Requirements
- •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 to look for patterns, understand markets, and turn information into actionable insights
- •Strong written communication and 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 interest in building pipelines before the need becomes urgent
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
- •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 workflows, tools, documentation, and data to make research function more scalable and effective
- •Move fast while maintaining quality
- •Quickly turn new hiring priorities into structured research, target lists, market insights, and candidate pipelines
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
