Director of Talent Acquisition

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement a comprehensive Talent Acquisition strategy that aligns with business goals, government contracts, technical initiatives, recruitment activities, and expected workforce expansion.

• Collaborate with executives and business leaders to anticipate workforce requirements, assess contract opportunities, and set recruiting priorities.

• Provide insights on labor markets, compensation, talent availability assessments, and sourcing strategies.

• Identify essential skill shortages and develop proactive talent pipelines for engineering, technical, manufacturing, cleared, and leadership positions.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Talent Acquisition team.

• Create service standards, establish operational rhythms, ensure accountability, and enhance the experiences of candidates and hiring managers.

• Evaluate team skills, requisition workloads, and resource distribution.

• Personally manage or assist in high-level, specialized, impactful, or challenging recruitment searches.

• Enhance practices related to intake, selection, interviews, decision-making, and offer processes.

• Integrate recruiting practices, systems, workflows, and resources across Falcata and its acquired entities.

• Optimize applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, reporting, automation, and responsible AI-enabled recruiting workflows.

• Develop recruiting processes, documentation, controls, service levels, compliance measures, and audit preparedness.

• Oversee external recruiting vendors and agencies.

• Formulate strategies for specialized engineering, technical, manufacturing, production, and cleared positions.

• Cultivate relationships with universities, technical associations, veteran communities, professional networks, and specialized talent sources.

• Collaborate with Security, Legal, HR, and business leaders to address citizenship, clearance, export-control, contract-specific, and other hiring requirements.

• Establish recruiting metrics and leverage data to enhance processes, prioritize resources, and provide visibility to executives.

• Create recruiting budgets, staffing plans, vendor strategies, and technology priorities.

• Advise executives and business leaders on talent market trends, workforce risks, and recruitment strategies.

• Enhance employer branding, employee value propositions, and external talent messaging.

• Advocate for fair, consistent, evidence-based recruiting practices that comply with employment laws and federal contractor requirements.

• Support mergers and acquisitions due diligence, Day 1 readiness, and integration of acquired organizations.

• Build a high-performing Talent Acquisition organization focused on talent development, succession planning, and continuous improvement.

• Develop playbooks, dashboards, governance routines, and escalation pathways.

• Link recruiting efforts to workforce planning, career development, retention, and broader People strategies.

• Support current initiatives, future growth, acquisitions, and rapid workforce scaling.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience, including substantial technical and professional recruiting responsibilities in complex, growth-focused environments.

• At least 5 years of experience in leading, mentoring, and developing recruiting teams or enterprise recruiting functions.

• Proven track record in developing recruiting strategies, optimizing recruiting operations, and facilitating organizational growth at scale.

• In-depth knowledge of full-cycle recruiting, sourcing methods, applicant tracking systems, recruiting analytics, selection processes, and hiring governance.

• Experience in supporting defense, aerospace, government contracting, advanced engineering, manufacturing, or similarly complex technical settings.

• Demonstrated capability to partner effectively with senior executives, P&L leaders, hiring managers, and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, relationship management, and change management skills.

• Experience utilizing recruiting metrics, labor market data, and workforce insights to enhance decision-making and business outcomes.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related field is required.

• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance as required by business needs.

• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background checks, security investigations, and drug screening requirements.

• Preferred: experience in recruiting operations within a midsized defense contractor or a private-equity-backed growth firm.

• Preferred: experience with mergers, acquisitions, workforce transitions, and integrating recruiting teams, systems, and processes.

• Preferred: experience with cleared recruiting, contract capture, proposal staffing, and specialized engineering or manufacturing recruitment.

• Preferred: experience managing recruiting budgets, vendor relationships, workforce planning, automation, AI-enabled workflows, and technology transformation.

• Preferred: familiarity with Deltek Costpoint, Workday, or similar ATS/HRIS platforms and recruiting analytics tools.

• An advanced degree and/or SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or related certification is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Retirement programs.

• Flexible work schedules.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Paid leave.

• Additional benefits subject to applicable plan terms and company policies.