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owl.co

Senior Technical Sourcer (Contract)

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Support talent acquisition by building pipelines for specialized engineering and data roles using advanced sourcing strategies in a fast-paced environment.

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

  • 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.

Stakeholder Partnership

  • 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.

Process & Candidate Experience

  • 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.

Market Research

  • Map relevant talent pools, competitive landscapes, and emerging candidate sources.
  • Provide insights that inform hiring decisions and long-term workforce planning

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Full-time contract: 4 months (40 hours/week) with option to extend
  • Competitive compensation
  • Remote-first role with flexible working hours
  • Immediate start

Why Join Us

  • 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.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Remote-first role with flexible working hours
owl.co

We know, insurance may not seem like the most sexy of industries. However, insurance is a social good and affects nearly every facet of the daily lives of billions of people. Because of the scale, the challenges are enormous, complex, and complicated—those challenges require the very best engineering talent to create elegant solutions to address them.If you’re the kind of person who wants to use your talent to solve wicked-hard problems that affect billions of people all over the world, and do it in an ethical way that protects their rights and privacy, and do that working with a kick-ass team who wants to do the same, to be treated respectfully, have your voice heard, give balance to your life, find opportunities to grow, teach and lead, and have stability—drop us a line. We’re growing. Fast.Or you can use those mad skills to put mustaches on cats—just sayin’.Here are the team members we’re looking for:

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