Technical Sourcer: Build High-Impact Engineering Pipelines

Plaid; Washington; On-site; USD 127,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Commission

Medical benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Plaid is seeking a Technical Sourcer to build pipelines for our Engineering and Data Science teams. You will own the top of the funnel across one or multiple tech pipelines, from market research to qualified candidates entering the interview process.

You will handle a high req load across multiple teams, turning learnings into intelligence about where talent sits and what a role needs to look like to be winnable, while ensuring inclusive outreach that builds diverse pipelines.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical sourcing experience, including in-house sourcing at a high-growth technology company.
• Demonstrated success in high-volume, high-urgency environments with multiple technical searches.
• Genuine fluency in technical skill sets; can read a job spec, a GitHub profile, or a research paper and make a defensible call on relevance.
• Strong written and verbal communication; outreach is short, specific, and human; senior engineers reply to it.

Responsibilities

• Own top-of-funnel strategy and execution for technical reqs across Software Engineering or Data Science.
• Run talent research including market maps, org mapping, open-source and technical community research, and boolean/x-ray searches.
• Write outreach that gets answered and tailor messaging to what someone has built.
• Operate at volume with disciplined follow-up cadences and clean data.
• Turn research into intelligence and present market maps, talent density views, and competitive 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 when roles aren’t easily findable.

Skills

Technical sourcing

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub search

Boolean / X-ray

CRM / ATS

High-volume sourcing

Communication

Data-driven

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub

Job description

Plaid is seeking a Technical Sourcer to build pipelines for our Engineering and Data Science teams. You will own the top of the funnel across one or multiple tech pipelines, from market research to qualified candidates entering the interview process.

You will handle a high req load across multiple teams, turning learnings into intelligence about where talent sits and what a role needs to look like to be winnable, while ensuring inclusive outreach that builds diverse pipelines.