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
Since launching several years ago, our team has grown rapidly. We find ourselves in an exciting position to further deepen our partnerships within the government contracting space, to continue to attract and retain amazing teammates, and to scale our capacity to make an even bigger difference in the world.
Currently, our company is organized into three main groups: Executive Office (sets and operationalizes the strategic direction of the company), Human Services (focused on clients such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and Defense Services (focused on clients such as the U.S. Air Force).
As a Talent Sourcer, you’ll collaborate across the company, working directly with the Head of Recruiting and hiring managers to build up and manage Skylight’s pool of qualified hiring candidates.
What you’ll do
- Understand Skylight’s current and future hiring needs
- Develop sourcing strategies for identifying candidates from diverse technology-related talent pools
- Contact and engage candidates to qualify them for technical and cultural fit
- Build a robust pipeline of talent using our applicant tracking system
- Act as a brand ambassador for Skylight by communicating and championing our valuation proposition in order to attract highly-sought-after talent
- Help ensure candidates have an excellent recruiting and interviewing experience, regardless of the outcome
- Continually keep abreast and drive the adoption of emerging best practices for candidate sourcing
- Engage in the continual improvement of Skylight’s sourcing strategies, operations, and practices, with a relentless focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion
What we're looking for
Minimum qualifications
- Previous sourcing experience at an in-house or agency environment
- Experience sourcing for one or more of the following roles: product manager, product designer, software engineer, or data engineer
- Experience conducting candidate preliminary screenings in order to gather information such as general interest level, availability, and skills
- Ability to work independently, solve problems proactively, and develop creative approaches to sourcing and engaging candidates
- Experience and a passion for creating and ensuring positive candidate experiences
- Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter to conduct effective search strategies
- Experience ensuring the accuracy of data in our applicant tracking system (we currently use Greenhouse)
- Flexibility to adapt to the dynamic nature of hiring and staffing in our professional services environment
- Passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Great organizational skills, including attention to detail
- Great written and oral communication skills
- Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services
- A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
- Ability to travel for work from time to time
Nice-to-have qualifications
- Prior experience working in the civic tech space
- Experience working in a remote-team environment
Don’t meet 100% of the criteria but think you can do the job? We’d love to chat anyway! We’re on a mission to build diverse teams, and studies have shown that women and marginalized folks are less likely to apply to jobs if they don’t check every box.
Other requirements
- All work must be conducted within the U.S.
- 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 clearance.
Position type
This is a full-time, exempt position.
Location
This is a fully remote position.
Care package
Salary
The salary range for this position is between $75,000 and $95,000.
Benefits
Your well-being is important to us, so we focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:
- Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
- Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
- Paid time off, including 20 vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and flexible sick leave
- Up to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
- Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
- Business development / sales bonuses
- Referral bonuses
- Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
- Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
- Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
- Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
- Access up to $1,000 before payday to cover emergency expenses
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
- An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good
Interview tips
- Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.
- Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.
- If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at recruiting@skylight.digital.
We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.
We're an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
