experiment, and able to turn successful experiments into practical, repeatable ways of working.

🤝 You are relationship-oriented. You genuinely enjoy helping people explore career opportunities and making important decisions wit