Staff Technical Sourcer

About Databricks

Databricks is the lakehouse company. More than 9,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe. Founded by the original creators of Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow, Databricks is on a mission to help data teams solve the world’s toughest problems. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. For more information, visit www.databricks.com.

About the team

Technical recruiting at Databricks consists of a team of talent acquisition specialists who have invested their entire careers focused on helping their clients identify, attract, and hire the most qualified individuals for our clients.  Our team is geographically distributed, with presence in Bay Area, Washington and remote US . Collectively, we are responsible for identifying, attracting and recruiting Technical candidates, who are transforming Databricks globally across all functions in this critical growth stage. Our clients are the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and their managers.  We are engaged in hiring for all Technical roles across Engineering, Product, Support, IT and Security.

The Impact you’ll have:

You will partner with hiring managers, business leaders, and HR business partners, to set and drive strategy, goals, and process for their searches. You will support all aspects of the search process ranging from preparation for client meetings, including market research and drafting specifications; developing search strategies; identifying, researching, and contacting prospective candidates; creating status reports and candidate assessments and leading weekly status calls on search progress. 

Additionally, you will be responsible for:

• Extensive research effort to map our markets and generate candidate names and target profiles for a high volume of searches
• Creating robust search strategies that will attract the best and brightest candidates while ensuring our commitment to diversifying our global workforce
• Calibrating and fine-tuning candidate profiles with hiring managers
• Gaining trust of prospective candidates and developing them into active candidates
• Upholding DB’s hiring bar through rigorous screening, assessment and reference checks
• Continually contributing to the knowledge base of the group by providing education on industries and market conditions
• Proactively building out talent networks across diverse functions/industries and tapping knowledgeable industry sources to help develop a competitive advantage
• Leading client update meetings and leverage data to advance search progress
• Conducting pre-screen interviews and participating in debrief/hiring conversations

What we’re looking for:

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in a highly professional business environment
• 6+ years of extensive Technical sourcing experience ; sourcing for engineering, Product, customer support, IT and security profiles at multiple levels
• A proven track record of being scrappy and able to fulfill the searches in a timely manner
• Highly developed conceptual skills - able to synthesize information quickly, understand various industries and functions, and be able to present material in an organized, concise, and clear manner
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to effectively prioritize projects and deliverables
• Experience managing a demanding workload, balancing multiple tasks, and switching gears while maintaining priorities
• Ability/agility to work with a number of constituencies on simultaneous projects
• Demonstrable initiative and resourcefulness
• Ability to develop well-planned strategies and achieve goals within tight timelines
• Experience using technology competently in a business setting