Senior Lead, TA & PX Systems Administration (R6368)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. Job Description: The Senior Lead, TA & PX Systems Administration supports Shield AI's entire Talent Acquisition technology ecosystem, including the ATS, CRM, sourcing tools, and other recruiting technology, along with third-party HR technology such as Lattice, Pave, Compa, and Carta. The role is hands-on, administering and continuously optimizing Ashby as Shield AI's ATS and CRM, and partners with People Technology leadership to build the roadmap for TA and HR technology. The role is an individual, hands-on position at the start. As Shield AI scales, it is expected to grow into a player-coach role that builds and leads a TA and PX systems team. It works with recruiters, hiring managers, Talent Acquisition leadership, People Experience Operations, Total Rewards, People Analytics, Finance, Procurement, IT, Security, and other cross-functional partners to turn business requirements into durable system design, and to keep TA and PX systems well-configured, well-integrated, and well-governed. What you'll do: Partner with People Technology leadership to build and maintain the roadmap for TA and HR technology, aligned with TA and PX priorities and Shield AI's growth plans, and lead execution of roadmap initiatives. Support the full TA technology ecosystem, including the ATS, CRM, sourcing tools, scheduling, assessments, background check, interview intelligence, and related recruiting technology. Personally administer, configure, and continuously optimize Ashby as Shield AI's ATS and CRM, including approvals, offers, requisitions, pipelines, interview plans, scheduling logic, scorecards, custom fields, and reporting objects. Administer and support third-party HR technology, including Lattice, Pave, Compa, and Carta, covering configuration, permissions, integrations, and upgrade management. Support TA and HR technology vendor management, including evaluations, implementations, contract renewals, license administration, business reviews, and performance against service commitments, in partnership with People Technology leadership, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Security. Define integration architecture across the TA and PX stack, including UKG, O365 / calendar, identity and SSO, and the PX data platform, and manage change control and monitoring. Translate business and process requirements from TA and PX stakeholders into clear system design decisions, trade-offs, and configuration; recommend priorities across competing requests; and document the resulting workflows, permissions, and data model. Establish and maintain data governance for TA and PX systems, including field taxonomies, PII classification, role-based access, retention, naming conventions, and reporting boundaries aligned to the broader PX Analytics Estate. Lead release management and UAT for TA and PX system changes, including test plans, sandbox validation, rollout, and audit-ready documentation. Keep recruiting and PX data pipelines reliable enough for executive reporting, with clean source data, consistent definitions, and reporting objects that downstream analytics can trust. Track the TA and PX technology market, evaluate new capabilities and vendors, and build recommendations on where to configure, integrate, consolidate, buy, or hold. Ensure TA and PX systems support compliance with applicable data privacy, security, and recordkeeping requirements, including EEO, OFCCP, and GDPR, by maintaining system controls and supporting audits. As the funct…

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