Job Description

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

As Traba’s first dedicated sourcer, you will build the engine for identifying and engaging the top 1% of talent across engineering and business roles. You will act as a talent scout for Traba, deeply researching markets, engaging top candidates, and helping the company make world-class hires. You will work directly with our COO and Head of People to lay the foundation for scaling top-tier teams, covering everything from sourcing strategy to candidate experience and talent insights. This role is ideal for individuals who love building from scratch, thrive in ambiguity, and are obsessed with quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Sourcing: Drive top-of-funnel pipelines across Engineering, Strategy & Ops, Go-to-Market (GTM), and Finance for our highest-priority roles.
• Candidate Engagement: Find and engage top-tier candidates using creative and targeted search methods across various platforms, including:
  • GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, X-ray searches
  • Slack/Discord/Reddit communities, Otta, BuiltIn, AngelList
  • AI tools like HireEZ, SeekOut, and more
• Personalized Outreach: Craft personalized outreach that resonates with technical and business candidates based on their career arc, motivations, and signals.
• System Building: Develop scalable systems, including talent maps, market insights, outreach playbooks, and structured reporting in Ashby.
• Data & Analytics: Utilize Ashby and analytics to improve pass-through rates, monitor funnel health, and identify sourcing bottlenecks.
• Hiring Manager Collaboration: Partner closely with hiring managers to refine profiles, test sourcing hypotheses, and iterate quickly.
• Market Intelligence: Provide market intel to influence go-to-market and product hiring strategies across the business.

Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years of sourcing experience across technical and business functions at a high-growth company or startup.
• Technical & Business Acumen: Ability to distinguish strong from average candidates in both technical domains (e.g., React, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL) and business domains (e.g., SQL, Excel, analytics, strategic frameworks, market analysis, financial modeling for Strategy & Ops, GTM, Finance).
• Sourcing Techniques: Fluency in creative sourcing techniques beyond LinkedIn, including advanced Boolean/X-ray searches and community-based sourcing.
• Market Insight Generation: Skilled in generating market insights and building talent maps to identify opportunities and proactively fill gaps.
• Mindset: Operate with a builder’s mindset and thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with shifting priorities.
• Volume Handling: Capacity to handle high-volume sourcing, including sending 500+ high-signal outbound messages per week.
• Communication & Organization: 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: Setting ambitious goals and striving for global impact, prioritizing long-term value.
• Olympian’s Work Ethic: Dedication, working smarter, harder, and longer when necessary to achieve the mission.
• Growth Mindset: Tackling challenges, learning from failures, and persisting with resilience.
• Customer Obsession: Going the extra mile for clients and workers to deliver high-quality products and services.

🚀 Join Traba to make a meaningful impact on the future of staffing and the lives of countless workers and businesses.