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Salary: USD 100,000 - 115,000 / annual
Second Front Systems is seeking a metric-driven Generalist Recruiter to lead full-cycle talent acquisition across engineering, operations, growth, mission success, and sales functions. The role bridges commercial software talent acquisition with mission-driven defense work, requiring sourcing, screening, and placement of candidates who meet both technical and mission-alignment standards.
Key responsibilities include architecting sourcing strategies using Boolean search and LinkedIn Recruiter, managing 8–15 concurrent pipelines in Ashby, reading candidate motivation and closing offers with precision, and synchronizing criteria and feedback with hiring managers across functions. You will own pipeline health metrics, prevent late-stage drop-off, and improve time-to-fill and offer-acceptance rates. The role demands full-cycle recruiting ownership across technical and commercial functions with minimal supervision, passive talent sourcing at scale, offer negotiation, and fluent Ashby operation including pipeline configuration, reporting, and workflow automation.
You will serve as a key partner to hiring managers, keeping searches active, surfacing high-signal candidates ahead of competitors, and maintaining sharp candidate experience. Responsibilities include governing concurrent requisitions end-to-end, synchronizing with hiring managers on role requirements and candidate standards, orchestrating candidate engagement through interview rounds, mitigating cultural misalignment by representing the company's mission authentically, and converting hiring manager specs into sourcing rubrics while pushing back on over-specification and unrealistic timelines.
Required experience includes 3–5 years of full-cycle recruiting across technical and commercial functions, hands-on fluency with Ashby or comparable ATS, recruiting vocabulary across engineering, ops, growth, mission success, and sales, closer's instinct with ability to read motivation and negotiate offers, metrics-driven approach tracking time-to-fill and offer-acceptance rates, startup or high-growth company experience, and familiarity with niche or cleared talent pools including security clearance requirements.
