Senior Technical Sourcer (Contract)

TL;DR: We’re looking for a Senior Technical Sourcer who can build our technical pipeline from the ground up — someone who loves the craft, thrives in ambiguity, and can identify and engage exceptional EPD talent before anyone else does. You’ll partner closely with founders, hiring managers, and our small-but-senior EPD team to shape our top-of-funnel strategy and set the bar for what “great talent” looks like at Listen Labs.

This is a true 0 → 1 opportunity: you’ll design how sourcing works here, create the systems that scale, map global talent markets, and become the first touchpoint for candidates who will ultimately influence Listen’s trajectory.

Background

Listen Labs is an AI-powered research platform that helps teams uncover insights from customer interviews in hours — not months. We help customers analyze conversations, surface themes, and make faster, smarter product decisions.

Company highlights — entirely product-led:

• World-Class Team: Founded by serial entrepreneurs (previous AI exit), former co-founders, and talent from Jane Street, Twitter, Stripe, Affirm, Bain, Goldman Sachs, and many more Sequoia-backed startups (plus IOI/ICPC backgrounds).

• Hypergrowth: We’re a 30-person team backed by Sequoia, growing from $0 to a $10M run-rate in under a year. We move fast, care deeply about craft, and love working with people who take ownership.

• Traction: Rapid growth across segments with enterprise wins at Google, Microsoft, Nestlé, and P&G.

• Performance: Industry-leading win rate driven by a highly differentiated product.

• Market Validation: Consistently winning customers across all segments with over six-figure lands that lead to quick expansions.

• Viral Product: Interviews are shared with tens of thousands of viewers, fueling PLG, organic expansion, and daily inbound from Fortune 500s.

What You’ll Do

• Find and engage exceptional talent across engineering, product, and design.

• Run targeted searches using LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Juicebox, academic work, open-source contributions, and conference signals.

• Partner with founders and hiring managers to nail role clarity and define what “great” looks like.

• Map communities and track emerging talent from top labs, universities, and industry groups.

• Qualify candidates through sharp, high-signal conversations on skills, trajectory, and fit.

• Build relationships with standout talent long before they’re on the market.

• Use creative sourcing tactics, referrals, and competitive insights to build high-quality pipelines.

• Move fast and adapt as priorities shift across a high-velocity org.

• Track what’s working, what’s not, and iterate quickly based on data.

• Source effectively across new and global markets, tailoring outreach to each talent landscape.

Who You Are

• 4+ years of technical sourcing experience with a track record of finding standout engineering, product, and design talent.

• Strong technical fluency — able to navigate engineering conversations and parse nuanced skill sets and research work.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment where priorities shift and speed matters.

• Creative, resourceful, and experimental — you try new tactics, iterate quickly, and let data guide you.

• Exceptional communicator who builds trust with candidates and internal partners across EPD.

• High ownership, detail-oriented, and metrics-minded — you know how to run a tight funnel.

• Curious, scrappy, and impact-driven — aligned with Listen Labs’ culture of building fast, learning fast, and raising the bar.

Life at Listen Labs

• Competitive Compensation: We’re backed by world-class investors, including Sequoia Capital, Conviction, AI Grant, and Pear VC, and offer competitive compensation packages with meaningful equity ownership.

  • Over $30B in market cap has been created in adjacent industries (Medallia, AlphaSense, GLG, Ipsos, Kantar). Our Sequoia partner, Bryan Schreier, was the first investor in Qualtrics—a $12B company tackling similar problems to ours.

• Benefits that Support You: Comprehensive healthcare and dental coverage, flexible time off to recharge, and an environment that values balance and trust.

• Room to Grow: As an early member of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to take on new responsibilities, shape processes from scratch, and grow alongside the company. We value people who want to stretch beyond their role and build something lasting.