Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist - Talent Acquisition
About The Position
The Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist is a global expert in passive candidate discovery, talent mapping, market insights, and engagement. The role focuses on proactively identifying, mapping, and engaging top-tier global talent for complex roles and niche skill sets, building sustainable talent communities, and delivering market intelligence to shape hiring strategy. It supports recruiting for software engineering, quantum computing, and quantum sensing teams; quantum experience is not required. The specialist helps develop strategic sourcing capabilities, processes, and delivery frameworks; partners with technical teams and business leaders; and contributes to employer branding and talent-facing events. The position reports directly to the Talent Manager. Q-CTRL describes its culture as outcomes-focused and offers flexibility, equity potential, and competitive benefits. The targeted base salary range is $135,000–$195,000, with possible discretionary bonuses, equity, and other compensation depending on the position offered.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of total recruiting experience, primarily focused on proactive sourcing and engagement in a high-growth tech or startup environment; experience as a 360 recruiter in a deep-tech, fast-paced environment will also be considered.
- Proven experience gathering market intelligence and insights, analyzing hiring trends, and providing meaningful data to internal teams.
- Advanced expertise with modern sourcing tools, including LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Google X-Ray/Boolean search, academic publications, and technical databases.
- A proven track record of international hiring and identifying and engaging technical talent globally.
- Demonstrated ability to advise, influence, and partner effectively with talent teams, leaders, and cross-functional partners at all levels.
Nice To Haves
- At least 3 years of specialized recruitment sourcing experience across engineering, research, R&D, or the deep-tech startup sector.
- Experience targeting research science, physics, or specialized academic talent across international markets.
- Proficiency with Lever ATS and candidate relationship management tools.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building strategic sourcing capabilities, processes, and a delivery framework.
- Partner with software engineering, quantum computing, and quantum sensing teams to design and execute proactive sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill and niche technical domains.
- Build and nurture active talent communities for core and recurring capabilities across global markets, with an emphasis on the US.
- Craft personalized outreach to engage passive global talent for current and future business needs.
- Map global talent pools across key regions and advise hiring managers with market insights, candidate availability data, and hiring trends.
- Partner with the talent team, hiring managers, and department leaders to align on role requirements, define talent personas, and optimize top-of-funnel conversion.
- Contribute to talent-facing employer branding opportunities with support from the Talent Manager.
- Represent Q-CTRL at specialized global conferences and events.
Benefits
- Flexibility
- Equity potential
- Competitive benefits
- Possible annual discretionary bonuses, equity, and other forms of compensation, depending on the position offered
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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