Contract Senior Talent Sourcer

We’re looking for a Senior Talent Sourcer who lives and breathes talent discovery - someone who can take complex and nuanced search requirements and translate it into a precision sourcing strategy. You’ll be the go-to expert for executive talent market mapping, proactive candidate generation, and pipeline cultivation across multiple functions. 

This is a strategic role where you will build market intelligence, relationships, and repeatable systems that fuel the executive recruiting practice and impact WD’s strategic direction. As a Senior Talent Sourcer, you'll serve as a strategic partner to Recruiting, and hiring leaders across WD. You will be expected to leverage modern AI tools and scalable sourcing practices to help us identify and hire world-class executive talent. You will be at the table, operating with a leader mindset that helps drive decision-making. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

The activities below highlight some key deliverables:

• Lead Top of Funnel Strategy: Partner closely with recruiters and hiring leaders to define target profiles and build deep, data-informed sourcing strategies across multiple functions. 

• Deliver Market Mapping: Develop comprehensive talent landscapes across the AI Infrastructure ecosystem by company, skillset, geography, and organizational structure; identify hidden talent pools, competitor insights, and emerging talent trends to inform recruiting strategy and workforce planning. 

• Attract & Engage: Use advanced Boolean search techniques, sourcing platforms, and creative sourcing channels (The Org, Pitchbook, Crunchbase, conferences and more) to identify, engage, and attract exceptional executive technical talent. 

• Create a Talent Pool Strategy: Cultivate long-term relationships with passive and highly specialized talent to enable speed of hire and succession plan execution. 

• Leverage AI to Efficiently Scale: Design, build, and continuously improve AI-powered sourcing workflows, research agents, and practical automations that increase recruiting productivity, accelerate candidate discovery, enhance market intelligence, and improve operational efficiency. 

• Be a Force Multiplier: Serve as the subject matter expert on strategic sourcing by coaching recruiters and hiring managers on market insights, sourcing strategy, talent availability, competitive intelligence, candidate engagement best practices, and emerging recruiting technologies. 

• Partner Across COEs: Collaborate cross-functionally with Talent Intelligence, Talent Acquisition Operations and Employer Brand teams to optimize recruiting strategies, outbound messaging, candidate experience, and operational excellence.

Department: Human Resources
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level