# Creative Talent Sourcer/Recruiter

**Company:** [Taste Labs](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/taste-labs)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Recruiting
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** LinkedIn, Airtable, Notion, juicebox, heyreach, Clay, React, Next.js, Swift, SwiftUI, dribbble, behance, discord, reddit
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Sources, screens, and onboards creative and technical freelance talent across US and LATAM markets. The role requires 3–6+ years of recruiting or talent operations experience, strong organization, creative-community fluency, and technical understanding of design and frontend disciplines.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Sourcing & Outreach
- Source exceptional design and engineering talent across LinkedIn, portfolio platforms, social channels, creative communities, and other relevant networks.
- Build pipelines across international markets, with a focus on US and LATAM talent pools.
- Run and manage high-volume outreach campaigns across multiple channels.
- Research portfolios and identify candidates aligned with the quality bar.
- Build and maintain sourcing pipelines for multiple concurrent roles.
- Identify strong creative and technical communities across North, Central, and South America.

### Screening & Evaluation
- Review applications against portfolio quality, skillset fit, rate, availability, and assessment readiness.
- Manage early candidate engagement and communication across email and messaging platforms.
- Support candidates across time zones with timely, thoughtful communication.
- Build shortlists for project-specific staffing in collaboration with the Recruitment Lead.
- Help assess candidate fit for international freelance and contract-based project work.

### Talent Operations
- Coordinate assessments, including distributing tests, tracking submissions, following up, and routing results for review.
- Support compliance and contracting workflows, including background checks and onboarding documentation.
- Support expert onboarding logistics and project kick-off coordination.
- Maintain clean, accurate records in the talent database and keep the pipeline organized.

## Requirements

- **3–6+ years** of recruiting, sourcing, or talent operations experience, ideally in creative, design, or technology recruiting.
- Based in US/LATAM time zones and able to provide meaningful coverage across North, Central, and South American working hours.
- Understanding of creative and technical talent, including distinctions among brand, product, art direction, web, UX, and advanced new media disciplines.
- Sufficient technical fluency to understand frontend engineering and design engineering roles.
- Exceptional organization and ability to manage high volume across multiple projects and candidate threads.
- Fast, responsive, entrepreneurial, resourceful, and comfortable building processes in a changing environment.
- Ability to thrive under pressure and manage real deadlines and client needs.
- Candidate-obsessed approach with strong communication and respect for the expert experience.
- Familiarity with design and engineering communities across X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Discord, Dribbble, Behance, portfolio sites, and niche creative communities.
- Globally minded, with experience recruiting international freelance or contract talent across time zones or willingness to build that capability quickly.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Recruiting creative, design, engineering, or AI-adjacent talent across US and LATAM markets.
- Experience with AI-powered sourcing and outreach tools such as Juicebox, HeyReach, or Clay.
- Experience with operational platforms such as Airtable or Notion.
- Experience with compliance workflows, background checks, contractor agreements, or payment onboarding.
- Experience with global freelance or contractor recruitment at scale.
- Experience supporting distributed teams or talent communities across multiple regions.

## Compensation & Work Arrangement

- 40 hours per week with flexibility; project load may vary based on client needs and pipeline volume.
- Month-to-month, open-ended contract.
- Remote role, with a strong preference for candidates based in US or LATAM to support expanded international time-zone coverage.
- Potential path to full-time employment for the right person, but not guaranteed.

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