Strategic Talent Acquisition Leader - Cybersecurity & Tech Hiring

Everfox; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

flexible PTO

a 401k match

contribution to healthcare coverages

Job summary

Everfox in Herndon, VA is seeking a hands-on Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition to lead and strengthen our global recruiting function. This leader will develop a data-driven talent acquisition strategy, build scalable processes, coach the recruiting team, and advise leaders across technical, engineering, product, go-to-market, and corporate functions.

The ideal candidate combines strategic leadership with operational execution and is comfortable leading critical searches when needed.

Qualifications

• Significant progressive Talent Acquisition experience including leadership of recruiters.
• Proven success improving recruiting strategy, operations, processes, and results.
• Experience recruiting across multiple professional disciplines including engineering or cybersecurity.
• Ability to implement structured interviewing and strengthen hiring-manager effectiveness.
• Strong analytics using dashboards and market insights to guide decisions.
• Experience optimizing ATS and recruiting workflows and technology-enabled processes.
• Ability to advise and influence senior leaders, challenge assumptions, and translate business needs into effective talent strategies.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, coaching, and change-management skills.
• Willingness to balance strategic leadership with hands-on recruiting support for critical searches.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an enterprise Talent Acquisition strategy aligned with Everfox’s business priorities and workforce plans.
• Lead, coach, and develop the recruiting team, establishing clear goals, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Partner with executives, hiring managers, HR Business Partners, and Finance to translate workforce needs into actionable recruiting plans.
• Build pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill positions, including cybersecurity, engineering, leadership, and cleared roles.
• Establish structured intake, interviewing, assessment, and selection practices that support consistent, evidence-based hiring decisions.
• Strengthen hiring-manager capability and accountability through training, coaching, clear service expectations, and timely decision-making.
• Improve recruiting operations from headcount approval and requisition creation through offers, preboarding, and onboarding.
• Develop dashboards and operating rhythms that provide visibility into time-to-fill, requisition aging, pipeline health, offer acceptance, candidate experience, and quality of hire.
• Ensure Workday Recruiting serves as the system of record, with strong data quality, governance, and process compliance.
• Use market intelligence, technology, automation, and responsible AI to improve sourcing, efficiency, and recruiting outcomes.
• Partner with Talent Management, HR Operations, and business leaders to advance skills-based hiring and connect hiring outcomes with performance, engagement, and retention.
• Ensure recruiting practices comply with applicable employment, contractual, and security-clearance requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Recruiting Strategy

Stakeholder Mgmt

Data Analytics

ATS Optimization

Cybersecurity Recruiting

Communication

Change Management

Hiring Manager Coaching

Cross-Functional

Job description

Everfox in Herndon, VA is seeking a hands-on Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition to lead and strengthen our global recruiting function. This leader will develop a data-driven talent acquisition strategy, build scalable processes, coach the recruiting team, and advise leaders across technical, engineering, product, go-to-market, and corporate functions.

The ideal candidate combines strategic leadership with operational execution and is comfortable leading critical searches when needed.