Your Dream. Our Team.

About Rise8

We’re transforming the United States Government and we know that takes a dream team. 

We believe customer experience starts with employee experience, so we take care of our employees. We offer competitive pay and benefits, invest in employee growth, and offer a culture you can’t find anywhere else.

At Rise8, we continuously achieve unreached heights through next-level tech, and on-the-level collaboration. Together, we create continuous impact. We turn breakdowns into breakthroughs, make small steps into giant leaps, and deliver game-changing products through culture-changing process.

We pair Risers with their customer counterparts and practice pairing at every moment to elevate people and teams and deliver results fast and forever. We work in small teams and rotate between them frequently so that we are able to meet new challenges and explore new ideas.

Our methodology is about experimenting and learning, and our culture is empowering. We subscribe to an ethos of kindness. We make a point to bring empathy to each and every project and are guided by a promise and a purpose: to deploy critical outcomes to prod in order to drive relentless progress. Not just an idea. But an outcome. A better world. A world where every day, fewer bad things happen because of bad software.

Rise8 is certified as a Great Place to Work with 100% of employees saying they love working here.

As a Talent Assessment Specialist at Rise8, you will:

Strengthen our hiring rigor and candidate experience by running structured Topgrading interviews, assessing Talent as it aligns to our values, ensuring a pipeline of A Players, and supporting interviewer training and calibration. You’ll be the lead on interviewer quality, helping ensure that hiring decisions are consistent, evidence-based, and aligned to Rise8’s values and competency model. This role partners closely with Enablement to support future learning initiatives but initially focuses on execution and operational excellence.

• Conduct structured interviews and Topgrading-style deep interviews for mid-to-senior level candidates; synthesize findings into concise candidate summaries and hiring recommendations.
• Execute high-quality interviewer training and calibration sessions using existing materials: facilitate workshops, deliver training, collect feedback, and maintain trainer resources.
• Ensure interview artifacts (scorecards, notes, decision memos) are complete, objective, and stored in Greenhouse (or the ATS).
• Partner with Enablement to identify gaps in interview coverage and recommend immediate fixes to reduce hiring risk.
• Help maintain and refine competency models and role-specific interview guides in partnership with People Ops and Enablement.
• Provide coaching to interviewers post-interview where needed (e.g., how to ask follow-up questions, avoid bias).
• Measure interviewer performance and feedback quality; report metrics and trends to leadership.
• Support short-term projects related to interview process improvements (e.g., panel sequencing, scorecard templates, candidate experience touchpoints).
• Escalate systemic issues or policy questions to People Ops; recommend but do not own large-scale process redesigns initially.
  
  

Qualifications:

• 3–6 years of experience in recruiting, Top Grading, talent assessment, or talent operations.
• Direct experience conducting structured interviews and synthesizing interview evidence into hiring recommendations. Experience with Topgrading or comparable deep-interview techniques is strongly preferred.
• Strong facilitation skills and experience running training or calibration sessions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication — can summarize complex human performance into concise, actionable notes.
• Experience with an ATS (preferably Greenhouse) and collaborating with recruiting teams.
• High integrity, strong bias for objectivity, and proven ability to handle confidential information.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving remote environment; able to prioritize and manage multiple requisitions and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of Organizational Psychology
• Familiarity with interviewer scoring rubrics, behavioral interviewing frameworks, or assessment centers.
• Experience partnering with Enablement/L&D on micro-learning or workshop delivery.
• Certified Topgrading interviewer, or training/certificate in structured interviewing, selection assessment, or similar.

Salary 

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $120,000 to $150,000 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. 

Benefits 

• Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce 
• Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
• Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
• Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 11 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
• Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
• Home Office and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
• Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year. 
• Rise8 is part of the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
• Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro

All of Rise8’s work in this area is with Federal Government customers that require our employees involved with their projects be U.S. citizens. As such, this role requires U.S. citizenship. If hired, you would also be required to go through a background investigation.

Rise8 is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider you for this role regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.