[Hiring] Technical Sourcer @Job Mobz

Role Description

Our client is a consumer technology platform used daily by millions of people, and it is seeking a Technical Sourcer to support its most complex engineering searches by activating passive candidates. This is a temporary, U.S.-based contract position.

• Partner with hiring managers and technical leaders to understand role requirements, technical stack details, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles, and convert them into sourcing criteria.
• Conduct total addressable market research to size talent pools, assess hiring feasibility, and set realistic timelines for niche technical roles.
• Build job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations, identifying companies with relevant technical stacks, and creating target account lists aligned to the client’s technical architecture and culture.
• Build and run a customized sourcing strategy for each requisition using boolean search, x-ray techniques, GitHub sourcing, and competitive intelligence to find and activate passive talent in specialized areas.
• Identify and engage talent in their fields, and work with recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize teams.
• Write personalized outreach that explains the client’s technical challenges and shows real understanding of each candidate’s work, including outreach to passive senior and staff-level engineers and engineering leaders.
• Own the candidate experience from first outreach through recruiter handoff, with consistent communication, clear expectations, and smooth transitions.
• Represent the client at company events, technical conferences, meetups, and industry events, and build long-term relationships and talent communities for sustained pipeline development.
• Keep strong data hygiene across recruiting systems and track pipeline health metrics, including interested response rate, activation rate, next step pass-through rate, and source effectiveness, and use that data to refine sourcing approaches and demonstrate ROI.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical sourcing or recruiting experience, preferably in a high-growth tech company, on job profiles such as distributed systems and product engineering.
• Demonstrated success hiring senior, staff, and principal-level engineers and engineering managers in competitive, constrained talent markets.
• Strong technical aptitude: able to understand complex engineering roles, evaluate technical qualifications, and translate requirements into sourcing signals and candidate evaluation criteria.
• Expert-level boolean search and advanced sourcing methods, including x-ray searches, GitHub and repository mining, conference and publication tracking, and creative talent identification beyond traditional platforms.
• Proficiency with SeekOut, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse), plus hands-on experimentation with AI tooling.
• Expertise in market mapping and talent pool analysis, including sizing addressable markets, assessing hiring feasibility, identifying capability gaps, and giving data-backed insight on competitive talent dynamics.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with a record of building trust and influence with technical hiring managers, interview teams, and senior leadership through structured insights.
• Strong pipeline management: able to prioritize and balance multiple requisitions at different stages in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven record sourcing developers, full-stack engineers, and feature development talent.
• Data-driven approach to tracking, analyzing, and reporting on key sourcing metrics (interested response rate, activation rate, conversion ratios, source effectiveness) and turning findings into strategy adjustments.

Requirements

• This is a temporary, full-time contract position with an expected duration of six months.
• The pay rate is $75 per hour.
• The client prefers a candidate based in the San Francisco Bay Area and will consider remote candidates within the U.S. for the right fit.
• Candidates must be located in the United States.

Benefits

• Compensation: USD 75 - USD 75 - hourly