This is a U.S. based position. All of the programs we support require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment. All work must be conducted within the continental U.S.
Who we are:
Raft (https://TeamRaft.com) is a customer-obsessed non-traditional small business with a purposeful focus on Distributed Data Systems, Platforms at Scale, and Complex Application Development, with headquarters in McLean, VA. Our range of clients includes innovative federal and public agencies leveraging design thinking, cutting-edge tech stack, and cloud-native ecosystem. We build digital solutions that impact the lives of millions of Americans.
We’re looking for an experienced Recruiting Manager to support our customers and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers.
About the role:
As a Recruiting Manager at our organization, you play a pivotal role in helping scale Raft. At Raft, we’re passionate about delivering innovative tech solutions that make a real difference. Our people are the heart of what we do, and we’re looking for a talented Recruiting Manager to help us build and grow our team. If you thrive in fast-moving environments, love leading remote teams, and enjoy finding the perfect fit for both people and roles, we’d love to meet you!
What we are looking for:
- 10+ years of experience in recruiting, with strong expertise in the defense environment
- Hands-on experience recruiting cleared positions ranging from Public Trust to TS/SCI w/Poly
- Experienced in leading and managing remote recruiting teams with a hands-on, collaborative approach
- Well-versed in the full lifecycle proposal process, including RFIs and RFPs
- Comfortable working closely with leadership at all levels, including the C-suite
- Skilled in senior-level recruiting and identifying top talent for key roles
- Thrive in fast-paced, ever-changing environments and can adapt quickly to shifting priorities
- Able to balance quick-turn recruiting needs with long-term, strategic talent planning
- Experienced in supporting a scaling company by building systems and processes to ensure sustainable growth
What you will do:
- Lead the recruiting process across teams, ensuring smooth communication between recruiters and hiring managers
- Track and manage key recruiting metrics, including time-to-fill and recruiter performance, ensuring high-quality outcomes
- Be a supportive, team-first leader who fosters a collaborative and positive work environment
- Manage the RFI/RFP recruiting efforts in partnership with our Growth team to meet proposal goals
- Maintain a recruiting workload, staying actively involved in sourcing and engaging top talent
- Support leadership hiring, working closely with executives to ensure the best talent joins our team
- Build and optimize systems and processes to support our continued growth and scalability
Highly preferred:
- Has led proposal pricing conversions
- Has built and tracking internal recruiting metrics
- Hands-on experience with Greenhouse
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree
Clearance Requirements:
- U.S. Citizenship/Public Trust
Work Type:
- Remote
- May require up to 10% travel
What we will offer you:
- Highly competitive salary
- Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) and company match
- Take as you need PTO + 11 paid holidays
- Education & training benefits
- Annual budget for your tech/gadgets needs
- Monthly box of yummy snacks to eat while doing meaningful work
- Remote, hybrid, and flexible work options
- Team off-site in fun places!
- Generous Referral Bonuses
- And More!
Our Vision Statement:
We bridge the gap between humans and data through radical transparency and our obsession with the mission.
Our Customer Obsession:
We will approach every deliverable like it's a product. We will adopt a customer-obsessed mentality. As we grow, and our footprint becomes larger, teams and employees will treat each other not only as teammates but customers. We must live the customer-obsessed mindset, always. This will help us scale and it will translate to the interactions that our Rafters have with their clients and other product teams that they integrate with. Our culture will enable our success and set us apart from other companies.
How do we get there?
Public-sector modernization is critical for us to live in a better world. We, at Raft, want to innovate and solve complex problems. And, if we are successful, our generation and the ones that follow us will live in a delightful, efficient, and accessible world where out-of-box thinking, and collaboration is a norm.
Raft’s core philosophy is Ubuntu: I Am, Because We are. We support our “nadi” by elevating the other Rafters. We work as a hyper collaborative team where each team member brings a unique perspective, adding value that did not exist before. People make Raft special. We celebrate each other and our cognitive and cultural diversity. We are devoted to our practice of innovation and collaboration.
We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
What We Do
Raft is a digital consulting firm with niche expertise in the rapid delivery of modern, user-first, scalable, and data-intensive digital solutions. We accelerate the missions of our federal partners through human-centered design (HCD) and agile development practices, bringing deep technical expertise in DevSecOps, Kubernetes management, cloud-native microservice architectures, and secure, open source delivery.
We put our people and our culture first. We work with some of the smartest, hardest working experts in their field. We owe it to them to make sure our team is free of meaningless restrictions and internal politics so they can focus on what they love, finding innovative solutions.
We build off the Open-Source and resist vendor lock in. That way you’re not paying us to reinvent the wheel, our solutions play nice with others and are always adaptable.
We know digital innovation doesn’t always operate during bank hours, so neither do we. (It's also why we don’t dress like bankers.) We aren’t afraid to go the extra mile or put in the extra time to find a solution. We get it right the first time; we won’t waste our time (and your money) trying to fix something that’s fundamentally broken. It’s kind of like making an exceptional cup of coffee, if the beans are roasted wrong, it doesn’t matter how much pumpkin spice you dump in your cup, it’s still not going to taste great.
And above all else we’re up for a challenge; it’s in our DNA. Ask us about something that’s never been done, or better yet something that can’t be done, and we’ll find a way to do it. It’s just who we are.
If you need a partner that’s looking toward the future and not the past, don’t go traditional, go Raft.
Why Work With Us
Raft partners with public agencies to solve hard complex problems that impact the lives of millions of Americans. We work hard to make it easy for humans to connect with data.
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