Senior Technical Sourcer

About the Role

Discord's Talent team is seeking a strategic Technical Sourcer to support our most complex engineering roles by activating passive candidates. In this role, you'll partner directly with engineering leadership to conduct market intelligence, size talent pools, and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles.

You'll be responsible for translating technical requirements into targeted sourcing approaches, building robust candidate pipelines through deep market analysis and personalized outreach, and serving as a trusted advisor on talent availability and competitive dynamics. Success in this role requires a consultative mindset, strong analytical capabilities, and proven expertise in activating passive talent in highly constrained technical markets.

What you will be doing

• Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders to deeply understand role requirements, technical stack nuances, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles, translating technical requirements into effective sourcing criteria.
• Conduct comprehensive total addressable market (TAM) research to size talent pools, identify hiring feasibility, and inform realistic hiring timelines for niche technical roles.
• Develop detailed job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations, identifying companies with relevant technical stacks, and creating target account lists that align with Discord's technical architecture and culture.
• Build and execute customized sourcing strategies for each requisition, leveraging boolean search, x-ray techniques, github sourcing, and competitive intelligence to uncover and activate passive talent in highly specialized areas.
• Identify and engage talent in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize our teams.
• Craft highly personalized, compelling outreach campaigns that articulate Discord's unique technical challenges and demonstrate genuine understanding of candidates' work, engaging even the most passive senior, staff-level engineers, and engineering leaders.
• Own candidate experience from initial outreach through recruiter handoff, maintaining consistent communication, setting clear expectations, and ensuring smooth transitions that reflect Discord's candidate-first approach.
• Represent Discord's engineering brand at technical conferences, meetups, and industry events, building long-term relationships and nurturing talent communities for sustained pipeline development.
• Practice strong data hygiene across our recruiting systems and maintain rigorous pipeline health metrics including interested response rates, activation rate, next step pass-through rate, and source effectiveness, using data to continuously optimize sourcing approaches and demonstrate ROI.

What you should have

• 5+ years of experience in technical sourcing or recruitment, preferably in a high-growth tech company environment, 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 with the ability to understand complex engineering concepts, programming languages, and system architectures.