About the Agency
The Arena is a talent services company that works only in defense and national security. It recruits for companies that build for the Department of Defense, including defense tech firms entering or growing in the federal market, and takes on roles such as first federal hires and positions that need security clearances, from clearable through Secret and Top Secret to TS/SCI with a Full Scope Polygraph.
Its main service is direct-hire search, run on a contingency basis with no retainer. The fee is between 20% and 30% of the hire's first-year base salary, and much of the sourcing is cold outreach to people who are not looking. It also offers forward deployed recruiters embedded in client teams, hiring strategy and process design, talent and market intelligence, and fractional and advisory talent.
The Arena says most of its clients are teams of two or ten people hiring properly for the first time. Its founder served in the Navy. It publishes a job board of open roles at the defense tech companies it tracks, and Arena Insights, an analysis of defense tech hiring.
Is this your agency?
Show your live jobs, your team, featured candidates and verified client and candidate reviews on this page. They update automatically once you connect Refari.