[Hiring] Senior Technical Recruiter @Agile Defense

Role Description

Senior Technical Recruiter is where portfolio ownership becomes the job. Agile Defense needs experienced recruiters who can own a full portfolio of technical, cleared requisitions and the senior stakeholders behind them — Program Managers, Directors, Capture leads — end-to-end, while coaching and raising the floor for the Recruiter I's and II's around them.

This is the senior individual-contributor delivery seat on the team: the recruiter other people's hardest searches get routed to, and the proving ground for anyone interested in the operational or people-leadership track that follows — Recruiting Lead or Recruiting Manager.

Performance Objectives — What Success Requires

• Own a full portfolio of senior stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach junior recruiters.
• Recommend and contribute to process improvement.
• Deliver consistently on the hardest searches.
• Model AI-enabled, human-led recruiting.
• Champion diverse, qualified slates.

What Success Looks Like

• First 90 Days: You've absorbed your portfolio, built credibility with senior stakeholders, and are operating independently across the full complexity range, including TS/SCI and polygraph searches.
• First 6 Months: At least one recruiter you're coaching is noticeably more capable than when you started, and you've brought at least one credible process recommendation forward.
• First 12 Months: You're a recruiter your Recruiting Lead or Manager routes the hardest, most senior, or most sensitive reqs to — and you're ready to consider whether your next step is deeper portfolio ownership, a Recruiting Lead track leading a program or workstream beyond delivery, or people management.

Your Scope & Environment

You'll report to the VP of Talent Acquisition and own a full portfolio — typically 15-20+ concurrent requisitions — for mid-to-senior technical and programmatic roles, working alongside the Recruiter I/II teammates you help develop and partnering closely with HR, Security/Facility Security Officers (FSO), compensation, and contracts staff.

Expect real ownership of the relationships that matter most to a program's success, and real influence over how the team works — without yet carrying the org-wide program-building, prioritization, or escalation responsibilities that define a Recruiting Lead.

What You Bring

• A demonstrated track record independently owning full-cycle recruiting for technical, cleared positions up through TS/SCI with polygraph.
• A track record of informally or formally coaching other recruiters and genuinely wanting to see them grow.
• Confidence managing multiple senior stakeholders at once, including the ability to push back, advise, and influence a hiring decision when the data says you should.
• Experience building or meaningfully improving a process, tool, or workflow, and partnering with hiring managers to make it stick.
• A genuine, demonstrable personal interest in applying AI to recruiting work, paired with a firm point of view on where automation belongs and where it doesn't.
• A real, lived belief that diverse slates and diverse interview panels produce better hiring outcomes, evidenced by specific outcomes you've driven.
• Working knowledge of how federal contract cycles — recompetes, awards, labor categories, staffing plans — shape hiring urgency and timing.

Clearance, Location & Travel

• Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
• Travel: Minimal / occasional (client sites in the US or Reston, VA / McLean, VA & the DMV region)
• Clearance: Must be clearable for a U.S. Secret security clearance (minimum)
• Salary: $110,000 - $120,000 a year

Our Core Values

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.

• Happy - Be Infectious.
• Helpful - Be Supportive.
• Honest - Be Trustworthy.
• Humble - Be Grounded.
• Hungry - Be Eager.
• Hustle - Be Driven.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.