Why AstroTalent
Introduction to AstroTalent
Matt Thomson, founder, on why space hiring is a people problem before it is a technology problem, and how AstroTalent works it from first principles.
For employers
The engineers who decide whether a launch date holds.
In space the technology is not the differentiator. The people are, and they barely exist. AstroTalent runs retained search for space companies: the whole market mapped, the few who can do the work assessed against the work, and the seat filled with someone who has already put hardware into orbit.
How it works
One platform. The data that makes the rest possible.
This board and the intelligence platform behind it track 3,156 open roles at 95 space companies, and the people who can fill them, across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. That data drives four things.
01
Workforce strategy
We turn your technical roadmap into a hiring plan: who you need, in what order, where they physically exist, and where you will struggle. On day one, not six months late.
02
Exclusion search
We start with the entire market, every person who could do the job, and rule people out until only the ones who can are left. Often 65 of the only 100 who exist.
03
First-principles assessment
We assess against the work, not a CV. By the time you meet a finalist, you know they have solved your exact problem and put something into space.
04
Leadership hires
The seats your investors are really betting on. We once placed a programme manager who, eighteen months later, was a COO running over $200m in contracts.
Case studies
For a single senior role, the qualified pool is small enough to count.
Case study · leadership
The leadership hire behind the contracts
A senior hire for a seat investors were betting on. The person we placed went on to win major military contracts for the company.
Case study · rare skills
The one engineer who existed
A specialism so narrow the whole market was a handful of people. We found the one, working on a university project, and closed the search.
We do not sell recruitment. We sell certainty.
The people who let you look your investors in the eye and tell them the launch date holds. Start with a conversation about your hardest seats.
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