About the Position

Talent Sourcer (US & EU Markets) | A-Players

Empower world-changing startups. Join us to build teams that drive impact, innovation, and your own career growth in 2026🚀

Remote | Full-time | English B2+ | Base + Commission

This is not a classic sourcing role.

As a Talent Sourcer at A-Players, you’re not “supporting recruiters” or sending generic outreach. You are a strategic researcher and signal-finder who operates in an AI-native way, using modern tools to research, map markets, and identify real A-Players who are rarely actively looking and hard to spot.

You’ll work closely with Talent Partners and clients, dive deep into each role and company context, and own sourcing strategy end-to-end.

Responsibilities

Sourcing strategy
- Deeply understand the client’s product, culture, and hiring goals
- Build sourcing hypotheses: where A-Players are likely to be, and why
- Identify non-obvious talent pools, companies, and career patterns
High-signal candidate identification
- Use LinkedIn, Boolean search, GitHub, referrals, and creative sourcing methods
- Apply the A-Players sourcing framework to assess signal vs noise
- Prioritize quality over volume
Personalized outreach
- Craft thoughtful, human, highly personalized messages
- Tailor outreach based on a candidate’s background, motivations, and career trajectory
- Continuously iterate messaging based on response quality, not just response rate
Collaboration with Talent Partners and clients
- Work as a true partner to Talent Partners on each search
- Share insights on candidate motivations, market signals, and role positioning
- Join interviews or client calls when helpful (optional, but encouraged)
Process & craft improvement
- Contribute to improving our sourcing playbooks, scripts, and tooling
- Share learnings about market shifts, hiring bars, and emerging talent hubs
- Bring ideas on how sourcing can create more leverage for the business

Requirements

Strong written English (Upper-Intermediate or higher)
Experience with LinkedIn, Boolean search, and modern sourcing tools
Full-time availability (not a freelance or side role)

Markets & Searches

Clients:
- ~60% US
- ~35% Europe
- ~5% Ukraine (impact-driven companies)
Search focus:
- Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Leadership roles
- Senior and hard-to-hire profiles
- US and EU markets primarily

Recent closed/active searches include:

VP of Marketing (Growth & AI) (US)
AI Engineer (US & EU)
Founding Design Engineer (EU)
Product Designer (EU)
Director of Lead Generation (US)
Customer Success Manager (CSM) (US)
VC Analyst (US & EU)
CX Director (UA)
Senior Full-Stack Engineer (US & EU)
Lead Backend Engineer (UA)

About the Company

A-Players is a US-based recruiting company with a Ukrainian core team. We work exclusively with impact-driven tech startups and VCs in the US and Europe - from early-stage, YC-backed teams to post-Series A companies scaling their leadership and core functions.

We don’t operate as a traditional agency.

We embed deeply into our clients’ teams, work on full exclusivity, join weekly syncs, help founders shape hiring strategy, and own searches end-to-end.

What Makes A-Players Different

Sourcing is treated as a strategic function, not a support task
High hiring bar - both for candidates and for ourselves
Real collaboration with Talent Partners and founders
Transparency around business numbers and decision-making
A culture built on Excellence and Empathy

Hiring Process

Intro / pre-screen call
Deep-dive interview
Call with our Founder
Call with our Co-Founder
Final culture-fit conversation

Ready to Join?

If you’re excited by ownership, complexity, and building something meaningful - we’d love to meet you.

Apply or reach out, and let’s start with a conversation.

Department: Tech

Remote status: Fully Remote

Employment type: Full-time

Contact: Violetta, Talent Partner – Non-tech

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