Hyphenate
Technical Sourcer
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 3–7 years of technical sourcing or recruiting experience.
About the job
Build and run talent-sourcing pipelines, primarily for software engineers, from candidate research and outreach through initial conversations and handoff to the hiring team.
What you'll do
- Partner with founders and hiring managers to define candidate profiles and build targeted pipelines; source and engage candidates across channels.
- Write personalized outreach, lead initial candidate conversations, and maintain organized candidate records in a talent CRM.
- Track sourcing results and improve campaigns and talent sources based on pipeline data and hiring-team feedback.
What they ask for
- Hands-on technical sourcing or recruiting experience, including sourcing for early-stage startups.
- Experience sourcing software engineers across levels, including senior and staff.
- Experience building outbound campaigns, candidate pipelines, and talent CRM workflows.
- Experience translating hiring needs into focused searches with founders or engineering leaders; excellent written and verbal communication.
Nice to have
- Founding recruiter or early recruiting hire at a Series A or Series B startup; experience growing an engineering team at a company with roughly 20–150 employees.
- Experience sourcing product roles or reaching candidates through creative channels, events, or cold calling.
Tools
LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, HireVue, SeekOut, Juicebox, Metaview
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