Sourcer, Emerging Talent

Summary

Join OpenAI's Emerging Talent Recruiting & Programs team as a Sourcer and drive top-of-funnel activity, building meaningful candidate relationships to support emerging talent initiatives. You will work on highly specialized roles, managing all stages of the interview process, and partnering with hiring managers and technical leaders. This role requires building targeted searches, creating sourcing strategies to attract diverse talent, and crafting engaging outreach approaches. You will utilize non-traditional strategies, partner with hiring managers, and take a data-driven approach to candidate tracking. The position involves representing OpenAI at conferences and developing engaging opportunities for talent to experience OpenAI's culture. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in sourcing engineering and AI talent.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience identifying/sourcing Engineering and AI talent across a range of specializations
• Demonstrable success in hiring top technical talent at a premier tech company and/or high-growth startup
• Track record of delivering healthy candidate volume across a wide variety of roles. simultaneously while maintaining a high degree of responsiveness and care to each stakeholder and candidate in process
• A passion for the research and mapping components of Sourcing; it’s a long game

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary touchpoint for candidates from initial outreach until the onsite interview stage, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience throughout
• Build highly targeted searches that deliver candidate profiles with precision
• Create and operate sourcing strategies to attract diverse talent to OpenAI
• Craft thoughtful approaches to candidate outreach that will engage even the most passive talent and cultivate relationships with high priority targets over the long-term
• Utilize non-traditional and creative strategies to discover undervalued talent
• Partner with hiring managers across OpenAI to develop customized sourcing strategies for them
• Take a highly organized and data driven approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics
• Represent OpenAI and engage with candidates at conferences and events
• Develop creative and engaging opportunities for targeted talent to experience OpenAI culture and technical brand via innovative events

Preferred Qualifications

• Are deeply interested in technology and artificial intelligence, and their potential for positive impact on humanity
• Passionate about building and growing relationships
• Connect and relate to a wide range of people, personalities, and values
• Care deeply about building a diverse recruiting pipeline and inclusive work environment
• Have a history of balancing a high volume of open roles with ease
• Learn quickly and adapt well to a constantly evolving environment with shifting priorities

Benefits

• This role is based either in our San Francisco office or remote in the US
• There is an expectation that you will be in our San Francisco, CA offices monthly and potentially more during peak hiring and events seasons
• Additional domestic and international travel may be required
• Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, three in-house prepared meals daily, a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing, nap rooms, private bike storage, and more