Hiring: Talent Acquisition Lead Company: Intrepid Prosperity Location: Greater Tampa Bay Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:16:01 Employment Type: Contract / Hybrid About the job Experience: •5+ years full-cycle recruiting, with 2+ in a lead or management capacity (team leadership, or clear ownership of a desk, client book, or process) Required Skills: •The desk. You personally run searches: cleared technical talent (Data, DevSecOps, AI and ML, Cloud, Software at TS/SCI, SCI, Secret) and leadership hires for our portfolio and private equity clients. •The system. Own how we recruit end to end: intake and scorecards, sourcing strategy, interview design, ATS discipline, offer and close, KPI reporting. Sharpen what exists. Build and document what does not. •The client relationship. Run intake with hiring managers and executives, push back on requirements the market will not clear, and say so when there is an org design problem behind the req. •The growth. Spot where clients need more than we are giving them, and bring it back as new work. •You build. You have walked into a partial process and made it whole. You do not need the runway paved before you will move. •You do not wait to be told. At this size, the difference between a good hire and a great one is the number of things that get done without anyone assigning them. •You get involved because it is necessary, not because you are willing. You will source, screen, and chase a candidate on a Friday night to save a start date. That is what owning an outcome looks like here. •You turn vision into action. Objective to sequenced steps with owners and dates, driven to done. Strategy that stays a slide is not strategy. Qualifications: •Agency, staffing, or RPO background in a small firm where you owned more than delivery •Private equity portfolio or post-close talent experience •Organizational design or talent consulting: workforce planning, comp benchmarking, org structure, hiring manager enablement •Structured hiring methodology: scorecards, behavioral interviewing, chronological or Topgrading-style evaluation •Government contract vehicles (IDIQ, BPA, OTA), DCWF, DoD 8140, or NICE labor categories •Military veteran or military spouse with defense community connections •An established network of DoD talent and of the decision makers who need our services •Base salary plus uncapped commission. Scope and pay grow with the function you build. Direct access to ownership, no layers, hybrid in Tampa. •At a large staffing firm, you are one of two hundred recruiters competing for the same reqs inside a process someone else designed. Here you are building the function. If you want to be handed a playbook, this is the wrong seat. If you want to write one, we should talk. Compensation: •$80,000 - $200,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!