Senior Technical Sourcer: Build the Talent Flywheel

Latent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Latent is assembling a high-caliber technical team in a competitive market. This role owns the top of the funnel—finding, engaging, and building relationships with exceptional engineers before they're actively looking.

We value taste, curiosity, and persistence. You will partner with recruiters and founders to define what qualifies as great, experiment with messaging, and track funnel metrics to improve replies and time to first convo.

Qualifications

• 1–4+ years of technical sourcing experience (startup experience a plus).
• Enjoy solving the puzzle of finding hard-to-find candidates.
• Care about quality over volume and avoid spammy outreach.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building from scratch.
• Operate with urgency and take ownership.
• Bias to action.

Responsibilities

• Own outbound sourcing for technical roles (primarily software engineers).
• Identify high-signal candidates via LinkedIn, GitHub, referrals, and communities.
• Write thoughtful, personalized outreach that actually gets replies.
• Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to define "great".
• Experiment with sourcing strategies, messaging, and channels.
• Track and improve funnel metrics (reply rate, pass-through, time to first convo).
• Build long-term candidate relationships, even when timing isn't right.

Skills

Technical sourcing

Startup experience

Quality outreach

Ownership

Job description

Latent is assembling a high-caliber technical team in a competitive market. This role owns the top of the funnel—finding, engaging, and building relationships with exceptional engineers before they're actively looking.

We value taste, curiosity, and persistence. You will partner with recruiters and founders to define what qualifies as great, experiment with messaging, and track funnel metrics to improve replies and time to first convo.