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Snorkel AI is seeking a Head of Talent Sourcing for its Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) business. This is a leadership role at the intersection of talent acquisition, marketplace supply, and business operations. You will build and lead a team of recruiters and sourcers focused on identifying and securing Domain Expert Contributors across specialized domains—technical, scientific, industry-specific, functional, language, data, and other hard-to-find expertise areas.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and scaling the talent sourcing team responsible for securing expert contributors for the DaaS business
- Building a scalable sourcing engine that identifies, engages, qualifies, and activates specialized talent across hard-to-fill domains
- Owning direct sourcing strategy across priority expert categories, including talent mapping, market research, outreach strategy, and pipeline generation
- Partnering closely with the DaaS Supply team to understand business priorities and translate supply strategy into actionable sourcing plans
- Developing and managing a high-performing team of recruiters and sourcers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and enablement
- Building sourcing playbooks, processes, systems, and operating rhythms that enable speed while maintaining quality
- Evaluating and optimizing sourcing tools, data enrichment platforms, outreach systems, and AI-enabled sourcing capabilities
- Using data to track pipeline health, outreach effectiveness, conversion rates, contributor quality, and source-of-supply performance
- Partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to improve contributor acquisition and onboarding workflows
- Identifying new sourcing channels and talent pools for niche expert categories
- Creating feedback loops between sourcing, supply planning, qualification, and delivery teams
- Ensuring the sourcing function responds to urgent customer needs while building long-term supply capacity
Required experience:
- Proven track record building and leading talent sourcing, recruiting, or contributor acquisition teams focused on hard-to-fill talent
- Deep expertise in direct sourcing strategy, talent mapping, Boolean/search methodology, outreach strategy, AI sourcing, and channel development
- Experience sourcing specialized talent across technical, scientific, industry, functional, language, research, or data domains
- Strong track record building scalable sourcing systems, processes, playbooks, and team operating models
- Experience managing and developing recruiters and sourcers in fast-paced environments
- Strong analytical orientation with ability to use data to diagnose gaps, improve conversion, and forecast capacity
- Experience partnering with business and operations teams to translate demand into sourcing strategies
