Director of Sourcing

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About the role...

Duolingo is seeking a Director of Sourcing to lead and evolve how we identify engage and build relationships with top talent. This role sits within Talent Acquisition and focuses on improving sourcing strategy and effectiveness elevating team capabilities and delivering strong pipelines against hiring priorities. You will partner closely with Recruiting leaders Hiring Managers and Function Leads to translate business needs into actionable sourcing strategies using data and market insights to drive continuous improvement.

You will...

• Develop and implement sourcing strategies across priority roles and functions ensuring consistent highquality pipelines aligned to hiring needs.
• Collaborate with recruiters and hiring managers to calibrate target profiles and translate hiring goals into actionable sourcing plans that complement broader recruiting strategies.
• Build and maintain proactive pipelines for highpriority and hard-tofill roles including structured approaches to candidate engagement and reengagement.
• Identify opportunities to improve tools workflows and processes within sourcing; test and implement new approaches that increase efficiency and candidate quality.
• Define and track key sourcing metrics (e.g. pipeline health conversion efficiency) using data and market insights to identify gaps adjust strategies and provide visibility into impact.
• Coach and support recruiters and sourcers on best practices to raise the bar on sourcing quality candidate engagement and market insights.
• Lead crossfunctional initiatives that reduce friction in the hiring funnel drive adoption of improvements and increase overall sourcing effectiveness.

You have...

• 10 years of experience in sourcing recruiting or talent acquisition within highgrowth or tech environments including 3 years managing people.
• A track record of solving complex recruiting challenges and leading initiatives from strategy through execution.
• Strong crossfunctional collaboration skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to use data and market insights to inform decisions and improve outcomes.
• Experience improving processes tools and ways of working within recruiting or sourcing organizations.
• Clear direct communication skills and sound judgment including navigating and delivering difficult messages when needed.
• Ability to work from or relocate to Pittsburgh PA or New York NY.

Exceptional candidates will have...

• Experience building structured talent communities and longterm engagement programs that convert to hires.
• Handson evaluation and rollout of sourcing technologies ATS/CRM integrations and workflow improvements.
• Demonstrated success scaling sourcing practices across a recruiting team or function.
• Advanced capability building for sourcers and recruiters (playbooks training rubrics) with measurable uplift in pipeline quality.
• Comfort operating at the L4 director scope: high autonomy domain leadership and crossfunctional influence within Talent Acquisition.

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