Technical Sourcer (Temporary)

About the Company

Discord is a communication platform used by over 200 million people monthly, primarily for gaming purposes. The company focuses on enhancing the gaming experience by facilitating conversations and interactions among users before, during, and after gameplay.

Responsibilities

• Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders to understand role requirements and ideal candidate profiles.
• Conduct comprehensive total addressable market research to size talent pools and inform hiring timelines.
• Develop detailed job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations and creating target account lists.
• Build and execute customized sourcing strategies for each requisition using various sourcing techniques.
• Craft personalized outreach campaigns that engage passive candidates.
• Own candidate experience from initial outreach through recruiter handoff.
• Represent Discord's engineering brand at technical conferences and industry events.
• Maintain rigorous pipeline health metrics and optimize sourcing approaches using data.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technical sourcing or recruitment, preferably in a high-growth tech company environment.
• Demonstrated success hiring senior, staff, and principal-level engineers, and engineering managers in competitive talent markets.
• Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand complex engineering roles and evaluate technical qualifications.
• Expert-level proficiency with boolean search techniques and advanced sourcing methods.
• Proficiency with modern sourcing tools and platforms, including SeekOut Recruit, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, and GitHub.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong pipeline management capabilities.

Skills & Tools

Additional Information

This position is temporary, US-based, and can be remote. Candidates in the Bay Area have the option to work from the San Francisco office.