[Hiring] Executive Talent Sourcer @MongoDB

Role Description

This is a high-impact opportunity to help build the foundation of MongoDB’s internal Executive Recruiting function during a critical phase of company growth and transformation. Reporting directly to the Director of Executive Recruiting, this role will serve as the strategic engine behind executive talent identification, market intelligence, and proactive leadership pipeline development across the business.

The Executive Sourcer will play a central role in shaping how MongoDB identifies and engages exceptional VP-level and above talent globally. This role requires a highly consultative sourcing professional who operates beyond traditional research — someone who can develop sophisticated talent landscapes, engage and qualify passive executive talent, and translate external market insights into strategic hiring advantage.

We're looking to speak with candidates based on the east coast of the United States, ideally near one of our hub locations or remote.

Key Responsibilities and Focus Areas

• Strategic Executive Talent Identification & Pipeline Development
  • Lead proactive sourcing strategy for VP-level and above searches across technical, go-to-market, product, G&A, and operational leadership functions.
  • Build and maintain high-quality pipelines of passive executive talent for active and future leadership needs across the company.
  • Develop targeted talent attraction strategies tailored to each executive search, using a broad set of channels beyond standard database and platform research.
  • Continuously cultivate long-term executive relationships to strengthen future succession and leadership planning efforts.
• Executive Search Research, Engagement & Qualification
  • Identify, engage, and qualify passive executive talent through thoughtful outreach, direct market engagement, referrals, and network development.
  • Conduct initial executive-level conversations to assess alignment against role requirements, leadership profile, and career trajectory.
  • Partner closely with hiring managers and recruiting partners to calibrate candidate profiles and refine search strategy in real time.
  • Maintain rigorous standards for candidate documentation, market tracking, and search progress reporting.
• Talent Intelligence & Market Mapping
  • Build comprehensive market maps for critical leadership roles, identifying target companies, organizational structures, reporting relationships, and relevant executive talent pools.
  • Deliver clear market insights on talent availability, competitor leadership structures, diversity representation, and talent movement trends.
  • Support executive search strategy through data-informed recommendations that improve search precision and speed.
  • Contribute to the development of repeatable executive talent intelligence frameworks that can scale across future searches.
  • Experiment with emerging AI-enabled sourcing techniques to expand research depth, accelerate talent discovery, and improve the quality of executive talent insights.
  • Continuously evaluate how evolving technologies can improve the speed, precision, and scalability of executive search work without compromising candidate quality or judgment.
• Succession Planning & Future-State Leadership Projects
  • Support batched strategic talent mapping projects focused on future leadership priorities and succession scenarios.
  • Help establish external benchmarks for key executive roles across critical business functions.
  • Partner on proactive leadership landscape work that informs long-term organizational planning.
• Function Building & Search Excellence
  • Help define best practices for executive sourcing, talent engagement, and candidate presentation within MongoDB’s emerging internal executive recruiting model.
  • Contribute to the development of high-quality search documentation, talent presentation materials, and executive search operating discipline.
  • Serve as a thought partner in evolving sourcing methodologies, tools, and intelligence capabilities over time.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of sourcing experience, with significant experience supporting executive searches at VP level and above.
• Demonstrated success identifying, engaging, and qualifying passive executive talent across multiple business functions.
• Strong executive research capability paired with the ability to independently initiate and sustain high-quality candidate conversations.
• Experience building sophisticated market maps and translating talent intelligence into actionable search strategy.
• Functional breadth preferred, with ability to work horizontally across technical and non-technical leadership searches.
• Excellent judgment, discretion, and communication skills when interacting with senior executive talent.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple strategic workstreams simultaneously.
• Experience operating in high-growth technology, SaaS, or similarly dynamic environments strongly preferred.

What Success Looks Like

• Executive searches begin with strong, well-calibrated external talent landscapes rather than reactive sourcing.
• Passive executive talent pipelines are continuously developing ahead of formal search demand.
• Hiring leaders gain deeper insight into external talent markets through high-quality search intelligence.
• MongoDB strengthens its long-term ability to attract and assess exceptional leadership talent globally.

Benefits

• Equity participation in the employee stock purchase program.
• Flexible paid time off.
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave.
• Fertility and adoption assistance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Mental health counseling.
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage.
• Health benefits offerings.

Company Description

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone.