Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Trusted Connectivity for AI-Powered Dominance. Everfox delivers trusted connectivity to protect the world’s most critical environments and safeguard the sensitive data powering decision advantage. Built for mission-critical operations, Everfox protects what matters most by securing how data moves, how users access it, and how threats are neutralized across every domain. We enable mission speed and secure collaboration across networks, domains, and allies, while ensuring the data powering AI and advanced analytics remains trusted and protected. We don’t just defend systems; we deliver decision dominance. Our Purpose. Protect what matters most by enabling organizations to operate security in the most complex and high-risk digital environments. Our Vision. To be the most trusted authority in high-assurance cybersecurity, enabling secure collaboration across every domain. Our Belief. Security should never limit mission success – it should enable it. Our Promise. We deliver absolute confidence in environments where failure is not an option. We’re hiring for a hybrid role. You’ll work on-site with your team several days each week (typically 2-3), with the specific days set by your manager. Because regular in-person collaboration is central to this job, we look for candidates who live within about 50 miles of the office. Everfox will consider reasonable accommodation as required by law. Title: Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition Location: Herndon, VA (Hybrid) About the Role Everfox 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. This role will help Everfox anticipate workforce needs, strengthen talent pipelines, improve hiring quality and speed, and deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring-manager experience. What You’ll Do 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. Required Qualifications Significant progressive Talent Acquisition experience, including leadership of recruiters or a recruiting function. Demonstrated success improving recruiting strategy, operations, processes, and results within a complex or growing organization. Experience recruiting across multiple professional disciplines, ideally including engineering, product, cybersecurity, government contracting, or cleared positions. Proven ability to implement structured interviewing and strengthen hiring-manager effectiveness. Strong analytical capabilities and experience using recruiting data, dashboards, and market insights to guide decisions. Experience optimizing applicant tracking systems, recruiting workflows, and technology-enabled processes. Ability to advise and influence senior leaders, challenge assumptions, and translate business needs into effective talent strategies. Strong communication, relationship‑building, coaching, and change‑management skills. Willingness to balance strategic leadership with hands‑on recruiting support for critical searches. Preferred Qualifications Experience in cybersecurity, defense technology, aerospace, government contracting, or another highly technical industry. Experience recruiting for positions requiring U.S. government security clearances. Experience with Workday Recruiting. Experience supporting recruiting across U.S. and international markets. Experience implementing skills-based hiring, talent market intelligence, structured selection practices, or responsible AI-enabled recruiting tools. What Success Looks Like Improved quality of hire and early retention. Reduced time-to-fill and requisition aging. Stronger pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles. Consistent, structured, and timely hiring decisions. Increased offer acceptance and positive candidate experiences. Clearer leadership visibility into recruiting performance and talent‑market conditions. A trusted Talent Acquisition function that actively contributes to workforce planning and business strategy A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is: $170,600.00-220,900.00 USD The actual salary offered may vary within the range based on a candidates' unique experience, locale, and business needs. In addition to a base salary and bonus plans, Everfox offers a generous benefits package including flexible PTO, a 401k match, and contribution to healthcare coverages. Our Talent Acquisition team will provide specific information regarding bonus eligibility and benefits offerings. ________________________________________________________________ Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. If there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team. Everfox is an equal employment opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws prohibiting discrimination. Everfox does not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital status, medical condition, or any other category protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to View email address on click.appcast.io. Everfox is a Federal Contractor. 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