Technical Sourcer (12-Month Contract)

About the team

In order to fulfill OpenAI’s ambitious technical mission, we must hire an incredibly talented, hard-working, mission-aligned, and diverse team. The Sourcing team at OpenAI works cross-functionally with all hiring managers throughout the organization to find and attract incredible talent, provide an excellent candidate experience, and maintain our high hiring bar.

About the role

We’re looking to contract a Sourcer, for up to 12 months, who will work on OpenAI’s Engineering sourcing strategy and execution. We believe our mission deserves the world’s best talent, and that begins with sourcing.

As a sourcer focusing on our Applied AI teams, you’ll have the opportunity to act as a talent partner and build out org-wide best practices and processes. This role will focus on talent mapping, engaging candidates, and managing their top-of-funnel process and experience.

The compensation range for this role, based on a 40-hour workweek, is:

• San Francisco: $91/hour to $115/hour

• Remote US: $73/hour - $92/hour

In this role, you will:

• Partner with hiring managers across the business to build and improve recruiting processes and develop customized sourcing strategies for each of your roles.

• Build highly targeted searches that deliver candidate profiles with precision.

• Craft thoughtful approaches to candidate outreach that will engage even the most passive talent.

• Cultivate relationships with high priority targets over the long-term.

• Act as the primary touchpoint for candidates from initial outreach until the onsite interview stage, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience throughout.

• Utilize non-traditional and creative strategies to discover undervalued talent.

• Take a highly organized and data driven approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics.

Ideal candidates will have:

• 5+ years of experience sourcing Engineering 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 talent research and mapping components of Sourcing; it’s a long game.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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