Lead Recruiter

Agile Defense•McLean, VA

4d•$130,000 - $140,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Recruiter serves as a senior recruiting lead supporting the execution of the company’s hybrid talent acquisition delivery model. Reporting to the Vice President, Talent Acquisition, this role is responsible for leading full-cycle recruiting efforts for priority, technical, cleared, and business-critical positions while helping coordinate recruiting activity across internal stakeholders and external recruiting partners. This role partners closely with hiring managers, recruiting vendors, People Operations Business Partners, and business leadership to drive recruiting execution, candidate pipeline development, and hiring outcomes. In addition to managing high-priority requisitions, the Lead Recruiter provides guidance to recruiters and recruiting partners, supports recruiting operations initiatives, and helps ensure recruiting performance, responsiveness, and accountability across the organization. The ideal candidate is an experienced full-cycle recruiter with expertise in cleared and technical recruiting, recruiting operations, stakeholder management, and recruiting delivery within government contracting, defense, technology, or similarly regulated environments. This role requires strong sourcing and recruiting execution skills, operational discipline, relationship management capability, and the ability to perform effectively in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Leadership, or related field preferred.
Minimum of 5–8 years of progressive recruiting or talent acquisition experience.
Minimum of 2–4 years supporting cleared, technical, or government contracting recruiting environments preferred.
Demonstrated experience leading full-cycle recruiting efforts for technical, cleared, and business-critical positions.
Experience supporting recruiting operations within government contracting, defense, technology, or other regulated industries preferred.
Proven success recruiting for cleared, technical, cybersecurity, engineering, and business-critical positions.
Experience supporting hybrid recruiting delivery models, including outsourced recruiting providers and staffing agencies.
Strong expertise in full-cycle recruiting, sourcing strategy, candidate engagement, and recruiting operations.
Experience supporting recruiting operations, workforce planning, recruiting analytics, and process improvement initiatives.
Strong understanding of federal contracting recruiting environments, OFCCP, EEO, and cleared hiring compliance requirements.
Strong organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple requisitions and competing deadlines.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
Ability to influence hiring managers and operate effectively in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
Strong analytical and reporting skills with the ability to interpret recruiting metrics and hiring data.
Advanced proficiency with ATS platforms, recruiting technologies, sourcing tools, and workforce analytics systems including Lever, Workday Recruiting, Greenhouse, or similar platforms.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting AI/ML, cybersecurity, defense, engineering, or highly specialized technical recruiting functions.
Familiarity with GovCon labor categories, proposal staffing, recompete staffing, and cleared talent markets.
Experience mentoring recruiters, recruiting coordinators, or junior recruiting staff.
Experience utilizing recruiting automation tools, AI-enabled sourcing technologies, and advanced sourcing platforms.
Experience supporting geographically dispersed or multi-site recruiting operations.
Experience developing recruiting dashboards, scorecards, or recruiting performance reporting.

Responsibilities

Leading full-cycle recruiting efforts for priority, technical, cleared, and business-critical positions.
Coordinating recruiting activity across internal stakeholders and external recruiting partners.
Partnering closely with hiring managers, recruiting vendors, People Operations Business Partners, and business leadership to drive recruiting execution, candidate pipeline development, and hiring outcomes.
Managing high-priority requisitions.
Providing guidance to recruiters and recruiting partners.
Supporting recruiting operations initiatives.
Ensuring recruiting performance, responsiveness, and accountability across the organization.

Benefits

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental.
Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots.
Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together.
Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.
What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do.
Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions.
It's how we show up every day.
It's who we are.
Happy - Be Infectious.
Helpful - Be Supportive.
Honest - Be Trustworthy.
Humble - Be Grounded.
Hungry - Be Eager.
Hustle - Be Driven.