Technical Sourcer: Build High-Impact Pipelines (Equity)

Plaid Inc; Oregon; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid is seeking a Technical Sourcer to build and own the top of the funnel for our Engineering and Data Science teams. You will conduct market research, map talent landscapes, and craft personalized outreach to bring qualified candidates into the interview process.

You will collaborate closely with recruiters and hiring managers, maintain rigorous data hygiene, and help shape role scope and search strategy while representing Plaid authentically to candidates.

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. Build the pipeline, engage and qualify the candidate, and hand off a qualified, well-briefed person to the recruiter.
• Run talent research. Market maps, org mapping, open-source and technical community research, and advanced boolean and x-ray search across sources most people do not think to check.
• Write outreach that gets answered. Personalize based on what someone has actually built, test messaging, and own response rate as a measurable metric.
• Operate at volume without losing precision. Run multiple searches at once with disciplined follow-up cadences, ATS hygiene, and clean data.
• Turn research into intelligence. Build maps and insights, then bring them to recruiters and hiring managers to shape scope and strategy.
• Build diverse pipelines by design through broad research and inclusive outreach.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring managers on calibration. Propose what would make a role more findable and winnable.
• Track and report funnel metrics; share what they indicate for next steps.
• Represent Plaid authentically; be the first impression candidates form of us.

Skills

Technical sourcing

LinkedIn Recruiter

GitHub

CRM/ATS

High-volume recruiting

Communication

Data-driven

Empathy

Tools

Boolean search

X-ray search

GitHub

CRM/ATS

Job description

Plaid is seeking a Technical Sourcer to build and own the top of the funnel for our Engineering and Data Science teams. You will conduct market research, map talent landscapes, and craft personalized outreach to bring qualified candidates into the interview process.

You will collaborate closely with recruiters and hiring managers, maintain rigorous data hygiene, and help shape role scope and search strategy while representing Plaid authentically to candidates.