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
Important: 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 clearance.
- You may be required to complete a company background check successfully.
- Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.
Position type
This is a full-time, exempt position.
Location
This is a fully remote position.
Care package
Salary
We want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a Talent Acquisition Consultant at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:
- Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant: $150,000–$185,000
- Staff Talent Acquisition Consultant: $170,000–$203,000
- Principal Talent Acquisition Consultant: $180,000–$230,000
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
- Flexible paid-time-off-policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
- 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
- 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 are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.
