About Handshake

Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today we power 25 million job seekers 1 million employers and 1600 educational institutions.

In 2025 we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations publish benchmarks and push the boundary of data. Weve grown from $0 to $1B run rate and pay $60M to over 30K individuals every month.

Why join Handshake now:

• 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 worlds 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

About the Role

Were seeking a driven Talent Sourcing Specialist 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 youll identify and engage top talent across diverse domains taking full ownership of your pipeline in a fast-paced goal-oriented environment.

• Own top-of-funnel sourcing 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 technical and STEM-background candidates.

• Provide market insights and strategic guidance leveraging your close partnership with the team to advise on whats working what isnt and broader market trends.

• Conduct initial candidate screens 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.

Desired Capabilities

• Experience: 24 years of recruiting or sourcing experience. We welcome both agency and in-house backgrounds particularly candidates interested in transitioning into a high-growth tech environment

• Sourcing Expertise: Proven ability to find and engage niche talent pools.

• Technical / Industry Knowledge: Experience sourcing candidates from specialized fields including STEM data or technical backgrounds

• Drive & Urgency: You thrive in fast-moving environments with shifting priorities and big goals.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to quickly build trust with both candidates and hiring managers.

• Metrics-Minded: You care about your numbers and use data to improve. Familiarity with tracking source conversion and grow metrics is a plus.

• Tools: Proficiency with ATS platforms (Ashby a plus) LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools with a strong ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies.

• Work Hours: Must be ok working PST hours.

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

Extra Credit

• 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

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