Engineering Recruitment - Technical Sourcer

Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.
Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025—less than six months after our Series A—led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.
The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI‑moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.
We’re looking for a strategic, curious, and highly resourceful Technical Sourcer to help us identify and engage exceptional technical talent. You’ll partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and technical leaders to develop targeted sourcing strategies for priority roles.
Responsibilities Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to deeply understand role requirements, technical stacks, business priorities, and ideal candidate profiles.

Build targeted talent maps and pipelines by function, skill set, geography, company background, and domain expertise.

Identify and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, technical communities, open-source projects, industry events, referrals, alumni networks, and other creative sourcing channels.

Use Boolean search, X-ray search, talent intelligence tools, and market research to uncover qualified candidates for difficult and niche technical searches.

Write thoughtful, personalized outreach that communicates the company’s mission, engineering challenges, technical environment, and career opportunity.

Present well-calibrated candidates to hiring teams, including clear sourcing context and relevant technical background.

Maintain accurate, timely candidate activity and pipeline data within Ashby.

Track sourcing funnel performance, outreach response rates, candidate quality, diversity representation, and pipeline health; Share market intelligence with recruiting and engineering leadership, including talent availability, competitor activity, skill‑set trends, location constraints, and candidate feedback.

Develop and maintain long-term candidate relationships and talent communities for future hiring needs.

Support inclusive sourcing practices by broadening search strategies, diversifying talent channels, and helping reduce bias in talent identification.

Demonstrated experience sourcing for technical roles, such as backend, frontend, full-stack, platform, mobile, data, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, DevOps/SRE, security, or engineering leadership.

Ability to evaluate technical profiles based on programming languages, frameworks, architecture, infrastructure, scale, product domain, and depth of ownership—not solely titles or employer names.

Strong familiarity with technical sourcing channels, including LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Stack Overflow or developer communities, open-source ecosystems, conference communities, and referral networks.

Expertise in Boolean and X-ray search, candidate research, talent mapping, and building pipelines for difficult-to-fill roles.

Strong written communication skills and the ability to craft authentic, customized outreach that resonates with technical audiences.

Experience using applicant tracking systems, recruiting CRMs, and sourcing tools; familiarity with Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Gem, SeekOut, hireEZ, LinkedIn Recruiter, or similar platforms is a plus.

Strong partnership and consultative skills, including the ability to influence hiring teams using market data and sourcing insights.

A data-informed, detail-oriented approach to measuring sourcing effectiveness and improving outcomes.

Commitment to inclusive hiring practices and expanding access to technical opportunities.

Familiarity with modern technical stacks and concepts, such as Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, distributed systems, data platforms, LLMs, MLOps, observability, or application security.

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