Technical Sourcer

Hyphenate•New York, NY

About The Position

Hyphenate is building an AI operating system for CFO offices, with Audit-Ready AI Agents that automate finance work across existing business systems. The company has raised $9M and is preparing for its Series A. As Hyphenate’s first in-house sourcing hire, you will build talent pipelines to support the company’s growth and reduce reliance on external agencies. Your primary focus will be software engineering hiring across early-career, mid-level, senior, and staff levels, with additional support for product roles. You will own sourcing from talent research and personalized outreach through initial candidate conversations and handoff to the hiring team. This is a hands-on role requiring research instincts, excellent communication, and persistence. You will partner with founders and hiring managers, conduct high-volume but carefully targeted outreach, maintain candidate records, develop new talent sources, and improve the sourcing process using pipeline data and hiring-team feedback.

Requirements

2–4 years of technical sourcing or recruiting experience, including hands-on sourcing for early-stage startups.
Experience sourcing software engineers across experience levels, including senior and staff engineers.
Experience building and managing outbound campaigns, candidate pipelines, and talent CRM workflows.
Experience working closely with founders or engineering leaders to translate hiring needs into focused searches.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write compelling outreach and confidently pitch an early-stage company.
Experience using sourcing and recruiting tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, HireVue, SeekOut, Juicebox, and Metaview; mastery of every tool is not required.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a founding recruiter or early recruiting hire at a Series A or Series B startup.
Experience helping grow an engineering team at a company scaling within roughly 20–150 employees.
Experience building sourcing processes and talent databases from scratch.
Experience sourcing for product roles alongside engineering.
Experience reaching hard-to-engage candidates through creative channels, events, or cold calling.

Responsibilities

Partner with founders and hiring managers to understand hiring priorities, define candidate personas, and identify candidates who meet technical and cultural expectations.
Build targeted talent pipelines for software engineering and product roles.
Source and engage candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing platforms, research, referrals, communities, and cold-email campaigns.
Create personalized email and LinkedIn outreach and follow-up sequences.
Reach approximately 50–100 newly shortlisted candidates daily across channels and manage 75–100+ daily cold-email sends, including follow-ups, while maintaining targeting and message quality.
Lead initial candidate conversations, explain Hyphenate’s mission and engineering challenges, understand candidate motivations, and build interest in the team.
Maintain organized, searchable candidate databases with clear records of outreach, engagement, fit, and future hiring potential.
Experiment with cold calling, community partnerships, meetups, and recruiting events in New York.
Track response rates, qualified conversations, and pipeline conversion, and refine the sourcing approach using results and hiring-team feedback.