Technical Sourcer, Engineering (Contract)

About the Team

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this.

In pursuit of this mission, our Recruiting team is responsible for finding, assessing, and hiring exceptional talent across various fields and specialties. The team acts as consultative and operational partners to our teams across OpenAI and up to our CEO, Sam Altman. We’re an established, collaborative team with a balance of structure, process, and ambitious problems to solve for.

​​About the role

This role will be contracted for a 12-month engagement and will report to one of our Recruiting Leads.

You’ll have the opportunity to drive top of funnel activity and build meaningful candidate relationships in order to support our technical teams’ hiring ambitions. 

You’ll work on a wide range of highly specialized roles and drive all stages of the top-end interview process and elsewhere when necessary. You’ll support hiring manager relationships, identify and engage leading experts in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize our teams.

In this role, you will:

• Act as the primary touchpoint for candidates from initial outreach until the onsite interview stage, ensuring an exceptional candidate experience throughout.
• Build highly targeted searches that deliver candidate profiles with precision.
• Craft thoughtful approaches to candidate outreach that will engage even the most passive talent and cultivate relationships with high priority targets over the long-term.
• Utilize non-traditional and creative strategies to discover undervalued talent.
• Partner with hiring managers across OpenAI to develop customized sourcing strategies for them.
• Take a highly organized and data driven approach to candidate tracking and funnel metrics.
• Represent OpenAI and engage with candidates at conferences and events.

Our ideal candidates will have:

• 5+ years of experience identifying/sourcing Engineering and AI talent across a range of specializations.
• Demonstrable success in hiring top technical talent at a premier tech company and/or high-growth startup
• Track record of delivering healthy candidate volume across a wide variety of roles. simultaneously while maintaining a high degree of responsiveness and care to each stakeholder and candidate in process.
• A passion for the research and mapping components of Sourcing; it’s a long game.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Are deeply interested in technology and artificial intelligence, and their potential for positive impact on humanity.
• Passionate about building and growing relationships.
• Connect and relate to a wide range of people, personalities, and values.
• Care deeply about building a diverse recruiting pipeline and inclusive work environment.
• Have a history of balancing a high volume of open roles with ease.
• Learn quickly and adapt well to a constantly evolving environment with shifting priorities.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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