Job Description
Remote | Full-time | English B2+ | Base + Commission
This is not a classic sourcing role.
As a Talent Sourcer at A-Players, you’re not “supporting recruiters” or sending generic outreach. You are a strategic researcher and signal-finder who operates in an AI-native way, using modern tools to research, map markets, and identify real A-Players who are rarely actively looking and hard to spot.
- You’ll work closely with Talent Partners and clients, dive deep into each role and company context, and own sourcing strategy end-to-end.What You’ll OwnSourcing strategy
- Deeply understand the client’s product, culture, and hiring goals
- Build sourcing hypotheses: where A-Players are likely to be, and why
- Identify non-obvious talent pools, companies, and career patterns
- High-signal candidate identification
- Use LinkedIn, Boolean search, GitHub, referrals, and creative sourcing methods
- Apply the A-Players sourcing framework to assess signal vs noise
- Prioritize quality over volume
- Personalized outreach
- Craft thoughtful, human, highly personalized messages
- Tailor outreach based on a candidate’s background, motivations, and career trajectory
- Continuously iterate messaging based on response quality, not just response rate
- Collaboration with Talent Partners and clients
- Work as a true partner to Talent Partners on each search
- Share insights on candidate motivations, market signals, and role positioning
- Join interviews or client calls when helpful (optional, but encouraged)
- Process & craft improvement
- Contribute to improving our sourcing playbooks, scripts, and tooling
- Share learnings about market shifts, hiring bars, and emerging talent hubs
- Bring ideas on how sourcing can create more leverage for the business
Who This Role Is For
- You’ll feel at home here if you:
- Have strong sourcing experience in tech (1+ years preferred)
- Enjoy deep research and pattern recognition
- Can spot A-Player signals beyond job titles and keywords
- Write excellent, concise, human outreach in English
- Are self-directed, curious, and allergic to micromanagement
- Care about craft and long-term reputation, not shortcuts
- Work in an AI-native way: you already use AI tools in your daily workflow (research, market mapping, candidate analysis, communication) or actively experiment with them to think faster, go deeper, and make better hiring decisions
- Requirements
- Strong written English (Upper-Intermediate or higher)
- Experience with LinkedIn, Boolean search, and modern sourcing tools
- Full-time availability (not a freelance or side role)
- Markets & Searches
- Clients:
- ~60% US
- ~35% Europe
- ~5% Ukraine (impact-driven companies)
- Search focus:
- Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Leadership roles
- Senior and hard-to-hire profiles
- US and EU markets primarily
- Recent closed/active searches include:
- VP of Marketing (Growth & AI) (US)
- AI Engineer (US & EU)
- Founding Design Engineer (EU)
- Product Designer (EU)
- Director of Lead Generation (US)
- VP of Marketing (Growth & AI) (US)
- Customer Success Manager (CSM) (US)
- VC Analyst (US & EU)
- CX Director (UA)
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer (US & EU)
- Lead Backend Engineer (UA)
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About A-Players
A-Players is a US-based recruiting company with a Ukrainian core team. We work exclusively with impact-driven tech startups and VCs in the US and Europe — from early-stage, YC-backed teams to post-Series A companies scaling their leadership and core functions.
- We don’t operate as a traditional agency.We embed deeply into our clients’ teams, work on full exclusivity, join weekly syncs, help founders shape hiring strategy, and own searches end-to-end.What Makes A-Players Different
- Sourcing is treated as a strategic function, not a support task
- High hiring bar — both for candidates and for ourselves
- Real collaboration with Talent Partners and founders
- Transparency around business numbers and decision-making
- A culture built on Excellence and Empathy
- Hiring Process
- Intro / pre-screen call
- Deep-dive interview
- Call with our Founder
- Call with our Co-Founder
- Final culture-fit conversation
Ready to Join?
If you’re excited by ownership, complexity, and building something meaningful — we’d love to meet you.
Apply or reach out, and let’s start with a conversation.
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