# Talent Acquisition Sourcer

**Company:** [Tailscale](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tailscale)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** CA$134k – CA$174k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Talent Sourcing, Recruiting, Talent Mapping, Market Research, Competitive Intelligence, Candidate Outreach, Pipeline Analytics, GitHub, Open-Source Ecosystems, Technical Recruiting, Sourcing Strategy, Ai-Enabled Recruiting
**Posted:** 2026-08-28

> Senior individual contributor responsible for sourcing and engaging exceptional talent across technical, product, leadership, and specialized searches. The role requires 6+ years of sourcing or recruiting experience, advanced talent research capabilities, and technical fluency.

## Job Description

## 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.

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