Senior Executive Talent Sourcer (Contract) – Business, Operations & IT

CoreWeave•San Francisco, NY

29d•Hybrid

About The Position

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Talent Sourcer (Contract) to support high-impact hiring across critical and fast-moving organizations, focusing on executive and senior-level talent in Operations, IT, Revenue, GTM, G&A, and Marketing. This role is crucial for business-critical hiring related to infrastructure, operations, and commercial scale. The position requires a hybrid of sourcing, research, and talent partnership skills, including building executive pipelines, generating market intelligence, driving hard searches, and operating with a blend of automation and personalized executive outreach. The ideal candidate is organized, research-oriented, adept with executive messaging and AI sourcing tools, and comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders. The role emphasizes talent mapping, calibration, outreach strategy, executive research, and proactive pipeline building with measurable outcomes, aligning with internal sourcing and operating models.

Requirements

Significant experience in talent sourcing, executive sourcing, recruiting research, talent intelligence, executive search, or a closely related recruiting function.
Strong track record supporting executive or senior-level hiring across multiple major functional areas, ideally spanning some combination of Operations, IT, Supply Chain, Data Center, Revenue, GTM, G&A, or Marketing.
Deep research capability — producing usable insight, market perspective, and search direction.
Excellent executive-level messaging instincts and the ability to engage difficult-to-reach talent with credibility and personalization.
Strong sourcing judgment across multiple channels, including LinkedIn, referrals, CRM/ATS rediscovery, adjacent market mapping, and non-obvious talent paths.
High comfort level with modern AI sourcing, research, and outreach tools, and the judgment to use them well.
Strong data and analytics orientation, including comfort using outreach metrics, funnel insights, and search diagnostics to adjust strategy.
Strong understanding of leveling and talent calibration, especially in large-scale tech environments.
Executive presence and confidence in meetings with senior stakeholders.
Very strong organization and follow-through, with the ability to juggle a high volume of requirements at once, stay on top of many moving pieces, and not drop the ball in a fast-paced environment.
A highly proactive operating style — seeing gaps, clearing blockers, and pushing work forward without waiting to be told.
Strong market instincts, including knowing which companies tend to produce strong talent for specific functions, levels, and environments.
Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or eligible to access export controlled information without required authorization, or eligible and likely to obtain required authorization.

Nice To Haves

A strong existing network in relevant talent markets is highly desirable.
Experience supporting executive or highly strategic searches in high-growth technology, infrastructure, cloud, hyperscaler, data center, or AI-related environments is strongly preferred.
Experience supporting searches that combine operational scale with technical complexity is strongly preferred.
Familiarity with Business, Operations, IT, and GTM talent markets at companies with strong leveling discipline and mature hiring systems is preferred.
Experience operating in fast-moving environments where priorities can shift quickly and searches require both rigor and creativity is preferred.
Experience supporting international hiring, global market mapping, or contractor/FTE blended talent strategies is a plus.

Responsibilities

Support executive and senior-level searches across CoreWeave’s key functions, including COO/Operations and IT (Operations, IT, Supply Chain, Data Center, infrastructure-adjacent, international roles), CIO-aligned IT (networking, infrastructure, systems administration), CRO/Revenue and GTM (sales, revenue, business development, solutions, post-sales, commercial functions), select engineering-adjacent roles (field engineering, solutions engineering, light software engineering support), and Marketing and G&A (Legal, People Ops, Finance, Procurement, Executive Support).
Operate as a hybrid of sourcer, researcher, and talent partner.
Build and maintain strong, always-on executive pipelines.
Conduct deep market research and talent mapping.
Identify target companies and adjacent talent pools.
Create executive-grade candidate lists, market briefs, and search insights to shape strategy.
Execute highly personalized outreach and candidate messaging to attract hard-to-reach executive talent using a mix of automation, research, creativity, and strong follow-up.
Utilize modern AI sourcing, research, and outreach tools, tracking outreach analytics and funnel health.
Adjust strategy based on real-time conversion data and market signals.
Partner closely with recruiters and hiring leaders, attending intake, calibration, and stakeholder meetings.
Contribute informed market perspective and conduct initial candidate conversations as needed.
Help qualify early interest and move candidates forward by coordinating hiring manager and panel interviews.
Clear roadblocks and keep multiple high-priority searches moving.
Act as a strong market-facing representative of the talent function.