Technical Recruiter

Summary

Agile Defense supports national security and critical civilian missions through adaptive innovation, advanced technologies, and specialized talent. The Technical Recruiter independently manages full-cycle recruiting for technical and cleared positions, builds hiring-manager relationships, maintains compliance, and leads a process-improvement project while developing toward senior portfolio ownership.

Responsibilities

• Independently run the full recruiting toolkit. Within 90 days, manage a caseload of full-cycle requisitions across the full range of technical and cleared complexity — sourcing, screening, interviewing, negotiating, and closing — with only light oversight from a Senior Technical Recruiter or Recruiting Lead
• Build real clearance fluency, including your first higher-tier searches. Within 6 months, be fully fluent explaining the clearance process
• Own stakeholder relationships on your reqs. Build direct, trusted working relationships with the hiring managers on your caseload — providing market feedback, pipeline updates, and honest guidance without needing a more senior recruiter to translate for you
• Take ownership of a small project. Lead at least one defined project or initiative beyond your own req load per year — for example, piloting a new sourcing channel, refining a screening guide, or improving one piece of the intake process — from proposal through completion
• Maintain compliance accuracy independently. Handle all compliance requirements (EEO/OFCCP, clearance documentation, interview documentation) on your reqs with consistent accuracy and minimal correction needed
• Make AI part of your daily practice, and widen your pipelines. Identify and adopt at least one recurring AI-assisted efficiency in your own workflow, and be able to describe how it's changed your day-to-day work — while applying deliberate sourcing practices that widen and diversify your candidate pipelines, with specific actions you can point to
• You'll report to a Senior Technical Recruiter or Recruiting Lead and carry a caseload across the full range of technical/cleared complexity — typically 12 to 18 concurrent requisitions — as part of a broader team recruiting across DoD, Fed Civ, Homeland Security, Combatant Command, and Fourth Estate customers

Skills

• A demonstrated track record independently running full-cycle recruiting across the full range of technical, cleared complexity — you're not intimidated by a hard req
• Working knowledge of the federal clearance process up through Top Secret/SCI and polygraph-level searches
• A track record of hiring managers trusting your judgment on their reqs — you're seen as a partner, not just a processor
• Experience proposing or improving something beyond your own req load, even in a small way
• Personal habits or practices around using AI tools to work more efficiently, paired with the judgment to know where automation helps and where it shouldn't touch the candidate experience
• A genuine, active interest in building more diverse candidate pipelines, with specific examples of actions you've taken, not just good intentions
• Location: 100% Remote (U.S.) | Travel: Minimal / occasional (client sites in the US or Reston, VA / McLean, VA & the DMV region)
• Ideal locations outside of the DMV: Greater Tampa, FL region, Ft Huachuca, AZ
• Clearance: Must be clearable for a U.S. Secret security clearance (minimum)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• A demonstrated track record independently running full-cycle recruiting across the full range of technical, cleared complexity — you're not intimidated by a hard req
• Working knowledge of the federal clearance process up through Top Secret/SCI and polygraph-level searches
• A track record of hiring managers trusting your judgment on their reqs — you're seen as a partner, not just a processor
• Experience proposing or improving something beyond your own req load, even in a small way
• Personal habits or practices around using AI tools to work more efficiently, paired with the judgment to know where automation helps and where it shouldn't touch the candidate experience
• A genuine, active interest in building more diverse candidate pipelines, with specific examples of actions you've taken, not just good intentions
• Location: 100% Remote (U.S.) | Travel: Minimal / occasional (client sites in the US or Reston, VA / McLean, VA & the DMV region)
• Ideal locations outside of the DMV: Greater Tampa, FL region, Ft Huachuca, AZ
• Clearance: Must be clearable for a U.S. Secret security clearance (minimum)

Benefits

• 100% Remote (U.S.)
• Minimal / occasional travel
• A supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes
• A culture of mutual respect
• Open communication and a willingness to learn from one another