Talent Researcher

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Talent Researcher to help us understand the talent market, identify great people early, and build stronger pipelines across the business.

This is more than a reactive sourcing role. You’ll focus on talent mapping, market research, proactive pipeline building, and surfacing candidates who may not be actively looking. Your work will help our recruiting team and hiring leaders make better, faster decisions about where to find talent and how to engage them.

You’ll operate at the intersection of research, analysis, and recruiting execution. If you enjoy turning ambiguity into structured insights, finding talent others miss, and building pipelines before they’re needed, this could be a great fit.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain talent maps across priority areas.
  • Research companies, teams, and talent pools to identify strong potential candidates across technical, business, and leadership roles.
• Turn hiring needs into focused research strategies.
  • Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to understand what great looks like, define target profiles, and build actionable candidate pipelines.
• Deliver market intelligence that shapes our approach.
  • Surface insights on talent availability, geographic markets, compensation, competitive companies, emerging talent pools, and other trends that help inform hiring strategy.
• Build proactive pipelines.
  • Develop and maintain talent communities and evergreen pipelines for areas where we know we’ll continue to hire, allowing us to move quickly when new roles open.
• Find talent others miss.
  • Go beyond traditional searches and obvious profiles to uncover high-potential candidates, adjacent talent pools, and new companies or markets we should be exploring.
• Improve how we research and source.
  • Help refine our workflows, tools, documentation, and data so our research function becomes more scalable and effective over time.
• Move fast while maintaining quality.
  • Quickly turn new hiring priorities into structured research, target lists, market insights, and candidate pipelines that help accelerate searches.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in talent research, executive search, sourcing, recruiting, or a similar role with a strong research component.
• Experience building talent maps, target company lists, candidate pipelines, or market research across complex or competitive talent markets.
• Strong sourcing and research skills, including experience with tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Talent Insights, ATS platforms, spreadsheets, and other research tools.
• An analytical mindset. You don't just collect names — you look for patterns, understand markets, and turn information into actionable insights.
• Strong written communication and the ability to present research in a clear, structured, and useful way.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and adapting quickly as hiring priorities change.
• A proactive mindset and an interest in building pipelines before the need becomes urgent.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting a mix of technical, GTM, G&A, or leadership searches.
• Experience working in a high-growth technology company.
• Experience building proactive talent communities or evergreen pipelines.
• Familiarity with modern sourcing, research, and recruiting technology.