Senior Executive Sourcer

Western Digital Corporation; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Digital Corporation is seeking a Senior Executive Sourcer who thrives in talent discovery and can translate complex requirements into a precise sourcing strategy. You’ll own market intelligence, pipeline cultivation across functions, and strategic partnerships with recruiters and leaders worldwide.

In this greenfield role, you will leverage AI tools to build scalable sourcing workflows, identify talent from the executive ranks, and influence hiring decisions with data-driven insights to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of sourcing experience for technology companies with a focus on leadership, executive talent and/or executive technologists.
• Proven track record in market mapping, competitive intelligence, and executive candidate generation (Sr. Director to C Suite).
• Deep expertise in advanced Boolean search and use of unique tools & methods to access executive talent (e.g., conference speakers, Pitchbook & Crunchbase).
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives with data to allow informed decision-making.
• Hands‑on experience building or leveraging AI-powered sourcing workflows, agentic AI tools, workflow automations, or practical AI solutions that improve recruiting or business processes.
• Direct experience using AI development environments or coding assistants to create repeatable sourcing workflows, structured research outputs, market intelligence, process automation, or operational documentation.
• Experience applying methods or building tools to manage & cultivate pools of talent.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to engage executive candidates and influence stakeholders.
• Fluent in developing slide presentations & documents to succinctly inform executive hiring managers & partners.
• Strong judgment, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset with the ability to evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies to improve recruiting outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead Top of Funnel Strategy: Partner closely with recruiters and hiring leaders to define target profiles and build deep, data-informed sourcing strategies across multiple functions.
• Deliver Market Mapping: Develop comprehensive talent landscapes across the AI Infrastructure ecosystem by company, skillset, geography, and organizational structure; identify hidden talent pools, competitor insights, and emerging talent trends to inform recruiting strategy and workforce planning.
• Attract & Engage: Use advanced Boolean search techniques, sourcing platforms, and creative sourcing channels to identify, engage, and attract exceptional executive technical talent.
• Create a Talent Pool Strategy: Cultivate long-term relationships with passive and highly specialized executive talent to enable speed of hire and succession plan execution.
• Leverage AI to Efficiently Scale: Design, build, and continuously improve AI-powered sourcing workflows, research agents, and practical automations that increase recruiting productivity, accelerate candidate discovery, enhance market intelligence, and improve operational efficiency.
• Be a Force Multiplier: Serve as the subject matter expert on strategic sourcing by coaching recruiters and hiring managers on market insights, sourcing strategy, talent availability, competitive intelligence, candidate engagement best practices, and emerging recruiting technologies.
• Partner Across COEs: Collaborate cross-functionally with Talent Intelligence, Talent Acquisition Operations and Employer Brand teams to optimize recruiting strategies, outbound messaging, candidate experience, and operational excellence.

Skills

Executive sourcing

Market mapping

Boolean search

AI-powered sourcing

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Pitchbook

Crunchbase

Claude Code

OpenAI Codex

GitHub Copilot

ChatGPT

Job description

• Job Type (exemption status): Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
• Salary Range: 134,800.00-179,700.00
• Business Function: Talent Acquisition

Company Description

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy.

As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in.

We combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide.

This isn’t theoretical work. It’s real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.

We’re looking for people who want to build, solve, and operate at that level.

Join us and let’s shape the future of data.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Executive Sourcer who lives and breathes talent discovery - someone who can take complex and nuanced search requirements and translate it into a precision sourcing strategy. You’ll be the go-to expert for executive talent market mapping, proactive candidate generation, and pipeline cultivation across multiple functions.

This is a strategic role where you will build market intelligence, relationships, and repeatable systems that fuel the executive recruiting practice and impact WD’s strategic direction. As a Senior Executive Sourcer, you'll serve as a strategic partner to the Director of Executive Recruiting, the VP of Global Talent and hiring leaders across WD. You will be expected to leverage modern AI tools and scalable sourcing practices to help us identify and hire world-class executive talent. You will be at the table, operating with a leader mindset that helps drive decision-making.

The activities below highlight some key deliverables but do not limit what one could build. This is a greenfield opportunity for someone who possesses an owner/builder mentality.

Lead Top of Funnel Strategy: Partner closely with recruiters and hiring leaders to define target profiles and build deep, data-informed sourcing strategies across multiple functions.

Deliver Market Mapping: Develop comprehensive talent landscapes across the AI Infrastructure ecosystem by company, skillset, geography, and organizational structure; identify hidden talent pools, competitor insights, and emerging talent trends to inform recruiting strategy and workforce planning.

Attract & Engage: Use advanced Boolean search techniques, sourcing platforms, and creative sourcing channels (The Org, Pitchbook, Crunchbase, conferences and more) to identify, engage, and attract exceptional executive technical talent.

Create a Talent Pool Strategy: Cultivate long-term relationships with passive and highly specialized executive talent to enable speed of hire and succession plan execution.

Leverage AI to Efficiently Scale: Design, build, and continuously improve AI-powered sourcing workflows, research agents, and practical automations that increase recruiting productivity, accelerate candidate discovery, enhance market intelligence, and improve operational efficiency.

Be a Force Multiplier: Serve as the subject matter expert on strategic sourcing by coaching recruiters and hiring managers on market insights, sourcing strategy, talent availability, competitive intelligence, candidate engagement best practices, and emerging recruiting technologies.

Partner Across COEs: Collaborate cross-functionally with Talent Intelligence, Talent Acquisition Operations and Employer Brand teams to optimize recruiting strategies, outbound messaging, candidate experience, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

7+ years of sourcing experience (or recruiting and sourcing experience) for technology companies with a focus on leadership, executive talent and/or executive technologists.

Proven track record in developing market mapping, competitive intelligence, and executive candidate generation (Sr. Director to C Suite)

Deep expertise in advanced Boolean search and use of unique tools & methods to access executive talent (e.g., conference speakers, Pitchbook & Crunchbase)

Demonstrated ability to influence executives with data to allow informed decision-making

Hands‑on experience building or leveraging AI-powered sourcing workflows, agentic AI tools, workflow automations, or practical AI solutions that improve recruiting or business processes.

Direct experience using AI development environments or coding assistants (such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, or similar tools) to create repeatable sourcing workflows, structured research outputs, market intelligence, process automation, or operational documentation.

Experience applying methods or building tools to manage & cultivate pools of talent

Excellent communication and storytelling skills with the ability to engage executive candidates and influence stakeholders.

Fluent in developing slide presentations & documents to succinctly inform executive hiring managers & partners

Strong judgment, curiosity, and a continuous improvement mindset with the ability to evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies to improve recruiting outcomes.

Preferred Experience

A combination of internal executive search and executive search firm experience

Experience recruiting or sourcing for executives in AI Infrastructure or