Strategic Sourcer – Fulfillment

About the role

As a Strategic Sourcer, you will join a global hub focused on identifying specialized talent for complex AI projects across diverse domains. You will partner with recruitment and delivery teams to design creative sourcing strategies, manage high-volume needs, and utilize data-driven insights to optimize search performance. This role leverages AI and automation to enhance outreach and contributor engagement in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute creative sourcing strategies for specialized, hard-to-reach, and high-volume needs.
• Explore communities, networks, referrals, and non-traditional channels to find and engage contributors.
• Translate project requirements into targeted searches and adapt strategies as needs evolve.
• Communicate sourcing progress, challenges, and market feedback, and flag potential risks.
• Use sourcing and conversion data to identify bottlenecks, test approaches, and improve performance.
• Use AI and automation in research, outreach, analysis, and sourcing workflows to improve efficiency.

Required skills

• Sourcing
• Recruitment
• Talent acquisition
• Research
• Problem-solving
• Data analysis
• Funnel metrics

Nice to have

• AI project sourcing
• Data project sourcing
• Crowdsourcing
• Linguist sourcing
• Translator sourcing
• Global team collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Equivalent practical experience

About the Company

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years, specializing in human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Their platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors support model pre-training, safety, and multilingual global expansion.