Founding General Sourcer (Technical + Business)

Role Overview

As Traba’s first dedicated sourcer, you’ll build the engine that finds and engages the top 1% of talent across engineering and business roles. You’ll act as a talent scout for Traba—deeply researching markets, engaging top candidates, and helping the company make world-class hires. You’ll work directly with our COO and Head of People to lay the foundation for how we scale top-tier teams—from sourcing strategy to candidate experience to talent insights. If you love building from scratch, thrive in ambiguity, and are obsessed with quality, this is your role.

Key Responsibilities

• Own sourcing across Engineering, Strategy & Ops, GTM, and Finance—driving top-of-funnel pipelines for our highest-priority roles.

• Find and engage top-tier candidates using creative and targeted search methods across:

  • GitHub, Stack Overflow, LinkedIn, X-ray searches

  • Slack/Discord/Reddit communities, Otta, BuiltIn, AngelList

  • AI tools like HireEZ, SeekOut, and more

• Personalize outreach that resonates with technical and business candidates based on their career arc, motivations, and signal.

• Build scalable systems: talent maps, market insights, outreach playbooks, and structured reporting in Ashby.

• Use Ashby and analytics to improve pass-through rates, monitor funnel health, and uncover sourcing bottlenecks.

• Partner closely with hiring managers to refine profiles, test sourcing hypotheses, and iterate quickly.

• Provide market intel to influence go-to-market and product hiring strategies across the business.

Qualifications

• Have 3+ years of sourcing experience across technical and business functions at a high-growth company or startup.

• Can distinguish between strong and average across both domains — e.g., React, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL for Engineering roles vs. SQL, Excel, analytics, strategic frameworks, market analysis, and financial modeling for Business roles (Strategy & Ops, GTM, Finance)

• Are fluent in creative sourcing techniques beyond LinkedIn, including advanced Boolean/X-ray searches and community-based sourcing.

• Skilled in generating market insights and building talent maps to identify areas of opportunity and proactively fill gaps.

• Operate with a builder’s mindset and thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with shifting priorities.

• Can handle high-volume sourcing—500+ high-signal outbound messages per week

• 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: We set ambitious goals and strive to make a global impact, never sacrificing long-term value for short-term gains.

• Olympian’s Work Ethic: Changing the world requires dedication. We work smarter, harder, and longer when necessary, putting everything into our mission.

• Growth Mindset: We tackle challenges head-on, learn from failures, and persist with resilience.

• Customer Obsession: We go the extra mile for our clients and workers, ensuring we deliver high-quality products and services that truly meet their needs.

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