Senior Technical Sourcer

Brex Brex · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · People

This role is for a Senior Technical Sourcer at Brex, an AI-native finance platform. The primary responsibility is to identify, engage, and build pipelines of world-class technical talent across various domains including engineering, data, product, and AI. The role requires advanced sourcing techniques, market research, and collaboration with hiring managers to meet immediate and long-term hiring needs. It also emphasizes diversity sourcing and process improvement within the recruiting team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead end-to-end sourcing strategies for technical roles across engineering, data, product, AI, and other specialized functions.
  2. Conduct market research, competitive intelligence, and talent mapping to inform hiring strategies and pipeline development.
  3. Proactively identify and engage passive candidates through creative outreach across platforms such as LinkedIn, GitHub, and and other talent networks.
  4. Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to align on candidate profiles, calibrate talent, and refine search strategies.
  5. Build and nurture long-term talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles, including future-facing skill sets.

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years of experience sourcing for technical roles (e.g., software engineering, infrastructure, data, product, AI) in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Demonstrated expertise in advanced sourcing techniques, Boolean search, talent mapping, and market research.
  • Strong understanding of technical skill sets, engineering org structures, and emerging technology trends.
  • Proven ability to engage and convert passive candidates through thoughtful, personalized outreach.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build trust with technical leaders.
  • Data-driven mindset with experience using sourcing metrics to refine strategy and improve results.
  • Ability to manage multiple high-priority searches simultaneously while maintaining quality and attention to detail.

Nice to have

  • Experience sourcing for AI/ML, agentic AI, or other emerging technical domains.
  • Experience recruiting or sourcing across multiple geographies (e.g., US, Canada, LATAM).
  • Familiarity with tools such as Gem, Greenhouse, or other modern sourcing and CRM platforms.
  • Experience contributing to employer branding, talent marketing, or community-building initiatives.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI/ML
  • technical talent
  • AI
  • technical roles
  • technical skill sets
  • emerging technology trends
  • AI/ML
  • agentic AI