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# Technical Sourcer at Discord

- **Company:** Discord
- **Location:** San Francisco Bay Area OR, United States
- **Compensation:** $132k–$149k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8822683002

## Job description

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games.

This position is temporary and US-based only.

Discord's Talent team is seeking a strategic Technical Sourcer to support our most complex engineering roles by activating passive candidates. In this role, you'll partner directly with engineering leadership to conduct market intelligence, size talent pools, and execute sophisticated sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical roles.

You'll be responsible for translating technical requirements into targeted sourcing approaches, building robust candidate pipelines through deep market analysis and personalized outreach, and serving as a trusted advisor on talent availability and competitive dynamics. Success in this role requires a consultative mindset, strong analytical capabilities, and proven expertise in activating passive talent in highly constrained technical markets.

Key Responsibilities:

- Partner strategically with hiring managers and technical leaders to deeply understand role requirements, technical stack nuances, team dynamics, and ideal candidate profiles, translating technical requirements into effective sourcing criteria.
- Conduct comprehensive total addressable market (TAM) research to size talent pools, identify hiring feasibility, and inform realistic hiring timelines for niche technical roles.
- Develop detailed job mapping strategies by analyzing competitor organizations, identifying companies with relevant technical stacks, and creating target account lists that align with Discord's technical architecture and culture
- Build and execute customized sourcing strategies for each requisition, leveraging boolean search, x-ray techniques, github sourcing, and competitive intelligence to uncover and activate passive talent in highly specialized areas
- Identify and engage talent in their respective fields, and partner with our recruiters and technical leaders to scale and optimize our teams
- Craft highly personalized, compelling outreach campaigns that articulate Discord's unique technical challenges and demonstrate genuine understanding of candidates' work, engaging even the most passive senior, staff-level engineers, and engineering leaders.
- Own candidate experience from initial outreach through recruiter handoff, maintaining consistent communication, setting clear expectations, and ensuring smooth transitions that reflect Discord's candidate-first approach.
- Represent Discord's brand at company events, technical conferences, meetups, and industry events, building long-term relationships and nurturing talent communities for sustained pipeline development
- Practice strong data hygiene across our recruiting systems and maintain rigorous pipeline health metrics, including interested response rates, activation rate, next step pass-through rate, and source effectiveness, using data to continuously optimize sourcing approaches and demonstrate ROI.

Must Haves:

- 5+ years of experience in technical sourcing or recruitment, preferably in a high-growth tech company environment, on job profiles such as distributed systems and product engineering.
- Demonstrated success hiring senior, staff, principal-level engineers, and engineering managers in competitive, constrained talent markets
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand complex engineering roles, evaluate technical qualifications, and effectively translate technical requirements into sourcing signals and candidate evaluation criteria
- Expert-level proficiency with boolean search techniques and advanced sourcing methods, including x-ray searches, GitHub/repository mining, conference/publication tracking, and creative talent identification strategies beyond traditional platforms
- Proficiency with modern sourcing tools and platforms, including SeekOut, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, and applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse), and experimenting with AI tooling.
- Expertise in market mapping and talent pool analysis, with the ability to size addressable markets, assess hiring feasibility, identify capability gaps, and provide data-backed insights on competitive talent dynamics to inform hiring strategy.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to build trust and influence technical hiring managers, interview teams, and senior leadership through structured insights and consultative partnership
- Strong pipeline management capabilities with the ability to rigorously prioritize and balance multiple requisitions at varying stages simultaneously in fast-paced, dynamic environments
- A proven track record of successfully sourcing candidates in areas such as developers, full-stack engineers, and feature development
- Data-driven mindset with ability to track, analyze, and report on key sourcing metrics (interested response rates, activation rates, conversion ratios, source effectiveness) and translate insights into actionable strategy adjustments

The base salary range for this temporary full-time position is listed below. This position will also be eligible for benefits. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; basic life and disability insurance; a 401(k) plan (after a service period); and paid time off. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include benefits. Applications for this role are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Base Salary $132,000—$148,500 USD

Why Discord?

Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming. We're a multiplatform, multigenerational and multiplayer platform that helps people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests, and helps developers build and grow their businesses. We believe games give us a way to have fun with our favorite people, whether listening to music together or grinding in competitive matches for diamond rank. Join us in our mission! Your future is just a click away!

Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process. We want you to feel set up for success, so if you are in need of reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.

Please see our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Policy for details regarding Discord’s collection and usage of personal information relating to the application and recruitment process by clicking [HERE.](https://discord.com/terms/applicant-candidate-privacy-policy)

## About Discord

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Discord is a voice, video, and text communication platform designed to help friends and communities hang out and play games together.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not disclosed in available sources)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Gaming communication and social platform
- **Target customers**: B2C – gamers, gaming communities, and friends; also B2B via in-game chat integrations
- **Mission or purpose**: To be the best place to talk before, during, and after playing games, enabling meaningful connections around the joy of gaming.

## Products & Services
- **Discord Platform (Voice, Video, Text)**: A free-to-use app for 1:1 DMs, group DMs, and Servers where users can communicate in real-time. Features include high-quality streaming, in-game overlay, Soundboard, Voice Messages, and Activities (playable games inside Discord).
- **Discord API & SDK**: Allows developers to build bots, integrations, and in-game chat powered by Discord (e.g., used by Pax Dei and Omega Strikers).
- **Discord App Launcher**: Lets users enjoy Activities and apps directly within Discord.
- **Rich Presence API**: Enables games to display player activity on Discord profiles.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: 90+ million daily active users (DAU) as of Q4 2025 (internal data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not detailed in provided sources; known from general knowledge includes Greylock, Index Ventures, Accel, and Tencent (but not cited here)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 90%+ of Discord users play video games; ~40% start a game within an hour of using Discord.
  - Expanded in-game voice chat support to PS5 and PC.
  - Launched in-game overlay, Soundboard, Voice Messages, and Activities.
  - New CEO Humam Sakhnini (former Activision Blizzard/King executive) appointed in Spring 2025.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Gaming-first focus**: Deep integration with gaming ecosystems (console, PC, mobile) and features built specifically for gamers.
- **Massive, engaged user base**: 90M+ DAU with high daily activity and strong community stickiness.
- **Platform lock-in**: Users build social networks within Discord servers, making switching costly.
- **Developer ecosystem**: API and SDK power hundreds of thousands of apps and in-game chat integrations.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue making Discord the most reliable and feature-rich platform for gaming conversations.
- Expand in-game voice/text chat partnerships (e.g., Pax Dei, Omega Strikers).
- Invest in Safety platform (dedicated engineering teams, Safety Processing, Enforce, Experience).
- Grow revenue through monetization features (Nitro subscriptions, game sales, and ads – hinted by job postings for "Revenue" teams).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes seven principles: Strive for Excellence, Cultivate Belonging, Deliver for Customers, Embrace the Brutal Facts, Progress Over Perfection, Debate/Decide/Commit, Surprise & Delight. Employees use Discord daily and share a passion for gaming.
- **Work model**: Flexible – in-person at San Francisco HQ, remote, or hybrid. "Great work can happen anywhere."
- **Benefits** (US full-time):
  - Competitive compensation with equity, 401k matching.
  - 4 weeks PTO, 16 paid holidays (including winter break), flexible sick time (including mental health days).
  - 12+ weeks parental leave, fertility/adoption/surrogacy benefits.
  - Medical, dental, vision, reproductive, gender-affirming, and mental healthcare.
  - $375 quarterly wellness stipend.
  - $1,000/year donation matching, 2 volunteer days off.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong focus on data, safety, and infrastructure; managers go through leadership training; many open roles in Core Tech, Safety, Data, and Machine Learning.

## Sources
1. [discord.com/careers](https://discord.com/careers)
2. [discord.com/company](https://discord.com/company)
3. [discord.com/blog/the-seven-principles-of-working-at-discord](https://discord.com/blog/the-seven-principles-of-working-at-discord)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8350416002](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/discord/jobs/8350416002)

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