Technical Sourcer: Build Diverse Tech Pipelines

Plaid; California (MO); On-site; USD 127,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid is hiring a Technical Sourcer to build top-of-funnel pipelines for our Engineering and Data Science teams. You will own the search from market research to qualified candidates entering interviews, maintaining high-quality data and partnerships with recruiters.

You will operate across multiple teams, deliver thoughtful outreach, and turn learnings into actionable intelligence to shape roles and strategy in a fast-growing fintech environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical sourcing experience, including in-house sourcing at a high-growth technology company.
• Strong sourcing research technique and tooling: boolean and x-ray search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub and technical communities, publications and conference sources, and CRM or ATS sourcing workflows.
• Demonstrated success in high-volume, high-urgency environments, carrying multiple technical searches at once without dropping the details.
• Genuine fluency in technical skill sets. You can read a job spec, a GitHub profile, or a research paper and make a defensible call on relevance.
• Strong written and verbal communication. Your outreach is short, specific, and human, and senior engineers reply to it.
• Data discipline. You use funnel metrics to decide where to spend effort, and you can explain your pipeline with numbers rather than anecdotes.
• Meticulous attention to detail and personal ownership of your data hygiene. If your pipeline data is wrong, no one downstream can plan.
• A candidate-first approach built on empathy, transparency, and consistent follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Own top-of-funnel strategy and execution for technical reqs across Software Engineering or Data Science.
• Run talent research on market maps, org mapping, open-source and technical community research, and advanced boolean and x-ray search.
• Write outreach that gets answered, personalizing based on what someone has built and testing messaging for response rate.
• Operate at volume with disciplined follow-up cadences, ATS hygiene, and clean data.
• Turn research into intelligence with market maps and competitive hiring insights to shape role scope and search strategy.
• Build diverse pipelines by design through broad research and inclusive outreach.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring managers on calibration to make roles more findable.
• Track funnel metrics and report on response rate, screen pass rate, and conversion; share insights with the team.

Skills

Technical sourcing

Boolean & x-ray search

High-volume recruiting

Communication

Data-driven

Attention to detail

Empathy in recruiting

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub

CRM/ATS

Job description

Plaid is hiring a Technical Sourcer to build top-of-funnel pipelines for our Engineering and Data Science teams. You will own the search from market research to qualified candidates entering interviews, maintaining high-quality data and partnerships with recruiters.

You will operate across multiple teams, deliver thoughtful outreach, and turn learnings into actionable intelligence to shape roles and strategy in a fast-growing fintech environment.