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About the Role
Our client, a consumer technology platform used by millions, seeks a Technical Sourcer to support complex engineering searches by activating passive candidates. This is a temporary, U.S.-based contract position.
Responsibilities
- Partner with hiring managers and technical leaders to understand role requirements, technical stack details, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles, and convert them into sourcing criteria.
- Conduct total addressable market research to size talent pools, assess hiring feasibility, and set realistic timelines for niche technical roles.
- Build job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations, identifying companies with relevant technical stacks, and creating target account lists aligned to the client’s technical architecture and culture.
- Build and run a customized sourcing strategy for each requisition using boolean search, x-ray techniques, GitHub sourcing, and competitive intelligence to find and activate passive talent in specialized areas.
- Identify and engage talent in their fields, and work with recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize teams.
- Write personalized outreach that explains the client’s technical challenges and shows real understanding of each candidate’s work, including outreach to passive senior and staff-level engineers and engineering leaders.
- Own the candidate experience from first outreach through recruiter handoff, with consistent communication, clear expectations, and smooth transitions.
- Represent the client at company events, technical conferences, meetups, and industry events, and build long-term relationships and talent communities for sustained pipeline development.
- Keep strong data hygiene across recruiting systems and track pipeline health metrics, including interested response rate, activation rate, next step pass-through rate, and source effectiveness, and use that data to refine sourcing approaches and demonstrate ROI.
Requirements
- 5+ years of technical sourcing or recruiting experience, preferably in a high-growth tech company, on job profiles such as distributed systems and product engineering.
- Demonstrated success hiring senior, staff, and principal-level engineers and engineering managers in competitive, constrained talent markets.
- Strong technical aptitude: able to understand complex engineering roles, evaluate technical qualifications, and translate requirements into sourcing signals and candidate evaluation criteria.
- Expert-level boolean search and advanced sourcing methods, including x-ray searches, GitHub and repository mining, conference and publication tracking, and creative talent identification beyond traditional platforms.
- Proficiency with SeekOut, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse), plus hands-on experimentation with AI tooling.
- Expertise in market mapping and talent pool analysis, including sizing addressable markets, assessing hiring feasibility, identifying capability gaps, and giving data-backed insight on competitive talent dynamics.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a record of building trust and influence with technical hiring managers, interview teams, and senior leadership through structured insights.
- Strong pipeline management: able to prioritize and balance multiple requisitions at different stages in a fast-paced environment.
- Proven record sourcing developers, full-stack engineers, and feature development talent.
- Data-driven approach to tracking, analyzing, and reporting on key sourcing metrics (interested response rate, activation rate, conversion ratios, source effectiveness) and turning findings into strategy adjustments.
Skills
- Boolean search
- X-ray techniques
- GitHub sourcing
- Competitive intelligence
- SeekOut
- Gem
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- GitHub
- Greenhouse
- AI tooling
- Market mapping
- Talent pool analysis
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
- Pipeline management
- Data analysis
- Data reporting
Location
- U.S. based
- Remote within the U.S.
- San Francisco Bay Area preferred
Work Type
- Temporary
- Contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Staff
- Principal
Salary/Compensations
- $75 per hour
About the Company
- Employer.com is part of a family of incredible brands alongside Flawless Recruit and Recruiter.com.
- Together, we provide talent acquisition services to fit the unique hiring challenges of our clients; whether building recruiting processes, attracting top talent, or payrolling contractors, we can help.
- Our client is a consumer technology platform used daily by millions of people.