Recruiter, Mission & Business Operations

As a Recruiter, Mission & Business Operations, you’ll own high-impact hiring across mission, defense business development, business operations, finance and accounting, real estate, and marketing. You’ll lead full-cycle searches for senior and often first-of-function hires whose expertise will directly influence the organization’s ability to scale. The role combines hands-on recruiting with executive search discipline, market mapping, talent advising, and long-term relationship building. You’ll partner closely with hiring managers, challenging assumptions when needed and helping define what exceptional talent looks like for each role. You’ll also recruit specialized defense talent across business development, capture, program management, and mission functions. This is an opportunity to join a fast-moving, high-growth environment where recruiting is treated as a strategic function and every hire can have significant impact.

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including senior or executive-level searches.
• Experience recruiting within or around defense, government, or national security environments.
• Strong understanding of defense business development, capture, and program management functions and the distinctions between them.
• Demonstrated ability to close senior-level candidates who have competing opportunities.
• Strong executive search, market-mapping, sourcing, candidate engagement, negotiation, and closing skills.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with hiring managers and provide direct, thoughtful advice, including when market conditions or role expectations require adjustment.
• Comfortable managing a broad range of searches across functions, from finance and accounting leadership to marketing, real estate, defense business development, and mission roles.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage credibly with executives, technical professionals, operators, and specialized defense talent.
• Strategic, proactive approach to recruiting, with an emphasis on long-term talent relationships rather than purely short-term hiring needs.
• Executive search or agency experience combined with in-house startup experience is a plus.
• Established network within defense business development, capture, military, or related communities is preferred.
• Experience hiring finance, real estate, or marketing leaders at a scaling organization is a plus.
• Military service or experience recruiting veterans and transitioning service members is beneficial.
• Must meet applicable U.S. export-control requirements, including U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, protected-individual status, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.