# Executive Sourcer, Business

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco; Remote - US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $192K – $295K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

**Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/5e33cf22-8b3f-4cbc-b827-1863d79da073
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_cb89019c-879

## Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Executive Sourcer who combines exceptional research capability, strategic insight, and relationship-building skills. As an Executive Sourcer, you will play a critical role in driving top-of-funnel strategy, proactive outreach, market mapping, and talent intelligence for our highest-impact non-technical leadership hires.

Key responsibilities include:

- Lead research, market mapping, and top-of-funnel strategy across a portfolio of non-technical executive searches

- Build and deliver diverse, high-caliber talent pipelines, proactively identifying exceptional leaders through deep market research, outbound outreach, and ongoing relationship development

- Partner with Executive Recruiters and hiring leaders to refine role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, and search strategies

- Conduct thoughtful first-touch candidate engagement, building trust, assessing interest, and positioning OpenAI's mission and opportunities with clarity

Requirements include:

- 5–10+ years of sourcing or research experience, ideally in executive search or high-growth tech

- Proven ability to run research-heavy, zero→one searches and produce strong, targeted pipelines for senior-level roles

- Deep expertise in search strategy, including talent mapping, competitive research, and proactive outreach

- Exceptional written communication,able to craft compelling outreach, talent insights, and search briefs

Nice to have:

- Experience supporting non-technical (GTM, Operations, Marketing, Finance, etc.) leadership roles

- Background at an executive search firm or internal exec recruiting team

- Experience engaging candidates at VP, SVP, C-suite, or founder level

- Global research experience or exposure to international markets

## Skills

### Required
- research
- market mapping
- top-of-funnel strategy
- proactive outreach
- talent intelligence
- search strategy
- talent mapping
- competitive research
- communication

### Nice to have
- executive search
- high-growth tech
- outbound outreach
- relationship development