Senior Candidate Sourcer / Resourcer – US Tech & AI

"Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope." — Star Wars: A New Hope Okay, we're probably not quite at Princess Leia levels of desperation. But Big Wave Digital has a very good problem. We suddenly have far more brilliant Technology and AI roles across the USA than Jules and I can possibly fill ourselves from Australia and New Zealand. We have the clients. We have the live roles. We have companies that genuinely want to hire. Now we need another seriously good Technology candidate sourcer who loves finding exceptional people. Soooo… that's where you come in. Who are Big Wave Digital? Big Wave Digital is a specialist Technology, AI and Digital recruitment agency founded in Sydney in 2010. I'm Keiran Hathorn, founder of Big Wave Digital, and I've spent more than 30 years in recruitment. Alongside me is Julia "Jules" Semmens, our Head of Australia & New Zealand, with more than 20 years of global recruitment experience. We're a small, experienced recruitment business. We don't want endless meetings, giant management structures or people spending more time reporting on recruitment than actually recruiting. We value something much simpler: Trust. Communication. Quality. Persistence. And never giving up on a difficult search. Over the last year our US business has grown rapidly, particularly across AI, emerging technology and venture-backed startups. We're now working on searches across San Francisco, New York, Boston and other major US technology markets. There are simply too many for Jules and me to cover properly ourselves. What would you actually do? Your world is the candidate side. Find them. Identify them. Approach them. Talk to them. Qualify them. Then hand the right people across to us. We handle the rest. You could be sourcing: AI Engineers Machine Learning Engineers Senior Software Engineers Founding Engineers Forward Deployed Engineers Forward Deployed Strategists AI Infrastructure specialists Technical Strategy talent Senior Product and Growth people Many of our searches sit around US$150,000 to US$400,000 total compensation, often with equity. These aren't necessarily easy searches. That's why we want someone who genuinely loves the sourcing trade. Someone who enjoys finding the person everyone else missed. We handle the clients and interviews This is important. You don't need to find clients. We already have them. Big Wave Digital handles the client relationships, hiring managers, candidate submissions, interview processes, feedback, negotiations and offers. There is no business development attached to this role. We're not going to suddenly ask you to start cold calling companies. You focus on the candidates. We handle the clients and interview process. Simple. Ideally, we'll start part time This is actually how we'd prefer to begin. We're not looking to throw someone into a 40-hour week immediately. Let's start sensibly. We might give you one role. Or three. Or five. Or ten. Yes, seriously. We have that many US searches. Then we see how we work together. You learn how Jules and I operate. We learn how you source, communicate and qualify candidates. We build a cadence. Hopefully we make a few placements. And if everyone loves working together, we grow it from there. So if you're already an independent sourcer, freelancer or recruiter and want to start with a handful of searches, part time suits us perfectly. Who are we looking for? Ideally, you have 5+ years specifically in Technology / IT recruitment, candidate sourcing or resourcing. Your title might have been: Senior Technology Sourcer Technical Sourcer IT Candidate Sourcer Technology Resourcer Candidate Delivery Consultant Technical Recruiter The title doesn't matter much. Knowing the trade does. You understand Technology recruitment. You know how to search beyond job titles and keywords. You can look at someone's background and work out whether they might genuinely fit. And importantly, you actually like talking to candidates. We're not looking for someone to send us 50 LinkedIn profiles and call it sourcing. Pick up the phone. Have a proper conversation. Understand what someone has built, what motivates them and what might make them move. You might be talking to an AI Engineer in San Francisco, a Founding Engineer in New York or an ML specialist in Boston. You'll qualify their experience, motivations, compensation, location, work authorisation, onsite requirements and availability. Then tell us their story. That's recruitment. Your sourcing tools You'll need your own sourcing setup, including access to something like LinkedIn Recruiter or LinkedIn Recruiter Lite, plus whatever email, contact-finding, database or calling tools you normally use. We're not going to tell an experienced sourcer exactly how to source. If you've spent 5+ years getting good at this, you've probably developed your own methods. We want you to use them. How we work We're pretty straightforward. Trust people. Communicate properly. Treat candidates like human beings. Quality over quantity. And when a search gets difficult, keep going. We communicate plenty, but we don't love pointless meetings. No daily meetings about yesterday's meeting. If you've found someone brilliant, tell us. If you're stuck, call us. If you think we're searching for the wrong profile, say so. We'd rather you spend your time actually talking to candidates. Why USA? We're sitting on the other side of the planet. Our candidates aren't. We're looking for someone based Canada or in the United States, working naturally across US business hours and able to speak with candidates when they're actually available. Much easier than Jules or me calling San Francisco at 3am Sydney time. How does the money work? This is a commission-only arrangement, rather than an hourly rate or salary. You'll receive an agreed percentage of the recruitment fee when someone you source is successfully placed. We'll be completely transparent about the percentage when we speak. Given the seniority and compensation levels of many of these US Technology and AI roles, placement fees can be significant. The simple version We have the clients. We have the jobs. We manage the clients and interviews. You find, engage, talk to and qualify exceptional candidates. We start with a role or ten. We build a rhythm. We make placements. And then we see where it goes. If you're an experienced Technology candidate sourcer with 5+ years in the trade sitting somewhere in the USA thinking: "Just give me the roles. I'll find you the people." Perfect. That's exactly who we're looking for. Email Keiran Hathorn at [email protected] and tell me briefly what you've sourced, where you're based, the tools you use and roughly how much time you'd like to commit initially. No giant cover letter. Just tell me what you're good at. Keiran Hathorn Founder & Managing Director Big Wave Digital Remote USA | Part Time to Start | Commission Only

Identify, approach, and qualify high-level technology and AI candidates for US-based roles. Hand over qualified talent to the management team who handle client relationships and the interview process.

Requires 5+ years of experience in technology recruitment or sourcing with a deep understanding of the AI and software engineering landscape. Must possess their own sourcing tools, such as LinkedIn Recruiter, and be based in the US or Canada.

Relevées dans la description du poste. Confirmez les exigences importantes ci-dessus.

• Candidate Sourcing
• Technical Recruiting
• Candidate Qualification
• AI Recruitment
• Talent Mapping
• Boolean Search
• Candidate Engagement
• Technical Screening

• Human Resources
• Technology
• Consulting

Expérience minimale

5+ ans

Postuler avant le

29 sept. 2026

Langue de l’offre

anglais

Heures de travail

40 heures par semaine

Exigences de lieu

Country, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Niveau d’expérience

Mid-Senior level

Mode de candidature

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