Senior/Staff/Principal Talent Acquisition Consultant (USDS)

About Skylight

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

About the job

As a Talent Acquisition Consultant, you’ll partner with USDS delivery teams, leadership, and HR to run and continuously improve technical recruiting and hiring operations. Working day-to-day with the client team, you’ll help USDS staff the right people for complex, high-impact work that directly affects how the public experiences government services. You’ll optimize sourcing, screening, and interview coordination, and you’ll use service-design–informed approaches like workflow mapping and process iteration to reduce time-to-fill and improve the reliability of end-to-end hiring workflows.

What you’ll do

• Partner with hiring managers, delivery leads, and the client’s HR team to align staffing needs with contract requirements and delivery timelines
• Support full-cycle recruiting for technical and delivery roles across engineering, design, product, data, and research
• Source and engage candidates through targeted outreach using established recruiting workflows and tools
• Conduct initial candidate screens to assess skills, interest, availability, and alignment with role requirements
• Coordinate interviews end to end, including scheduling, candidate communications, and interviewer readiness
• Develop and maintain recruiting documentation, including SOPs, interview guides, and hiring rubrics
• Track, analyze, and report on key recruiting metrics like time-to-fill, pipeline health, and sourcing effectiveness
• Ensure accurate, up-to-date data across recruiting systems and tools
• Identify bottlenecks and drive measurable improvements to end-to-end recruiting workflows to reduce hiring cycle time and improve predictability
• Deliver a clear, consistent, and professional candidate experience throughout the process
• Support onboarding readiness and smooth candidate-to-employee transitions in partnership with the client’s HR team

What we're looking for

Minimum qualifications

• Experience supporting technical recruiting in an in-house, consulting, or agency setting
• Proven ability to source and recruit for roles such as software engineer, product manager, product designer, researcher, and data roles (data analyst, data scientist, or data engineer)
• Experience conducting candidate screens to assess skills, interest, availability, and alignment with role requirements
• Strong understanding of recruiting workflows, pipeline management, and hiring operations
• Experience working in highly regulated, delivery-oriented, or project-based environments
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and sourcing tools
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Commitment to a clear, consistent, and respectful hiring process
• Ability to work effectively in a professional services environment
• Passion for improving public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that align with Skylight’s core values
• Ability to travel for work from time to time

Nice-to-have qualifications

• Understanding of how modern tech teams are structured and collaborate
• Experience improving recruiting operations through process design, workflow mapping, and operational improvement initiatives
• Experience working in modern govtech or public-sector digital environments
• Familiarity with federal hiring constraints, including public trust or security clearance requirements
• Experience working in a remote-team environment

Don’t meet every qualification but think you can do the job? We’d still love to hear from you. If you’re excited about the role, apply. We consider candidates with a range of backgrounds and experiences.

Other requirements

• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clea