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Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview: Responsibilities:

• Identifies differentiated and alternative types of talent (e.g., compete, diverse, nontraditional) that may not be typically considered, and provides recommendations to businesses or entities.
• Identifies current and future talent needs through opportunistic exploration and analysis of market demands, and helps consult leaders to create new roles that bring in desired talent.

• Elicits interest in active and potential candidates by storytelling, and contributes to the development of new stories. Spreads awareness through community outreach events and strategic networking.
• Implements best practices on sourcing, recruiting, and/or closing techniques and stories. Tracks candidate activity and shares with internal stakeholders.
• Informs key points of GitHub's unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors.

• Uses an understanding of talent markets and candidate profiles, as well as growing relationships with new talent pools and communities with future potential, to identify and engage candidates for immediate and future talent needs.
• May help develop strategies to generate differentiated talent in emerging roles or highly competitive talent pools to meet long-term business needs. Candidate Assessment & Screening.
• Executes initial screening and assessing of candidates. Independently qualifies talent pool by assessing relevant factors such as ability to hire, relocation considerations, immigration, and compensation

• Maintains current documentation on candidates’ qualifications and status in the appropriate recruiting or tracking system, within compliance guidelines (e.g., Office of Federal Compliance Programs, General Data Protection Regulation)
• Educates and captures relevant data and performs analyses to inform meaningful insights.

• Analyzes and interprets external market data, and provides market analysis and data insights to the business to inform hiring plans and implement talent acquisition strategies and initiatives (location, talent availability, compensation, diversity, etc.).
• Crafts and delivers tailored sourcing strategy using market analysis and data insights.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience in talent acquisition, human resources, or related field
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, Liberal Arts, Computer
    Science, Engineering, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of sourcing experience within a high-volume, fast-paced technology organization supporting multiple concurrent roles and stakeholders.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and advanced Boolean search techniques to identify and engage talent.
• Experience developing and executing sourcing strategies to produce high-quality pipelines of passive talent using an ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, and creative sourcing channels (e.g., GitHub, technical communities, forums, and networks).

• Curiosity and applied use of AI and emerging tools to enhance sourcing effectiveness, such as improving search precision, identifying talent signals, or scaling personalization—paired with a willingness to share insights and evolve team practices.
• Experience sourcing top talent for roles across multiple countries, navigating global hiring processes and compliance..
• Fluency in using data and signals to inform sourcing strategy, including interpreting talent market trends, outreach performance, and candidate behavior to continuously improve pipeline quality.
• Exceptional written communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to craft highly personalized, compelling outreach that resonates with technical audiences and drives strong engagement and response rates.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders across distributed, global teams and time zones to drive alignment and hiring outcomes.
• Experience/Familiarity with iCIMS ATS.

Compensation Range: The base salary range for this job is USD $68,200.00 - USD $181,000.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
GitHub Leadership Principles:

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are: GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
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