Technical Sourcer - Global E-Commerce - San Jose (Third-Party Associate)

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 41,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a proactive Global E-Commerce (GEC) US Talent Acquisition sourcer. This outbound-first role owns the top of the funnel for backend engineering, infra, PM, and solution architecture—working directly with hiring managers.

It emphasizes independent sourcing, market reality, and reusable assets to drive hires. The position is a 6-month temporary assignment managed by a third-party agency, with compensation range $30–$50 per hour in the selected city.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a dedicated sourcing role with proactive sourcing as a primary responsibility.
• Proven success sourcing candidates for technical roles and able to discuss positions supported, strategies used, challenges overcome, and measurable results.
• Experience using AI-assisted sourcing platforms or similar recruiting technology, with judgment on when to rely on automation vs. manual sourcing.
• Strong technical aptitude to evaluate resumes and understand core engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Own top-of-funnel outcomes: response rate, resume evaluation pass rate, and pipeline volume; diagnose them independently.
• Develop sourcing strategy for niche technical roles (backend, infra, PM, solution architect).
• Partner with hiring managers, calibrate, push back on unrealistic profiles, bring market reality to the business.
• Use your own methods and adapt outreach; create reusable assets (market maps, search libraries, trackers, SOPs).
• Maintain and grow pipelines with proactive, outbound-focused sourcing.

Skills

Sourcing experience

Technical sourcing

AI sourcing tools

Technical evaluation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

Responsibilities

About the Team

The Global E-Commerce (GEC) US Talent Acquisition hires the engineering, product, and technical leadership talent that builds TikTok's US e-commerce business. We are a small team with direct exposure to the business leaders we hire for. Our sourcers do not sit behind recruiters processing a queue. They own the top of the funnel, carry their own reqs, and talk to hiring managers directly.

This is an outbound-first environment. The roles we fill — backend engineering, infrastructure, product management, solution architecture — do not fill themselves through inbound applications. If you are looking for a seat where inbound flow does most of the work, this is not it.

What You Will Own

• Top of funnel outcomes. Response rate, resume evaluation pass rate, and pipeline volume are yours. You will be measured on them and you will be expected to diagnose them without being asked.
• Sourcing strategy for niche technical roles. Backend, infra, PM, solution architect. Roles where the qualified population is small and every one of them already has a job.
• Direct partnership with hiring managers. You will sit in calibration, push back on unrealistic profiles, and bring market reality to the business.
• Your own methods. When an approach stops working, you change it. You are not waiting for a recruiter to tell you the outreach is not landing.
• Reusable assets. Market maps, search string libraries, trackers, SOPs. Work that outlasts the req.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years in a dedicated sourcing role, with ownership of proactive sourcing as a primary responsibility.
• Proven success sourcing candidates for technical roles, with the ability to discuss the positions you’ve supported, sourcing strategies you’ve used, hiring challenges you’ve overcome, and measurable results you’ve achieved.
• Experience using AI-assisted sourcing platforms or similar recruiting technology, along with the judgment to determine when to rely on automation and when manual sourcing and evaluation are needed.
• Strong technical aptitude, with the ability to evaluate technical resumes, understand core engineering disciplines, and distinguish candidates with relevant hands‑on experience from resumes that rely primarily on keyword matching.

Preferred Qualifications

• A track record in an environment where outbound sourcing, not inbound applicant flow, produced the majority of hires.
• Experience using AI to build something that improved their own funnel — a tracker, a dashboard, an outreach workflow, a market map — and can point to what changed as a result.
• Comfortable running several unrelated niche reqs at once without letting quality slip on any of them.
• Composure in a fast, high-change environment. Reschedules, no-shows, shifting priorities, and occasional evening work across time zones are part of the job, not an exception to it.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Important Note: Please be advised that this job posting is on behalf of a third-party agency. This is a 6-month temporary assignment managed by a third-party agency, who will be your employer. While you may be assigned to work at TikTok, you will not be a TikTok employee. All contractual terms, including payroll and benefits, will be handled by a third-party agency. By applying, you agree that the information provided in your application may be processed and retained by TikTok for recruitment purposes and shared with a third-party agency in accordance with TikTok's Applicant Privacy Notice https://lifeattiktok.com/legal/privacy

This is a temporary position. You will not be an employee of TikTok. You will be an employee of a third-party agency. As of the date of this posting, a good faith estimate of the hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $30 - $50.

Placement in the range depends on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience and location. Your benefits, if any, will be provided by your contracting vendor/agency.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
• Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
• Exercising sound judgment.

Job Information

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an “Always Day 1” mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok Accommodation

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request