Senior Technical Talent Scout

BITKRAFT Ventures; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Discord is seeking a strategic Technical Sourcer to support our most complex engineering roles by activating passive candidates. You will partner with engineering leadership to size talent pools and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles.

This US-based, temporary full-time role involves market mapping, personalized outreach, and building long-term talent communities while maintaining rigorous pipeline health and data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical sourcing or recruitment.
• Experience hiring senior to principal engineers in competitive markets.
• Strong technical aptitude for engineering roles.
• Expert-level boolean search and advanced sourcing methods.
• Data-driven with metrics tracking and insights.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers and technical leaders to define role requirements.
• Conduct TAM research to size talent pools and inform hiring timelines.
• Develop job mapping strategies by analyzing competitors and target lists.
• Build and execute customized sourcing strategies using boolean search, x-ray, GitHub sourcing.
• Identify and engage senior engineers and managers to scale teams.
• Craft personalized outreach campaigns highlighting Discord's challenges.
• Own candidate experience from outreach to handoff and maintain pipeline health.
• Represent Discord at events to build long-term talent communities.

Skills

Technical sourcing

Boolean search

Market mapping

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

SeekOut

Gem

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub

Greenhouse

Job description

Discord is seeking a strategic Technical Sourcer to support our most complex engineering roles by activating passive candidates. You will partner with engineering leadership to size talent pools and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles.

This US-based, temporary full-time role involves market mapping, personalized outreach, and building long-term talent communities while maintaining rigorous pipeline health and data-driven insights.