
Job Overview
Location
Melbourne
Job Type
Full-time
Category
HR & Recruiting
Date Posted
June 23, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • The Recruitment Coordinator – APJ provides essential administrative and operational support to Shield AI’s Talent Acquisition function, ensuring seamless interview scheduling and candidate travel coordination across the Asia-Pacific-Japan region and beyond.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include scheduling and coordinating interviews across multiple time zones, managing complex calendars for candidates and hiring teams, arranging virtual and in-person interviews, preparing interview materials, resolving scheduling conflicts, and maintaining accurate records in TA systems.
- • The role involves arranging domestic and international candidate travel—flights, accommodations, ground transportation—while ensuring compliance with company travel policies, managing itineraries, handling changes or disruptions, and supporting visa documentation where needed.
- • As a primary point of contact for candidates, the coordinator delivers timely, professional communication across time zones to ensure a consistent, organized, and positive interview experience in a high-growth, fast-paced startup environment.
- • The position supports recruiting operations by maintaining accurate data entry, assisting with hiring metrics reporting, improving scheduling workflows, and collaborating with recruiting, PX, finance, and hiring teams to scale global hiring initiatives.
- • Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company founded in 2015 with a mission to protect service members and civilians through intelligent systems, including Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT/X-BAT aircraft, with global operations supporting missions worldwide.
- • The role offers the opportunity to develop expertise in global talent acquisition coordination, cross-time-zone logistics, candidate experience management, and recruiting operations within a high-impact, innovative defense technology organization.
🎯 Requirements
- • Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent professional experience
- • 3+ years of experience in recruiting coordination, HR coordination, or high-volume scheduling
- • Experience coordinating interviews across APJ time zones
- • Experience booking international travel preferred
- • Strong organizational and time management skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
- • Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (e.g., Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workday, Modern Loop) and Microsoft Office
🏖️ Benefits
- • Opportunity to work in a mission-driven defense-tech company protecting service members and civilians
- • Exposure to global hiring operations across U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific regions
- • Professional growth in talent acquisition coordination within a high-growth, fast-paced startup environment
- • Collaboration with cross-functional teams including recruiting, PX, finance, and hiring managers
- • Experience managing complex logistics and candidate experience in an innovative technology setting
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About Shield AI, Inc.
Shield AI develops autonomous systems and artificial intelligence for defense and commercial aviation. Its Hivemind AI pilot enables unmanned aircraft and drones to operate without GPS, communications, or remote pilots. The company’s products include the V-BAT vertical takeoff and landing drone and software for fighter aircraft autonomy. Founded in 2015, Shield AI serves U.S. and allied military forces, focusing on contested environments and battlefield applications. The company integrates machine learning, sensor fusion, and edge computing to provide resilient, intelligent platforms for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and strike missions.
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