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 is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia. You would be joining a small but hands on People Team which will help scale the broader Australian team significantly in the coming months and years.
This role is the first dedicated Talent Acquisition lead in Australia, responsible for building and delivering end-to-end recruitment capability across all domains including Aviation, Technical, Enterprise, and Market Development. As a hands-on, player-coach, you will lead hiring execution while shaping the recruitment function, bringing structure, market insight, and disciplined sourcing to support both current operations and future growth. A key component of the role is partnering to provide talent intelligence, build forward-looking pipelines, and support workforce readiness for new programs and market entry initiatives.
This role is critical to enabling Metrea’s growth in Australia. If this challenge excites you, we would love to hear from you.
End-to-End Recruitment Delivery
- Own and deliver full-cycle recruitment across aviation, technical, enterprise, and leadership roles
- Drive high-quality hiring outcomes in a low-volume, high-complexity environment
- Manage sourcing, screening, process design, offer negotiation, and closing
Market Development & Workforce Readiness
- Build proactive pipelines for critical and hard-to-find roles ahead of demand
- Provide talent intelligence including market mapping, competitor insights, and availability of key skill sets
Talent Strategy & Function Build
- Establish scalable recruitment practices, tools, and rhythms aligned with Metrea’s global standards
- Introduce disciplined sourcing, pipeline management, and hiring tracking
- Support employer brand development within the Australian defence and aviation market
Stakeholder Partnership
- Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and leaders
- Challenge hiring assumptions and guide decision-making using market insight and data
- Align hiring activity with workforce planning and operational priorities
Candidate Experience & Representation
- Deliver a high-quality, transparent, and professional candidate experience
- Represent Metrea’s mission, firmware, and operating model effectively to candidates
- Build long-term relationships within key talent communities
- Rooted in Humility: You value the universal over the personal. Maximising what you know, skeptically filtering what you believe you know, and further limiting what you project to know
- 5–8+ years recruitment experience across complex or technical environments
- Demonstrated experience hiring across multiple functions (e.g. aviation, technical, G&A)
- Familiarity with a wide range of domain-specific talent markets, including key talent pools and industry trends. With strong sourcing capability and ability to build pipelines from scratch
- Experience operating in ambiguous or build-phase environments
- Ability to engage senior stakeholders and influence hiring decisions
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust, credibility, and influence stakeholders and candidates alike
- Familiarity with a wide range of domain-specific talent markets, including key talent pools and industry trends
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced complex environment, collaborating with multiple stakeholders across different teams and time zones
- Ability to obtain and maintain Australian baseline security clearance
In addition to the above, any of the following would be beneficial:
- Experience in defence, aviation, or adjacent regulated industries
- Exposure to workforce planning or supporting growth / bids
- Experience building or scaling a recruitment function
- Familiarity with Australian talent markets, particularly defence and aviation
- Private Health Insurance
- Generous PTO
- Annual incentive plan
- Paid parental leave
- Life and disability insurance
- Income Protection Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Novated Car Leasing
Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA Security Clearance.
We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.
Domestic travel within Australia and occasional International travel (UK/US).
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.
