Talent Sourcing Specialist (Contract)

• Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel

• Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world's top educational institutions

• Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders

• Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue

to join our Handshake AI team partnering closely with the Growth team to own top-of-funnel recruiting. This is a high-volume, high-velocity role focused on sourcing and screening candidates for the Handshake AI Fellowship. Based in our San Francisco office, you'll identify and engage top talent across diverse domains, taking full ownership of your pipeline in a fast-paced, goal-oriented environment.

• Own

for the Growth team, partnering closely on role requirements, intake, and pipeline priorities.

• Source and engage passive talent through creative outreach, boolean search, research, and market mapping - with a focus on

.

• Provide

, leveraging your close partnership with the team to advise on what's working, what isn't, and broader market trends.

• Conduct

and manage handoffs to the project teams.

• Track and report recruiting metrics, ensuring data integrity in Ashby and other tools, and leverage insights to refine sourcing strategies and improve outcomes.

Must be ok working PST hours.

• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to help shape processes, not just follow them.

• Prior agency or executive search experience, especially in high-volume or hard-to-fill markets.

• Experience recruiting for go-to-market, sales, or growth-focused teams.

• If you are local to San Francisco, bonus points for willingness to come into the office

Explore our mission and values at joinhandshake.com/careers .