Senior Staff Talent Sourcer - G&A

Shield AI; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Staff Talent Sourcer who can translate highly specialized hiring needs into precision sourcing strategies. You will own talent intelligence, market mapping, proactive candidate generation, and pipeline cultivation across Finance, Legal, People, Operations, Strategy, IT, and other corporate functions.

This role emphasizes building intelligence, relationships, and scalable sourcing processes to support the engineering hiring engine, acting as a strategic partner to

Qualifications

• Experience in talent intelligence and market mapping.
• Proven track record in proactive candidate generation and pipeline cultivation.
• Ability to partner with recruiters and hiring leaders across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

• Develop precision sourcing strategies for complex corporate roles.
• Build intelligence artifacts and repeatable sourcing processes.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring leaders to shape talent pipelines.

Skills

Talent sourcing

Market mapping

Stakeholder management

AI-assisted sourcing

Job description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI's technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

We're looking for a Senior Staff Talent Sourcer who lives and breathes talent discovery - someone who can take a complex, highly specialized corporate hiring need and translate it into a precision sourcing strategy. You'll be the go-to expert for talent intelligence, market mapping, proactive candidate generation, and pipeline cultivation across our Finance, Legal, People, Operations, Strategy, IT, and other corporate functions.

This isn't just a "find resumes" role - it's about building intelligence, relationships, and repeatable systems that fuel our engineering hiring engine. As a Senior Staff Talent Sourcer, you'll serve as a strategic partner to recruiters and hiring leaders while leveraging modern AI tools, market intelligence, and scalable sourcing practices to help us identify and hire world-class engineering talent.