Talent Acquisition & Sourcing Specialist
People & HR
Canada · Buenos Aires, Argentina · Jakarta, Indonesia · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Cape Town, South Africa · Budapest, Hungary · Lisbon, Portugal
Posted on Aug 20, 2026
Talent Acquisition & Sourcing Specialist
Manila • Ho Chi Minh • Lisbon • Buenos Aires • Jakarta • Cape town • Budapest • Canada
HR
Remote
Full-time
Fireflies.ai is the leading AI teammate for meetings, trusted by over 20 million users across 500,000+ organisations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Fireflies captures meeting knowledge, automates repetitive tasks, and helps teams become more productive before, during, and after meetings.
Fireflies has achieved unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion and was recognised by Ramp as the 6th most popular AI platform.
We're looking for a creative Talent Acquisition & Sourcing Specialist who loves hunting exceptional talent and can independently build pipelines across technical and non-technical roles. This is a high-ownership, sourcing-heavy role. You'll combine creative sourcing, strong recruiting judgment, data, AI, outreach, recruitment coordination and automation to help Fireflies build a world-class global team.
What You'll Do:
- Source technical and non-technical talent globally.
- Build pipelines for niche and high-priority roles.
- Use LinkedIn, GitHub, X-Ray search, communities, referrals, and alternative sourcing channels.
- Partner with hiring managers from intake through offer closure.
- Run personalised outbound sourcing campaigns.
- Use AI and automation to improve sourcing, research, outreach, and recruiting operations.
- Track recruiting funnels and identify areas for improvement.
- Manage multiple hiring priorities while maintaining speed and candidate quality.
Roles You'll Hire:
- Technical: Full-Stack, Backend, AI/ML, Infrastructure, Database, Senior/Staff Engineers and Engineering Leaders.You should be comfortable understanding technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis.
- Non-Technical: Product Marketing, Growth, Performance Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Product, Operations and Design.
We want recruiters who evaluate real candidate impact and evidence—not simply titles and keywords.
What You Need:
- 2–5 years of recruiting/sourcing experience.
- Strong technical sourcing capability.
- Experience hiring both technical and non-technical talent.
- Strong Boolean and X-Ray search skills.
- Experience sourcing through GitHub and channels beyond LinkedIn.
- Experience engaging passive candidates and running outbound campaigns.
- Strong communication, research, and analytical skills.
- Ability to manage multiple hiring priorities independently.
- Comfortable using AI and recruiting automation tools.
- Data-driven and highly accountable.
- Experience working with global/remote teams.
An engineering or technical educational background is preferred, but strong technical recruiting expertise can compensate for formal credentials.
Qualities We Look For:
- Strong sourcing and talent-hunting mindset.
- High ownership and accountability.
- Fast learner with strong intellectual curiosity.
- Data-driven and results-oriented.
- Comfortable challenging assumptions.
- Strong remote communication.
- Uses AI and automation to increase productivity.
- Prioritises candidate quality over sourcing volume.
Values that are important to us:
- You should be a great communicator and culture maintainer.
- Take a look at our culture document
- You're data-driven and customer-focused
- You value fast & incremental engineering cycles
- You maintain design excellence and minimize complexity
- You measure your results & automate when possible
- You get 10% better at something every week
- You have an internal compass and take accountability & initiative
- We value overcommunication, candid feedback and a results-driven culture
Perks & Benefits:
- Competitive compensation
- Remote work
- Flexible working hours
- Paid time off and flexible leave
- High ownership and rapid growth
- International company offsites
- Tech reimbursements
- LGBTQ+ friendly workplace
About Us:
At Fireflies.ai, we're transforming how teams interact with AI in their daily work.Backed by $19 million from investors including Canaan and Khosla Ventures, Fireflies is powered by a 100+ member global team across 20+ countries. We're building a global-first company centred around innovation, customer experience, ownership, and growth.
Fireflies.ai is an equal-opportunity employer. We value different perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences and make employment decisions based on role-relevant qualifications, skills, and performance.
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Req ID: R59