Role Overview
As Traba’s first dedicated sourcer, you’ll build the engine that finds and engages the top 1% of talent across engineering and business roles. You’ll act as a talent scout for Traba—deeply researching markets, engaging top candidates, and helping the company make world-class hires. You’ll work directly with our COO and Head of People to lay the foundation for how we scale top-tier teams—from sourcing strategy to candidate experience to talent insights. If you love building from scratch, thrive in ambiguity, and are obsessed with quality, this is your role.
Key Responsibilities
- Own sourcing across Engineering, Strategy & Ops, GTM, and Finance—driving top-of-funnel pipelines for our highest-priority roles.
- Find and engage top-tier candidates using creative and targeted search methods across:
- GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, X-ray searches
- Slack/Discord/Reddit communities, Otta, BuiltIn, AngelList
- AI tools like HireEZ, SeekOut, and more
- Personalize outreach that resonates with technical and business candidates based on their career arc, motivations, and signal.
- Build scalable systems: talent maps, market insights, outreach playbooks, and structured reporting in Ashby.
- Use Ashby and analytics to improve pass-through rates, monitor funnel health, and uncover sourcing bottlenecks.
- Partner closely with hiring managers to refine profiles, test sourcing hypotheses, and iterate quickly.
- Provide market intel to influence go-to-market and product hiring strategies across the business.
Qualifications
- Have 3+ years of sourcing experience across technical and business functions at a high-growth company or startup.
- Can distinguish between strong and average across both domains — e.g., React, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL for Engineering roles vs. SQL, Excel, analytics, strategic frameworks, market analysis, and financial modeling for Business roles (Strategy & Ops, GTM, Finance)
- Are fluent in creative sourcing techniques beyond LinkedIn, including advanced Boolean/X-ray searches and community-based sourcing.
- Skilled in generating market insights and building talent maps to identify areas of opportunity and proactively fill gaps.
- Operate with a builder’s mindset and thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with shifting priorities.
- Can handle high-volume sourcing—500+ high-signal outbound messages per week
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, with a bias for action and iteration
Benefits
- 📈 Start-up equity
- 💰 Competitive Salary
- 🩺 100% Paid health, dental & vision coverage
- 🍽️ Dinner provided via Doordash & stocked kitchen for NY employees
- 🚍 Commuter benefit
- 🎤 Team building events
- 🏋🏽 Gympass Benefit
- 🌴 Flexible PTO
- ✚✚ Additional: One Medical Membership, HSA via Optum, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
Our Values
- Dream BIG: We set ambitious goals and strive to make a global impact, never sacrificing long-term value for short-term gains.
- Olympian’s Work Ethic: Changing the world requires dedication. We work smarter, harder, and longer when necessary, putting everything into our mission.
- Growth Mindset: We tackle challenges head-on, learn from failures, and persist with resilience.
- Customer Obsession: We go the extra mile for our clients and workers, ensuring we deliver high-quality products and services that truly meet their needs.
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Join Traba to make a meaningful impact on the future of staffing and the lives of countless workers and businesses.
