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About the Role
Discord's Talent team is seeking a strategic Technical Sourcer to support complex engineering roles by activating passive candidates. You will partner directly with engineering leadership to conduct market intelligence, size talent pools, and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles.
Responsibilities
- Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders to understand role requirements, technical stack nuances, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles.
- Conduct comprehensive total addressable market (TAM) research to size talent pools, identify hiring feasibility, and inform hiring timelines for niche technical roles.
- Develop detailed job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations and identifying companies with relevant technical stacks.
- Build and execute customized sourcing strategies for each requisition, leveraging boolean search, x-ray techniques, and GitHub sourcing to uncover and activate passive talent.
- Identify and engage talent in their respective fields, and partner with recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize teams.
- Craft highly personalized, compelling outreach campaigns that articulate Discord's unique technical challenges and demonstrate understanding of candidates' work.
- Own candidate experience from initial outreach through recruiter handoff, maintaining consistent communication and setting clear expectations.
- Represent Discord's brand at company events, technical conferences, meetups, and industry events, building long-term relationships and nurturing talent communities.
- Practice strong data hygiene across recruiting systems and maintain rigorous pipeline health metrics, using data to continuously optimize sourcing approaches and demonstrate ROI.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in technical sourcing or recruitment, preferably in a high-growth tech company environment, on job profiles such as distributed systems and product engineering.
- Demonstrated success hiring senior, staff, principal-level engineers, and engineering managers in competitive, constrained talent markets.
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand complex engineering roles, evaluate technical qualifications, and effectively translate technical requirements into sourcing signals and candidate evaluation criteria.
- Expert-level proficiency with boolean search techniques and advanced sourcing methods, including x-ray searches, GitHub/repository mining, conference/publication tracking, and creative talent identification strategies.
- Proficiency with modern sourcing tools and platforms, including SeekOut, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse), and experimenting with AI tooling.
- Expertise in market mapping and talent pool analysis, with the ability to size addressable markets, assess hiring feasibility, identify capability gaps, and provide data-backed insights on competitive talent dynamics.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and influence technical hiring managers, interview teams, and senior leadership.
- Strong pipeline management capabilities with the ability to rigorously prioritize and balance multiple requisitions at varying stages simultaneously.
- A proven track record of successfully sourcing candidates in areas such as developers, full-stack engineers, and feature development.
- Data-driven mindset with ability to track, analyze, and report on key sourcing metrics and translate insights into actionable strategy adjustments.
Skills
- Boolean search
- X-ray techniques
- GitHub sourcing
- Market intelligence
- Talent pool analysis
- Candidate outreach
- Data hygiene
- Pipeline management
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
Location
- US-based
Work Type
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff
- Principal
Salary/Compensations
- $132,000 to $149,000
Benefits
- Benefits
About the Company
- Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.
- Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission!
Equal Opportunity
- Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.