The Role
Bobyard just doubled the team and we're doing it again. Most sourcers send volume. You won't. You'll build systems that surface the right engineers, designers, and operators — people who are exceptional but not broadcasting it — and get them into conversations before they're actively looking. This role is ideal for someone who treats sourcing as applied research — not spray-and-pray outreach.
What You'll Do
- Own top-of-funnel.
- Build and manage candidate pipelines across all roles: engineers, product, design, go-to-market.
- Define what "qualified" means before a single message goes out.
- Source proactively. GitHub, LinkedIn, research corpora, niche communities, referral networks.
- Find people who aren't on the market yet.
- Write outreach that converts.
- Craft messaging that is precise, respectful, and relevant.
- No generic templates.
- Every message earns a reply or teaches you something.
- Build the research layer.
- Compile structured candidate profiles — background, signal, fit hypothesis — so the hiring team can move fast with context.
- Instrument the funnel.
- Track source quality, response rates, and pipeline health.
- Surface what's working and kill what isn't. Partner with the Talent Engineer.
- Feed signal into automation workflows.
- Help identify where manual work can be systematized without losing quality.
- Represent Bobyard well.
- Every candidate touchpoint is a brand moment.
- You're often the first impression of who we are and why this company matters.
- Desired experience 2–4 years of sourcing or recruiting experience, ideally for technical roles at an early-stage startup Skilled at reading a resume, a GitHub profile, or a LinkedIn and quickly forming a fit hypothesis Strong writer — your outreach gets replies because it's thoughtful, not because it's volume Comfortable operating without a full playbook.
- You figure it out, then document it Data-literate: you track your pipeline, know your conversion rates, and use that to improve Familiar with ATS tools (Ashby preferred) and LinkedIn Recruiter Bonus: exposure to construction, trades, or technical industries Why Bobyard Shape the sourcing function from zero.
- Work directly within a high growth company working with incredible hiring leaders — short feedback loops, high ownership.
- Competitive base with meaningful equity.
- Full-time, in-person in San Francisco.
- We value learning rate and judgment over pedigree.
- If you find great people for hard-to-fill roles, let's talk.
- Comp Philosophy We structure compensation to be simple: cash for stability, variable for performance, equity for ownership . Everything ties directly to what you ship and the impact you drive .
