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Salary: USD 140,000 - 200,000 / annual
Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing cybersecurity company building the NodeZero platform, which delivers autonomous pentests and security assessments across internal, external, cloud, and hybrid environments. The platform is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, MSSPs, and MSPs, and has been adopted by organizations ranging from educational institutions to Global 100 enterprises and government agencies.
The company is seeking a Senior Technical Recruiter, Federal to build the talent engine for Horizon3's Federal business. This is a full-cycle recruiting role focused on the Department of Defense, military services, defense agencies, and adjacent Federal organizations, with particular emphasis on candidates with specialized cybersecurity experience and security clearances.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own full-cycle recruiting (intake through close) for Federal GTM and technical roles across sales, account management, capture, business development, solutions engineering, customer success, cybersecurity, engineering, and product functions
- Partner with hiring managers and leadership to define role profiles, interview plans, sourcing strategies, and hiring plans
- Build and maintain high-quality, diverse pipelines across Federal roles
- Develop a strong network across the Federal ecosystem, including DoD, military services, defense agencies, systems integrators, and mission-focused technology organizations
- Recruit candidates with active, recent, or relevant security clearances; understand clearance eligibility, adjudication timelines, and role-specific constraints
- Create repeatable sourcing strategies for difficult-to-reach talent, including passive candidates, cleared professionals, veterans, and military-to-industry talent
- Conduct structured screens assessing role-relevant capability, judgment, motivation, communication, and cultural alignment
- Build credible relationships with candidates across GTM and technical disciplines, with ability to engage in informed conversations about cybersecurity, cloud, software, Federal missions, and commercial growth
- Partner with interview teams to maintain rigorous, consistent, and equitable assessment processes
- Serve as trusted advisor to hiring managers: provide market insight, create clarity, challenge assumptions, and push back on ineffective search strategies
- Manage complex offer processes and close candidates thoughtfully, including compensation alignment, leveling, competing offers, mission fit, remote-work considerations, and clearance-related timing
- Deliver exceptional candidate experience while maintaining discretion around clearance status and sensitive information
- Use recruiting data to identify bottlenecks, improve funnel health, measure pipeline quality, and increase recruiting efficiency
- Help establish scalable Federal recruiting infrastructure, including talent maps, evergreen pipelines, market intelligence, referral strategies, and operating rhythms
- Continuously evaluate and improve recruiting processes, bringing creativity and practical experimentation to hiring
The role is remote with a strong preference for candidates based in or around the Washington, DC area / National Capital Region to support relationships across the Federal hiring ecosystem. Occasional travel may be required.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Proven experience as a full-cycle recruiter supporting both go-to-market and technical hiring, ideally in cybersecurity, defense technology, national security, government contracting, or related high-growth environments
- Demonstrated success recruiting across the Defense Technology Ecosystem, with established network and practical understanding of how cleared and clearance-eligible talent evaluates opportunities
- Experience hiring for some combination of Federal sales, business development, capture, solutions engineering, customer success, cybersecurity, engineering, product, or other specialized technical roles
- Working knowledge of security-clearance recruiting, including clearance terminology, transferability considerations, adjudication timelines, and importance of careful, accurate candidate communication
- Strong technical acumen and ability to learn new technical domains quickly enough to assess talent and have credible conversations with engineers, cybersecurity practitioners, and technical customer-facing candidates
- Strong negotiation and closing skills, with track record of earning trust and closing candidates in competitive markets
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to engage and influence candidates, hiring managers, executives, and cross-functional partners
- High social aptitude and relationship-building ability—build trust quickly and maintain long-term candidate and stakeholder relationships
- Experience operating with a high talent bar and applying structured, evidence-based judgment across different candidate backgrounds and career paths
- Ability to balance speed and quality, especially when business urgency, scarce talent, and clearance timelines create competing pressures
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently, prioritize effectively, and drive processes forward in evolving environment
- Data-driven mindset with focus on improving recruiting outcomes, efficiency, consistency, and candidate experience
- Sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive information
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience recruiting for a Federal startup, defense technology company, cybersecurity company, government contractor, or systems integrator
- Existing relationships with cleared talent communities, veteran and military-transition networks, Federal professional associations, or defense and national-security technology communities
- Experience recruiting candidates with TS/SCI, SCI, polygraph, or other specialized clearances
- Familiarity with mission areas and broader defense technology landscape
- Experience building a recruiting function, market map, evergreen pipeline, or repeatable sourcing program from the ground up
- Coursework or degree in business, human resources, psychology, information technology, or related field
- Previous experience in sales, research, operations, customer service, information technology, administration, or another relevant field
