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ashby

Technical Sourcer

Outset
San Francisco, USA
Full-time
Mid · 3+ years experience
Hybrid
USD 140000-190000 yearly / year
Discovered 1 months ago
LinkedIn RecruiterGitHubStack OverflowAshbyGreenhouseLever

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Responsibilities

  • Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to deeply understand role requirements, technical stacks, business priorities, and ideal candidate profiles.
  • Build targeted talent maps and pipelines by function, skill set, geography, company background, and domain expertise.
  • Identify and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, technical communities, open-source projects, industry events, referrals, alumni networks, and other creative sourcing channels.
  • Use Boolean search, X-ray search, talent intelligence tools, and market research to uncover qualified candidates for difficult and niche technical searches.
  • Write thoughtful, personalized outreach that communicates the company’s mission, engineering challenges, technical environment, and career opportunity.
  • Conduct initial candidate conversations to assess core qualifications, technical relevance, motivation, location, compensation alignment, and interest.
  • Present well-calibrated candidates to hiring teams, including clear sourcing context and relevant technical background.
  • Maintain accurate, timely candidate activity and pipeline data within Ashby.
  • Track sourcing funnel performance, outreach response rates, candidate quality, diversity representation, and pipeline health; use insights to improve strategy.
  • Share market intelligence with recruiting and engineering leadership, including talent availability, competitor activity, skill-set trends, location constraints, and candidate feedback.
  • Develop and maintain long-term candidate relationships and talent communities for future hiring needs.
  • Support inclusive sourcing practices by broadening search strategies, diversifying talent channels, and helping reduce bias in talent identification.
  • Improve sourcing processes through documentation, automation, tooling, and repeatable research methods.

Qualifications

  • 3 - 6 years of technical sourcing experience.
  • Demonstrated experience sourcing for technical roles, such as backend, frontend, full-stack, platform, mobile, data, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, DevOps/SRE, security, or engineering leadership.
  • Ability to evaluate technical profiles based on programming languages, frameworks, architecture, infrastructure, scale, product domain, and depth of ownership—not solely titles or employer names.
  • Strong familiarity with technical sourcing channels, including LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow or developer communities, open-source ecosystems, conference communities, and referral networks.
  • Expertise in Boolean and X-ray search, candidate research, talent mapping, and building pipelines for difficult-to-fill roles.
  • Strong written communication skills and the ability to craft authentic, customized outreach that resonates with technical audiences.
  • Experience using applicant tracking systems, recruiting CRMs, and sourcing tools; familiarity with Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Gem, SeekOut, hireEZ, LinkedIn Recruiter, or similar platforms is a plus.
  • Ability to manage multiple searches, changing priorities, and fast-moving stakeholder needs while maintaining an exceptional candidate experience.
  • Strong partnership and consultative skills, including the ability to influence hiring teams using market data and sourcing insights.
  • A data-informed, detail-oriented approach to measuring sourcing effectiveness and improving outcomes.
  • Commitment to inclusive hiring practices and expanding access to technical opportunities.
  • Familiarity with modern technical stacks and concepts, such as Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, distributed systems, data platforms, LLMs, MLOps, observability, or application security.

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