Senior Technical Sourcer - Location Flexible
Role Description
We're looking for a world class technical sourcer to join our team. Sourcers are subject matter experts in the talent market, and serve as the ultimate go-to for external, hard-to-find searches that result in game-changing hires for Dropbox. It’s the sourcer’s responsibility to provide market intel, appropriate hiring expectations, creative methodologies, and ongoing reporting to every hiring partner from the role’s outreach stage until the onsite. Sourcers are not just interested in their own success, but also in enabling everyone around them to become more knowledgable, efficient, strategic, and effective. If you’re a team player with a passion for finding hidden talent who loves delivering incredible results, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
- Become a member of a tight-knit partnership with client-aligned recruiters.
- Partner with your clients, our hiring managers, to deeply understand their hiring needs and to develop strong, client-side, advocates for your prospects.
- Plan and execute creative and effective sourcing strategies to find talent that is both rare and in high demand.
- Maintain both fast turnaround, and long-term, relationship-driven, prospect pipelines.
- Use your experience and expertise to identify, attract, and evaluate your target prospects.
- Utilize inbound marketing techniques as part of a comprehensive prospect attraction strategy.
- Demonstrate excellent time management and project management skills to optimize weekly, monthly, and quarterly results which meet, or exceed, target metrics.
- Provide a truly uncommon customer experience for all prospects and potential new Dropboxers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of sourcing or full life cycle recruiting experience required.
- Expertise in both traditional and advanced talent sourcing techniques including full proficiency with boolean searching, experience with a wide array of specialized sourcing tools, and a deep understanding of the primary resource sites, coding competitions, code repositories, groups, discussion forums, and conferences most frequented by software engineers.
- A deep and wide network of talent within the software and infrastructure engineering world.
- Keeps prospect data updated and accurate AND recognizes the value that comes from developing a long-term, internal, talent database.
- Experience building and developing pipelines of qualified, underrepresented candidates.
- Experience acting in a consultative manner where your guidance has led to improved outcomes, a positive candidate experience, while earning the respect of your peers and clients.
- Can demonstrate specific examples of how data and metrics have shaped your messaging to prospects, your overall strategy to develop a pipeline, and the building of trust with your clients.
- Extraordinary teamwork and multi-tasking skills.
- Thrives and can prioritize in an agile, rapidly changing environment.
- The ideal sourcer will have some basic hands-on programming experience.
- Bachelor's degree is ideal, but not required.