Discord

Imagine a place

Technical Sourcer – Temporary

Technical RecruiterTechnical RecruiterFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2015H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California

Posted

43 days ago

Salary

$132K - $165K / year

5 yrs expEnglishCloudDistributed SystemsRay

Job Description

• Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders to deeply understand role requirements, technical stack nuances, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles, translating technical requirements into effective sourcing criteria. • Conduct comprehensive total addressable market (TAM) research to size talent pools, identify hiring feasibility, and inform realistic hiring timelines for niche technical roles. • Develop detailed job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations, identifying companies with relevant technical stacks, and creating target account lists that align with Discord's technical architecture and culture • Build and execute customized sourcing strategies for each requisition, leveraging boolean search, x-ray techniques, and competitive intelligence to uncover and activate passive talent in highly specialized areas • Identify and engage talent in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize our teams • Craft highly personalized, compelling outreach campaigns that articulate Discord's unique technical challenges and demonstrate genuine understanding of candidates' work, engaging even the most passive senior, staff-level engineers and engineering managers. • Own candidate experience from initial outreach through recruiter handoff, maintaining consistent communication, setting clear expectations, and ensuring smooth transitions that reflect Discord's candidate-first approach. • Represent Discord's engineering brand at technical conferences, meetups, and industry events, building long-term relationships and nurturing talent communities for sustained pipeline development • Practice strong data hygiene across our recruiting systems and maintain rigorous pipeline health metrics including interested response rates, activation rate, next step pass-through rate, and source effectiveness, using data to continuously optimize sourcing approaches and demonstrate ROI.

Job 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 and 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 beyond traditional platforms
  • Proficiency with modern sourcing tools and platforms, including SeekOut Recruit, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and applicant tracking systems (Ashby or Greenhouse) and open-mindedness to experimenting with AI tooling.
  • Expertise in market mapping and talent pool analysis, with ability to size addressable markets, assess hiring feasibility, identify capability gaps, and provide data-backed insights on competitive talent dynamics to inform hiring strategy.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and influence technical hiring managers, interview teams, and senior leadership through structured insights and consultative partnership
  • Strong pipeline management capabilities with ability to rigorously prioritize and balance multiple requisitions at varying stages simultaneously in fast-paced, dynamic environments
  • A proven track record of successfully sourcing candidates in areas such as cloud infrastructure, distributed computing, systems engineering, and feature development
  • Data-driven mindset with ability to track, analyze, and report on key sourcing metrics (interested response rates, activation rates, conversion ratios, source effectiveness) and translate insights into actionable strategy adjustments

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