The opportunity
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on…
What you'll do
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, github sourcing, 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 leaders.
What they're looking for
- 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 brand at company events, 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.
- + 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.
