Talent Acquisition Partner II - University Recruiting (Temporary)

Rocket Lab · Long Beach, CA

Posted Oct 9, 2026

Est. total comp~$37–$62/hr

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ABOUT ROCKET LAB

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us.

PEOPLE & CULTURE

Rocket Lab’s People & Culture team is responsible for looking after our most valuable asset: our people. Across our global teams, the People & Culture team supports our people and departments across recruitment, new staff orientation, compensation, training and development. They make sure our growing and diverse global team is supported and capable of delivering our projects and customer’s missions, and they’re responsible for supporting their development, nurturing their skills and talent, and retaining the world-class people already on our team.

TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER II - UNIVERSITY RECRUITING

Based onsite at Rocket Lab’s global headquarters in Long Beach, CA, the Talent Acquisition Partner is responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with hiring managers and candidates alike to fill highly critical roles. This is a full life-cycle recruitment position – you will own everything from initial sourcing and screening to extending offers. …

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Crew department: Command

Skills this kind of role usually asks for:

Customer-facing work
Spreadsheets and financial models
Writing clear proposals and contracts
Negotiation
Hiring and interviewing

Train for it: the Command Track: Contracts, Money, Hiring and Planning. 4 short modules, a quiz after each one and a final test. Pass it and you get the Mars Mining Certificate in Operations Leadership Fundamentals, with its own public page you can link from your resume.

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I can do Customer-facing work on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Spreadsheets and financial models on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Writing clear proposals and contracts on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Negotiation on the job, or have used it in a class or project I can do Hiring and interviewing on the job, or have used it in a class or project I have a project or work sample I could show an interviewer My resume is tailored to this kind of role I've practiced answering interview questions for this kind of job

Free. The department comes from the job title and can be off. A Mars Mining certificate shows you studied and passed our test; it isn't a license or academic credit.

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