Discord · 4 hours ago
Technical Sourcer (Temporary)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$132K/yr - $165K/yr
5+ years expDiscord is a platform used by over 200 million people monthly, focusing on enhancing communication for gamers. They are seeking a strategic Technical Sourcer to support complex engineering roles by conducting market intelligence, sizing talent pools, and executing sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill positions.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Benefits
Benefits
Company
Discord
Discord is an online voice, video, and text communication platform designed for creating communities.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$995.41MKey Investors
Flat CapitalDragoneer Investment GroupSony Interactive Entertainment
2024-03-01Secondary Market
2022-11-22Series I
2022-03-12Secondary Market· $10.86M
Leadership Team
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
CTO & Co-Founder
Mike Polner
VP, Global Head of Marketing
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