As a Technical Sourcer on the JW Player team, you will join our efforts to identify and engage top engineering and technical talent across the globe. You will collaborate with a charismatic team of Talent Acquisition, HR and business professionals to gain the interest of passive technical candidates. You will partner with technical leadership and the Senior Technical Recruiter to identify key talent profiles primed to work on the most powerful video platform on the web while driving lead generating initiatives that supply continuous high-caliber candidate flow.

In this role you will:

• Identify and develop a strong pipeline of passive candidates across all roles in the product and engineering org
• Liaise between recruiters, coordinators and hiring managers to move candidates through the pipeline in the most efficient manner
• Use your deep understanding of the technical talent landscape to build well-defined sourcing strategies with clear timelines and succession plans
• Deliver key candidate market insights to the people team and hiring managers
• Build proactive relationships with passive candidates while maintaining alignment with the broader employee value proposition. Success is measured by the quality of insights generated to improve employer branding outreach
• Find creative and unconventional ways to foster and build new sources of talent (sourcing tools, strategic relationships with other companies/organizations in the industry and recruiting events)
• Quickly surface hiring trends/recommend changes to sourcing strategy when appropriate
• Exhibit flexibility and motivation to find extraordinary talent that turn into hires in an extremely competitive market
• Work closely with the talent acquisition team to build new and effective ways to foster diversity and inclusion across recruiting initiatives while staying compliant (EEO/Diversity Programs)

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• 2-3 years of technical recruiting experience, preferably in a high-growth technology or startup environment
• Prior knowledge sourcing for Software Engineering or Data Engineering teams specializing in front end, back end, full-stack and infrastructure/IT
• Proven ability to create and foster high touch relationships with active and passive candidates
• Experience with some/all of the following tools: Greenhouse, Google Suite, LinkedIn Recruiter, Microsoft Office
• Experience leveraging Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms to drive passive candidate engagement
• Ability to juggle multiple requisitions at once
• Ability to think fast and use good judgment
• Self starter with an incredible work ethic and team-first mentality
• Use of effective, timely communication approaches that include proactively keeping the recruiter informed and appropriately expressing ideas and thoughts in both verbal and written forms

Bonus Points:

• Experience working at companies that have scaled quickly
• Prior experience using a variety of search tools and techniques through social media channels, job boards and database mining (Boolean) to promote open positions and identify relevant talent
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

About JW Player

JW Player pioneered video on the web over a decade ago and continues to innovate as the world’s largest network-independent platform for video delivery and intelligence. Companies including AWS, Vice, Fox, Business Insider, and Univision, in addition to hundreds of thousands of creators of all types and sizes, rely on JW Player to deliver and monetize their content across all devices. JW Player’s massive global footprint of over 2 billion unique devices creates a powerful data graph of unique consumer insights and generates billions of incremental video views.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.