Contract Technical Corporate Recruiter - National Defense, Security, Intelligence Community (Remote US) -- 6 month contract role

***US Citizenship is required due to US Government contract requirements***

***This role requires that you must have experience recruiting for technical AI software candidates w/active clearance in the national military, defense, security, and intelligence community***

Role Responsibilities:

• Own Full-Cycle Recruiting: Lead end-to-end recruiting across technical and non-technical functions, with a primary focus on highly specialized marketing, sales, engineering, AI/ML, infrastructure, product, and forward-deployed roles.
• Partner With Leadership: Work directly with executives, hiring managers, and technical leaders to define hiring priorities, calibrate talent profiles, and influence organizational design decisions.
• Build Recruiting Strategy: Develop and execute sourcing and hiring strategies for difficult-to-fill roles in highly competitive markets, particularly within AI, defense technology, and government-adjacent environments.
• Drive Candidate Quality: Maintain a high hiring bar through thoughtful screening, interview calibration, structured evaluations, and strong partnership with interview teams.
• Develop Talent Pipelines: Build proactive pipelines of exceptional candidates through outbound sourcing, networking, referrals, market research, and relationship-building.
• Create Scalable Recruiting Operations: Improve and operationalize recruiting workflows, interview processes, candidate communication standards, and reporting infrastructure to support company growth.
• Deliver Exceptional Candidate Experience: Ensure every candidate interaction reflects professionalism, responsiveness, transparency, and respect throughout the interview process.
• Influence Employer Brand: Help shape how Legion is perceived externally by crafting compelling messaging, partnering on recruiting content, and communicating the company’s mission and technical challenges effectively.
• Advise on Compensation and Closing: Partner with leadership on compensation strategy, equity conversations, and offer negotiations to successfully close high-impact candidates.
• Operate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with engineering, product, security, operations, and executive leadership teams to ensure recruiting efforts align with business priorities.
• Provide Market Intelligence: Continuously gather and communicate insights on hiring trends, competitor activity, compensation benchmarks, and talent market dynamics.
• Own Recruiting Metrics: Track pipeline health, conversion rates, time-to-fill, and hiring efficiency while identifying opportunities to improve recruiting outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience recruiting highly technical talent: Significant experience recruiting for engineering, infrastructure, AI/ML, security, product, or other deeply technical roles in competitive markets.
• Track record of successful hiring execution: Demonstrated ability to close difficult searches and consistently deliver high-quality hires in fast-paced environments.
• Strong sourcing capabilities: Ability to identify, engage, and build relationships with exceptional talent through creative and persistent outbound recruiting strategies.
• Experience working closely with technical stakeholders: Comfortable partnering directly with senior engineers, founders, executives, and hiring managers on role definition and candidate evaluation.
• Excellent communication skills: Able to communicate effectively with candidates and internal stakeholders across all levels of technical sophistication.
• Strong operational mindset: Ability to improve processes, build structure where needed, and operate effectively with limited recruiting infrastructure or support.
• Ability to manage ambiguity: Comfortable operating in an early-stage environment where priorities shift quickly and processes are still evolving.
• High degree of ownership: Able to independently drive recruiting initiatives, prioritize effectively, and execute with urgency and accountability.
• Experience closing senior candidates: Strong ability to navigate compensation discussions, competing offers, relocation considerations, and complex candidate motivations.
• Ability to represent Legion effectively: Capable of articulating Legion’s mission, technology, and long-term vision in a compelling and credible way to candidates.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience recruiting within AI, defense, or national security sectors: Familiarity with cleared hiring environments, government-adjacent technology companies, or mission-driven organizations.
• Startup experience: Experience working at an early-stage or high-growth startup where adaptability and speed are critical.
• Experience building recruiting infrastructure: Familiarity with ATS implementation, interview process design, recruiting analytics, and operational scaling.
• Technical fluency: Ability to understand and discuss modern engineering concepts, cloud infrastructure, AI systems, developer tooling, or distributed systems at a conversational level.
• Experience recruiting cleared talent: Familiarity with recruiting candidates holding SECRET, TS/SCI, or other government clearances.
• Employer branding experience: Experience contributing to recruiting marketing, talent messaging, or external brand positioning efforts.