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title: 'Mission Director - IC at Hatch IT'
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# Mission Director - IC at Hatch IT

- **Company:** Hatch IT
- **Location:** Reston, VA
- **Compensation:** $140k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/hatchit/919cecf3-6b65-4ec1-8a0f-7fd8fe472b05

## Job description

hatch I.T. is partnering with Babel Street to find a Mission Director - IC. Please see details below:

## About the Role

Babel Street illuminates identity and information for a safer, more productive world. Engineered for mission-critical applications, their proven AI-powered products transform data into knowledge, build a more complete picture around identity, and discover digital evidence. Their advanced data analytics and intelligence platform, combined with a robust text analytics engine, helps teams rapidly transform massive amounts of global, multilingual data into actionable and contextual insights so they can act with confidence. Every day, we work with their customers in highly-regulated, high-stakes industries such as financial services, healthcare, legal and law enforcement, and the global public sector. The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world. Learn more at babelstreet.com.

Babel Street’s revenue team is seeking a Mission Director for the Intelligence Community (IC). This is a field-based, direct sales role responsible for both client retention and growth through contract expansion and the introduction of new products and services. You will consult with C-level executives to develop and implement an effective, enterprise-wide strategy that maximizes the value delivered by Babel Street's products and services. The right candidate for this role will be an expert at realizing how Babel Street software can support the customers' mission set. Professionalism, strong work ethic, adaptability and expertise selling SaaS solutions to U.S. government customers are key to quota achievement and ultimate sales success.

## About the Company

Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for the world’s most advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. They deliver advanced AI and data analytics solutions providing unmatched, analysis-ready data regardless of language, proactive risk identification, 360-degree insights, high-speed automation, and seamless integration into existing systems. Babel Street empowers government and commercial organizations to transform high-stakes identity and risk operations into a strategic advantage.  The actionable insights we deliver safeguard lives and protect critical assets around the world.  Babel Street is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with regional offices in Boston, MA and Cleveland, OH, and international offices in Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the U.K.

How you’ll be successful:

- Having the ability to navigate a complex sales cycle from start to finish, leveraging internal resources within the larger sales organization, cross functionally with the customer success team and externally across customers
- Strong presentation skills for delivering in-person and virtual presentations to audiences, highlighting your ability to perform client discovery, communicate ROI and build business value
- Actively seek to understand industry trends to help position against competitors
- Craft targeted strategies designed to meet specific client needs and make recommendations based on internal and external factors.
- By becoming a trusted advisor to both customers and colleagues to leverage multiple stakeholders throughout complex deals
- Understanding the client's perspective through research and questioning.
- Presenting solutions based on client input and your proactive research are essential
- Although not mandatory candidates located in VA or DC area preferred.

Education & Experience:

- 5+ years of direct sales experience, including experience selling technology solutions to U.S. Intelligence Community customers
- Experience selling SaaS solutions within the U.S. Intelligence Community and broader Federal market.
- History of consistent quota achievement
- Examples of landing new customer logos
- Strong job tenure: history of displaying loyalty and perseverance through long, stable job tenure and positive career trajectory

Job Essentials:

- Ability to travel domestically up to 5 days per month, if required
- Understanding of MS Office and tools like SFDC or equivalents is important
- Excellent listening and communication skills are required
- TS/SCI with Polygraph required

Benefits at Babel Street (just to name a few...)

- Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurances – for you and your family!
- Retirement Plans: Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match.
- Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives.
- Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays
- Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education.

## About Hatch IT

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hatch I.T. is a specialized tech recruiting partner that connects mission-driven startups with engineering, data, and product talent through flexible hiring models.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Tysons, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Tim Winkler (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Staffing and Recruiting, with a focus on technology roles for startups in defense, healthcare, AI, cybersecurity, and space.
- Target customers: B2B – early-stage and high-growth startups, especially those with a national security, healthcare, or dual-use mission.
- Mission or purpose statement: "Where talent meets mission" – connecting companies with skilled talent who are deeply aligned with the company’s mission and values.

## Products & Services
- **RPO / Embedded Recruiting**: Dedicated recruiters embedded in the client’s culture, managing full-cycle hiring from sourcing to onboarding.
- **Contingency Hiring**: Pay-only-when-you-hire model for hard-to-fill roles.
- **Contract-to-Hire**: Evaluate talent on the job before committing to a full-time hire.
- **Executive Search**: Finding leadership for mission-driven startups.
- **Scale**: Technical consulting and recruiting services for high-growth startups.
- **Stride**: Technical strategy and consulting for early-stage startups.
- **hatchpad**: An online community platform for startup technologists to network, learn, and advance their careers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (no disclosed funding rounds).
- **Key Metric**: 20 employees (down 12% YoY); 94% 1-year retention rate; 28 days average time to hire.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors identified. Partners include startups across defense, healthcare, and cyber sectors.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for 5+ roles (Senior Data Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, etc.) with a 25% monthly increase in job postings; expanding remote/hybrid options; offices in the US and distributed team across 6 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- Specialized focus on mission-driven startups (defense, national security, healthcare, AI) – a niche that traditional staffing firms often overlook.
- Flexible pricing and engagement models (contingency, contract-to-hire, RPO) tailored to startup budgets.
- High retention rates (94%) and fast hiring cycles (28 days) demonstrate effective matching.
- Proprietary community (hatchpad) and content (The Hatch Pad newsletter) to attract and engage technologists.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen partnerships within defense, healthcare, AI, and cybersecurity verticals.
- Scale the hatchpad community to become a go-to resource for startup technologists.
- Maintain a distributed remote/hybrid workforce to access talent globally while supporting clients primarily in the Washington D.C. metro area.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasis on mission alignment, relational (not transactional) approach, and collaborative small-team environment.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid and remote roles available depending on position; some on-site roles in Washington, DC, Arlington, VA, Reston, VA, and Somerville, MA.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**: Not extensively documented, but employee reviews on LinkedIn rate Work-Life, Compensation, and Culture all at 5.0/5.0 (3 reviews). The company invests in professional community through hatchpad.
- **Team**: Small (20–25 employees), with a high proportion of HR and recruiting specialists. Distributed across the US, South Africa, Canada, Romania, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.

## Sources
1. [hatchit.io](https://www.hatchit.io/)
2. [LinkedIn - hatch I.T.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hatch-it)
3. [Built In - hatch I.T.](https://builtin.com/company/hatch-it)
4. [Lever careers page - Hatch IT](https://jobs.lever.co/hatchit)
5. [The Org - hatch IT](https://theorg.com/org/hatch-it)

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