Talent Acquisition Sourcer

Responsibilities

Build and Execute Sourcing Strategies

• Lead sourcing strategies for complex, high-priority, and difficult-to-fill searches across technical, go-to-market, general and administrative, leadership, and specialized functions.
• Translate business needs, role requirements, and talent-market dynamics into targeted search strategies and actionable sourcing plans.
• Identify and engage passive talent through advanced research, diverse sourcing channels, networks, communities, and creative approaches.
• Manage multiple searches independently and adjust strategies based on pipeline performance, candidate feedback, market conditions, and changing priorities.

Source Technical and Specialized Talent

• Develop deep knowledge of the company’s product, technology, business, and technical culture to identify suitable candidates.
• Translate highly technical or nuanced profiles into effective talent searches with Talent Acquisition Partners and hiring teams.
• Research adjacent companies, technologies, open-source ecosystems, communities, and talent pools.
• Build credibility with technical and specialized talent by understanding their backgrounds, motivations, and interests.

Use Data and Market Intelligence

• Assess pipeline health, identify hiring risks, and improve sourcing strategies using sourcing data and market insights.
• Conduct talent mapping and market research on talent availability, competitive landscapes, geographies, and hiring challenges.
• Identify market constraints and opportunities and recommend adjustments to profiles, locations, or sourcing approaches.
• Provide actionable market-intelligence recommendations to Talent Acquisition Partners, leadership, and hiring teams.

Champion Inclusive Sourcing

• Build inclusive sourcing strategies across diverse backgrounds, experiences, communities, and career paths.
• Challenge unnecessarily narrow search criteria and recommend ways to broaden qualified talent pools.
• Identify communities, networks, and sourcing channels that expand access to talent.
• Use research and pipeline data to improve sourcing approaches and candidate representation.

Engage and Cultivate Talent

• Create compelling, personalized outreach for highly sought-after candidates and complex talent markets.
• Build relationships with passive talent and cultivate pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Assess candidate interest, motivation, experience, and alignment before transitioning candidates into the recruiting process.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition Partners to ensure seamless handoffs and a strong candidate experience.

Elevate Sourcing Practices

• Collaborate across Talent Acquisition on complex searches, sourcing strategy, candidate calibration, and hiring priorities.
• Facilitate sourcing jams and share advanced sourcing techniques, market intelligence, search strategies, and talent insights.
• Build reusable talent maps, research resources, and sourcing frameworks.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition Operations and leadership to improve sourcing tools, workflows, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled practices.

Requirements

• 6+ years of talent sourcing and/or recruiting experience, including significant experience sourcing highly competitive talent in high-growth or highly technical environments.
• Experience sourcing across multiple functions, including highly technical Engineering and Product talent, as well as complex, leadership, or specialized searches.
• Advanced expertise in sourcing techniques, talent research, market mapping, competitive intelligence, and building pipelines beyond traditional candidate pools.
• Ability to understand complex or ambiguous roles and independently translate them into sophisticated sourcing strategies.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to use sourcing data and market intelligence to influence search strategies and engage sought-after talent.
• Ability to partner with Talent Acquisition Partners, hiring managers, and senior leaders, exercising judgment to challenge assumptions and recommend changes.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities independently while collaborating across Talent Acquisition and improving sourcing practices through knowledge sharing, tools, AI, and emerging approaches.

Nice to Have

• Experience sourcing infrastructure, networking, security, developer tools, distributed systems, cloud, or similarly technical engineering talent.
• Experience finding technical talent through open-source ecosystems, GitHub, technical communities, research, and channels beyond traditional recruiting platforms.
• Experience supporting executive or confidential searches and sourcing globally across North America, EMEA, and/or APAC.
• Experience building talent maps or market intelligence that influenced hiring strategy or broadened how exceptional talent is defined.
• Experience facilitating sourcing jams or sharing advanced sourcing practices across a Talent Acquisition team.
• Demonstrated ability to find and effectively engage exceptional candidates who are difficult to reach.

Compensation

• Base salary range: CAD $134,000–$174,200.
• Compensation also includes equity and comprehensive benefits.