Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.
Whenever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect.
Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
At Metrea, we seek out the most complex national security challenges and proactively develop elegant solutions – those solutions start with our people, and their ability to deliver mission-critical effects around the world.
Our Talent Acquisition team is focused on delivering equally compelling and strategic recruiting solutions to our teammates and business leaders through deep recruiting expertise, a consultative approach, and analytical rigor.
In this role, you will partner closely with leaders across Metrea's global Digital & Synthetic group (i.e. Software Engineering, Product Management, Data Science, Computational Science, etc.) to deliver high-quality hiring that enables the business to scale. You'll manage a broad portfolio of roles ranging from senior, high-touch searches to operational and specialist hiring, while developing deep knowledge of the organisation and its priorities.
You will be successful if you are an experienced in-house recruiter who runs searches with sound judgement, understands when structured approaches are needed and when flexibility adds value, and can confidently influence senior stakeholders with clear recommendations and thoughtful challenge. This role suits someone who can balance breadth with depth and help shape the way talent supports Metrea's mission.
- Lead end-to-end recruitment across a globally dispersed technology division, managing a mix of individual contributor, specialist, and leadership searches
- Partner with hiring managers and senior stakeholders to shape talent strategies that align with business priorities, while eagerly learning the business and educating on recruiting best practices
- Tenaciously source and build pipelines, while engaging and nurturing relationships with candidates and prospects using empathy and transparency, ensuring they're aligned with Metrea's mission and values
- Guide and consult with stakeholders using market knowledge and insights to ensure the best hiring decisions
- Identify opportunities to improve recruitment practices, pipelines, and candidate experience
- Manage multi-step hiring processes across global teams and time zones, ensuring a smooth and high-quality candidate experience
- Champion Metrea's employer brand to attract mission-aligned talent
- In-house recruitment experience in a scaling or fast-changing organisation, managing a broad range of technical roles
- Demonstrated experience recruiting for complex technical skillsets such as software engineering, product management, engineering management, UX/UI, data science, and computational engineering
- Proven ability to consult, partner, and influence, leveraging excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with candidates and stakeholders alike
- Familiarity with a wide range of domain-specific talent markets, including key talent pools and industry trends
- Strong judgement in shaping recruitment approaches and improving processes to deliver high-quality hires
- Track record of building and maintaining diverse, high-quality candidate pipelines
- Experience managing multi-step, complex hiring processes across global teams and time zones
- Ability to balance breadth and depth, adapting to varying role types and business needs
- Experience with Greenhouse or other applicant tracking systems
- Friskvård of 5K annually
- Parental leave
- 5% occupational pension (swe. tjänstepension)
- 30 days of leave
- Bonus Scheme
- Personal development opportunities
The employee will have the legal right to work in Sweden and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
Metrea Management Limited (MAM) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs.
This job operates in an office setting. Hybrid; minimum of 3 days/week onsite.
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At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
