Discord
Gaming
SeniorTechnicalSourcer
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“Senior Technical Sourcer at Discord. Skills: Technical Sourcing, Passive Candidate Activation, Market Mapping, Talent Pool Analysis. Partner with hiring managers and technical leaders. Understand role requirements and technical stack”
What You'll Achieve.
Activate passive candidates; Execute sophisticated sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles; Build robust candidate pipelines; Serve as a trusted advisor; Scale and optimize our teams; Engage even the most passive senior, staff-level engineers, and engineering leaders; Ensure smooth transitions; Build long-term relationships; Nurture talent communities for sustained pipeline development; Demonstrate ROI
Industry & Context.
Analytical capabilities; Translate technical requirements into targeted sourcing approaches; Build robust candidate pipelines through deep market analysis; Serve as a trusted advisor on talent availability and competitive dynamics; Assess hiring feasibility; Identify capability gaps; Provide data-backed insights on competitive talent dynamics; Use data to continuously optimize sourcing approaches
US-based only, Temporary position
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in technical sourcing or recruitment, Demonstrated success hiring senior, staff, and principal-level engineers, and engineering managers in competitive, constrained talent markets, Technical aptitude with the ability to understand complex engineering roles, evaluate technical qualifications, and effectively translate technical requirements into sourcing signals and candidate evaluation criteria, Expert-level proficiency with boolean search techniques and advanced sourcing methods, Proficiency with modern sourcing tools and platforms, Expertise in market mapping and talent pool analysis, Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, Pipeline management capabilities, Proven track record of successfully sourcing candidates in areas such as developers, full-stack engineers, and feature development, Data-driven mindset
Nice to Have
preferably in a high-growth tech company environment, on job profiles such as distributed systems and product engineering, open-mindedness to experimenting with AI tooling
What You'll Do.
Partner with hiring managers and technical leaders
Understand role requirements and technical stack
Translate technical requirements into sourcing criteria
Conduct total addressable market research
Size talent pools and inform hiring timelines
Develop job mapping strategies
Create target account lists
Build and execute customized sourcing strategies
Identify and engage talent
Craft personalized outreach campaigns
Own candidate experience
Represent Discord's engineering brand
Practice data hygiene
Maintain pipeline health metrics
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders; Partner with our recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize our teams; Build trust and influence technical hiring managers, interview teams, and senior leadership
Communication Scope
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; Ability to build trust and influence; Provide structured insights; Consultative partnership; Consistent communication; Clear expectation setting
Process & Methodology
Rigorous prioritization and balancing of multiple requisitions
Full Job Description
Discord is used by over 200 million people every month for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does on our platform: play video games. Over 90% of our users play games, spending a combined 1.5 billion hours playing thousands of unique titles on Discord each month. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games. This position is temporary and US-based only. Discord's Talent team is seeking a strategic Technical Sourcer to support our most complex engineering roles by activating passive candidates. In this role, you'll partner directly with engineering leadership to conduct market intelligence, size talent pools, and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles. You'll be responsible for translating technical requirements into targeted sourcing approaches, building robust candidate pipelines through deep market analysis and personalized outreach, and serving as a trusted advisor on talent availability and competitive dynamics. Success in this role requires a consultative mindset, strong analytical capabilities, and proven expertise in activating passive talent in highly constrained technical markets. What you will be doing: Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders to deeply understand role requirements, technical stack nuances, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles, translating technical requirements into effective sourcing criteria. Conduct comprehensive total addressable market (TAM) research to size talent pools, identify hiring feasibility, and inform realistic hiring timelines for niche technical roles. Develop detailed job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations, identifying companies with relevant technical stacks, and creating target account lists that align with Discord's technical architecture and culture Build and e
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