Technical Sourcer

Plaid’s EPD Recruiting team builds the teams that build Plaid. We partner with leaders across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Security to deliver candidate-first recruiting experiences.

The Technical Sourcer will build pipelines for Plaid’s core Engineering and Data Science population, owning the top of the funnel across one or multiple technical pipelines, from market research and pipeline strategy through qualified candidates entering the interview process.

Responsibilities:

• Own top-of-funnel strategy and execution for technical reqs across Software Engineering or Data Science. Build the pipeline, engage and qualify candidates, and hand off qualified, well-briefed people to recruiters.
• Run talent research, including market maps, org mapping, open-source and technical community research, and advanced boolean and x-ray search.
• Write personalized outreach, test messaging, and own response-rate results.
• Run multiple searches at once with disciplined follow-up cadences, accurate ATS hygiene, and reliable data.
• Build market maps, talent density views, and competitive hiring insights to help shape role scope, leveling, and search strategy.
• Build diverse pipelines through broad research and inclusive outreach.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring managers on calibration, using market insights to refine roles and search strategies.
• Track and report funnel metrics, including response rate, screen pass rate, and stage conversion.
• Represent Plaid authentically in candidate conversations.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of technical sourcing experience, including in-house sourcing at a high-growth technology company.
• Strong sourcing research technique and tooling: boolean and x-ray search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub and technical communities, publications and conference sources, and CRM or ATS sourcing workflows. You can find people who are not searchable by just title or company name.
• Demonstrated success in high-volume, high-urgency environments, carrying multiple technical searches at once without dropping the details.
• Genuine fluency in technical skill sets. You can read a job spec, a GitHub profile, or a research paper and make a defensible call on relevance.
• Strong written and verbal communication. Your outreach is short, specific, and human, and senior engineers reply to it.
• Data discipline. You use funnel metrics to decide where to spend effort, and you can explain your pipeline with numbers rather than anecdotes.
• Meticulous attention to detail and personal ownership of your data hygiene.
• A candidate-first approach built on empathy, transparency, and consistent follow-through.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience sourcing in fintech, financial services, or another regulated environment.
• Experience producing talent intelligence or market mapping work that was presented to senior leadership and changed a hiring decision.
• Experience building sourcing playbooks or evaluating and rolling out sourcing tooling.
• Experience sourcing for distributed teams.
• Familiarity with inclusive sourcing practices and a track record of building diverse technical pipelines.