Overview In this role you will drive top-of-funnel talent discovery forShield AI's corporate functions and engineering hiring. You'll act as a strategic partner, building data-informed sourcing strategies and market intelligence to fuel a scalable recruiting engine. You'll design AI-powered workflows and repeatable processes to improve candidate discovery and engagement. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role in a mission-driven company that values innovative recruiting practices and proactive talent mapping.
Responsibilities- Define target profiles with recruiters and leaders and craft data-driven sourcing strategies across G&A and corporate functions
- Map the market to build talent landscapes by company, skillset, geography, and structure
- Identify and engage passive and specialized engineering talent using advanced sourcing channels and platforms
- Proactively build long-term pipelines for just-in-time hiring across strategic programs
- Design and optimize AI-powered sourcing workflows and automation to boost recruiter productivity
- Create repeatable sourcing systems, including market maps, talent intelligence reports, and outreach content
- Advise recruiters and hiring managers on market insights, strategy, and candidate engagement best practices
- Track sourcing effectiveness with analytics to improve conversion rates and evolve practices
Key requirements- 8+ years of sourcing experience in complex, high-growth environments
- Proven market mapping, competitive intelligence, and candidate generation for specialized technical roles
- Expertise in Boolean search and modern sourcing platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, HireEZ, SeekOut, ClearanceJobs, GitHub)
- Consultative partner to recruiters and leaders influencing hiring strategy with market insights
- Hands-on experience building AI-powered sourcing workflows and practical AI tools
- Experience engaging passive, cleared, or niche engineering talent
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills with technical audiences
- Strong judgment, curiosity, and ability to adopt emerging AI technologies in recruiting
- Highly organized, data-driven, autonomous work style in a fast-paced, mission-driven setting
- strong communication
- curiosity
- continuous improvement mindset
- advanced Boolean search
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- HireEZ
