Technical Sourcer, Discord
Temporary
$132-165k
Voice, video and text communication platform
Posted today
Voice, video and text communication platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$132-165k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in technical sourcing or recruitment, preferably in a high-growth tech company environment on job profiles such as distributed systems and product engineering
- Demonstrated success hiring senior, staff and principal-level engineers, and engineering managers in competitive, constrained talent markets
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand complex engineering roles, evaluate technical qualifications, and effectively translate technical requirements into sourcing signals and candidate evaluation criteria
- Expert-level proficiency with boolean search techniques and advanced sourcing methods, including x-ray searches, GitHub/repository mining, conference/publication tracking, and creative talent identification strategies beyond traditional platforms
- Proficiency with modern sourcing tools and platforms, including SeekOut Recruit, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and applicant tracking systems (Ashby or Greenhouse) and open-mindedness to experimenting with AI tooling
- Expertise in market mapping and talent pool analysis, with ability to size addressable markets, assess hiring feasibility, identify capability gaps, and provide data-backed insights on competitive talent dynamics to inform hiring strategy
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and influence technical hiring managers, interview teams, and senior leadership through structured insights and consultative partnership
- Strong pipeline management capabilities with ability to rigorously prioritize and balance multiple requisitions at varying stages simultaneously in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- A proven track record of successfully sourcing candidates in areas such as cloud infrastructure, distributed computing, systems engineering, and feature development
- Data-driven mindset with ability to track, analyze, and report on key sourcing metrics (interested response rates, activation rates, conversion ratios, source effectiveness) and translate insights into actionable strategy adjustments
What the job involves
- Discord's Talent team is seeking a strategic Technical Sourcer to support our most complex engineering roles with passive candidate activation
- In this role, you'll partner directly with engineering leadership to conduct market intelligence, size talent pools, and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles
- You'll be responsible for translating technical requirements into targeted sourcing approaches, building robust candidate pipelines through deep market analysis and personalized outreach, and serving as a trusted advisor on talent availability and competitive dynamics
- Success in this role requires a consultative mindset, strong analytical capabilities, and proven expertise activating passive talent in highly constrained technical markets
- Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders to deeply understand role requirements, technical stack nuances, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles, translating technical requirements into effective sourcing criteria
- Conduct comprehensive total addressable market (TAM) research to size talent pools, identify hiring feasibility, and inform realistic hiring timelines for niche technical roles
- Develop detailed job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations, identifying companies with relevant technical stacks, and creating target account lists that align with Discord's technical architecture and culture
- Build and execute customized sourcing strategies for each requisition, leveraging boolean search, x-ray techniques, and competitive intelligence to uncover and activate passive talent in highly specialized areas
- Identify and engage talent in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize our teams
- Craft highly personalized, compelling outreach campaigns that articulate Discord's unique technical challenges and demonstrate genuine understanding of candidates' work, engaging even the most passive senior, staff-level engineers and engineering managers
- Own candidate experience from initial outreach through recruiter handoff, maintaining consistent communication, setting clear expectations, and ensuring smooth transitions that reflect Discord's candidate-first approach
- Represent Discord's engineering brand at technical conferences, meetups, and industry events, building long-term relationships and nurturing talent communities for sustained pipeline development
- Practice strong data hygiene across our recruiting systems and maintain rigorous pipeline health metrics including interested response rates, activation rate, next step pass-through rate, and source effectiveness, using data to continuously optimize sourcing approaches and demonstrate ROI
Our take
Discord is an industry giant in the chat app space. The free platform has rapidly become one of the most popular services in the sector since being founded in 2015. It counts over 200M active users in 19M communities, successfully expanding beyond its original focus on video game players to become a broader social networking app and public forum.
Discord's userbase has grown rapidly as remote work has become the norm and a new generation of internet users has come online, attracted to its youthful presentation and plethora of gaming and social tools. It has since fended off takeover bids from Microsoft and interest from other giants such as Amazon and X, and has grown into a profitable company, funded by optional subscription fees and commissions from sales through the platform.
Discord’s remarkable growth, however, is not without obstacles. The company faces competition from deep-pocketed giants like Facebook, and regulatory concerns from those worried about the platform’s relatively light chat moderation. However, the company has the resources and expertise to adapt. For example, the acquisition of harassment detection software company Sentropy will go a long way towards placating the concerns of critics, as will the 2024 acquisition of teen app Gas used to give anonymous compliments to friends. All of these purchases are part of Discord's move to expand out of its mostly gaming-focused customer base.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Sep 2021
$500m
SERIES H
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES H
Total funding: $979.3m
Company HQ
Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Casamba and then Kabam. Also worked as a Lead Software Engineer at GREE International, and founded social network Guildwork.com in 2009.
Humam Sakhnini
(CEO)Humam joined the Discord team in 2025 as CEO. Prior to this, he was the VIce Chairman and Chief Strategy & Talent Officer at Activision Blizzard as well as the CFO/President at King. He also spent 8 years at McKinsey & Company as a Partner.
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