What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Sourcer (Contract) position at Owl.co?
About Owl
We’re building applied AI systems for high‑stakes, real‑world decisions. Our platform ingests and reasons over large, messy data to surface evidence with hard constraints around fairness, auditability, and low bias.
The single gnarliest, most impact‑heavy place this problem shows up is in insurance claims, so that’s where we’re deployed today, running in production at some of the largest carriers in North America.
We’re looking for a Technical Sourcer to support our Talent Acquisition pipeline during a period of accelerated hiring. This is a 4-month full-time contract role to start, focused on building top-of-funnel pipelines for highly specialized engineering, data, and infrastructure roles across our teams in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver.
If you love the hunt, know how to engage niche technical talent, and thrive in fast-paced environments, this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
Talent Sourcing
We’re building applied AI systems for high‑stakes, real‑world decisions. Our platform ingests and reasons over large, messy data to surface evidence with hard constraints around fairness, auditability, and low bias.
The single gnarliest, most impact‑heavy place this problem shows up is in insurance claims, so that’s where we’re deployed today, running in production at some of the largest carriers in North America.
We’re looking for a Technical Sourcer to support our Talent Acquisition pipeline during a period of accelerated hiring. This is a 4-month full-time contract role to start, focused on building top-of-funnel pipelines for highly specialized engineering, data, and infrastructure roles across our teams in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver.
If you love the hunt, know how to engage niche technical talent, and thrive in fast-paced environments, this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
Talent Sourcing
- Build and maintain strong pipelines for technical roles (e.g., software engineering, ML/AI, infrastructure, data).
- Use advanced sourcing strategies, tools, and platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, StackOverflow, niche communities, referrals, boolean searches, and creative outreach methods).
- Identify and engage passive talent using personalized, high-quality outreach aligned with Owl’s technical brand voice.
- Support the initial vetting process to assess technical fit, candidate motivation, and alignment with Owl’s mission.
- Collaborate closely with our Technical Recruiter & hiring managers to deeply understand role requirements, team needs, and ideal profiles.
- Provide weekly updates on pipeline health, sourcing insights, and market intelligence.
- Recommend sourcing strategies and target companies to support overall hiring planning.
- Maintain clean, accurate, and up-to-date candidate data in our ATS.
- Ensure an excellent candidate experience from first touch to handoff.
- Support diversity-focused sourcing and outreach strategies.
- Map relevant talent pools, competitive landscapes, and emerging candidate sources.
- Provide insights that inform hiring decisions and long-term workforce planning
- 4 years of sourcing experience with a focus on software development engineering.
- Proven track record of finding and engaging passive engineering & technical candidates in competitive markets.
- Strong Boolean search skills; familiarity with GitHub sourcing, technical communities, and alternative platforms.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to represent Owl’s mission and value proposition clearly and compellingly.
- Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with multiple searches at once.
- Experience with ATS systems (e.g., Workable or similar).
- Bonus: Experience sourcing for AI or deep tech functions.
- Full-time contract: 4 months (40 hours/week) with option to extend
- Competitive compensation
- Remote-first role with flexible working hours
- Immediate start
- Work with a mission-driven team shaping the future of claims intelligence.
- Help build high-impact technical teams that define Owl’s next chapter.
- Collaborate with talented leaders across engineering, product, research, and people operations.
- Make a meaningful contribution during an exciting phase of growth.