Remote TA Business Partner - GovCon Recruiting USA — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is listed as fully remote, which is a strong start for location flexibility — but there are important caveats for digital nomads to understand before getting excited.
US-only restriction: The job is explicitly scoped to the US market (government contracting, OFCCP compliance, security clearance pipelines). While the posting doesn't formally exclude international applicants, the nature of the work — recruiting cleared US government contractor talent — functionally requires operating on US business hours (ET/CT/PT) and maintaining professional availability for fast-moving proposal deadlines. Async-friendliness is limited; compressed capture timelines mean responsiveness is critical.
Travel requirement: The role requires occasional in-person attendance at recruitment events, job fairs, and industry conferences (likely in the DC Metro / Northern Virginia corridor, a hub for cleared government contractors). This limits true location independence.
- Visa consideration: This role is almost certainly restricted to US citizens or permanent residents due to the security clearance and OFCCP regulatory context.
- No salary disclosed, so cost-of-living comparisons aren't possible, but mid-senior government contracting TA roles typically pay $80K–$110K annually — comfortable in lower-cost US cities but not competitive for expensive nomad hubs abroad.
- No travel perks (coworking stipend, equipment budget) are mentioned explicitly.
Bottom line: This is a US-based remote role, not a true location-independent position. Nomads outside the US or those seeking async flexibility should look elsewhere.
Company Summary
Arlo Solutions (Arlo) is an information technology consulting services company that specializes in delivering technology solutions. Our reputation reflects the high quality of the talented Arlo Solutions team and the consultants working in partnership with our customers. Our mission is to understand and meet the needs of both our customers and consultants by delivering quality, value-added solutions. Our solutions are designed and managed to not only reduce costs, but to improve business processes, accelerate response time, improve services to end-users, and give our customers a competitive edge, now and into the future.
Position Overview
The Talent Acquisition (TA) Business Partner, Growth & Capture owns full-lifecycle recruiting for pre-award and proposal-stage hiring, partnering directly with Capture Managers and Program Managers to build contingent-hire pipelines that support active bids and proposal submissions. The role moves at the pace of the capture cycle — sourcing, screening, and securing qualified, clearance-eligible candidates on compressed timelines to strengthen the company's competitive position on new business.
Work Location: Remote
Clearance: N/A
Job Responsibilities and/or Success Factors
- Partner with Capture Managers and Program Managers to translate labor categories, comp bands, and clearance requirements into strategic sourcing plans
- Drive day-to-day strategy execution for Talent Acquisition related to Business Development and Pre-Award stages; report daily, weekly, and monthly updates to Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition and key internal stakeholders
- Manage full-cycle recruiting — intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and closing — for positions tied to active and upcoming proposals
- Build and maintain contingent-hire pipelines and candidate resume packages tied to specific bids and proposal submissions
- Proactively anticipate capture needs and build pipelines ahead of requisitions being opened, rather than working from assigned requisitions
- Move quickly on compressed proposal timelines while maintaining candidate quality and clearance eligibility
- Build and maintain a qualified, cleared candidate pipeline using sourcing platforms and referrals
- Maintain accurate, complete requisition and candidate data to support compliance recordkeeping and KPI reporting
- Deliver a consistent, high-touch candidate experience from first contact through onboarding handoff
- Flag at-risk requisitions to the Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition with a recommended course of action
- Coordinate with other Talent Acquisition Business Partner(s) on shared systems, cross-track surge support, and handoffs as roles convert from proposal to active contracts
- Represent the company at recruitment events, job fairs, and industry conferences as needed
Education and Minimum Qualifications
- 5–8 years of full-lifecycle recruiting experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong sourcing skills across professional networking and clearance-focused sourcing platforms
- Ability to manage a high-volume requisition load under compressed, deadline-driven timelines
- Self-directed and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy — this role requires proactively engaging capture and program stakeholders to surface upcoming needs, and proactively strategizing around those needs by considering internal fills versus external hires for net new work
- Comfortable partnering with capture/program leadership and TA leadership
- Working familiarity with EEO/OFCCP compliance basics and the impacts to recruitment and hiring
- Comfortable working fully remote with occasional travel for recruitment events, job fairs, and conferences
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting in a government contracting / cleared environment (pre-award and post-award hiring)
- Experience building robust pipelines for cleared and/or technical talent (Cyber, IT, Intel)
- Clearance & labor-category fluency; strong understanding of the cleared-talent market and how roles map to labor categories
- Self-direction and operating with autonomy and minimal oversight
- Reporting and data fluency; strong background in workforce planning data and applying reports and analytics to day-to-day Talent Acquisition (data-driven approach)
- Experience supporting proposal or capture efforts, including contingent-hire pipelines and labor-category matching
AAP Statement
We are proud to be an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and as such, we evaluate qualified candidates in full consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, and any other protected status.
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