The Trade Desk - Senior Technical Sourcer, APAC (Contractor)

• Develop and own sourcing strategies across APAC, tailoring your approach by role, level, location, and skill set for Engineering and Applied Science hiring. • Build and manage healthy talent pipelines, from market mapping and prospect identification through engagement, initial qualification, and handoff to recruiting partners. Balance immediate hiring needs with long-term relationships for critical talent areas. • Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to define target profiles, calibrate candidate quality, agree priorities, and establish clear handoffs and feedback loops. • Engage hard-to-reach technical talent through thoughtful, personalized outreach. Translate The Trade Desk’s engineering challenges, business impact, and culture into compelling conversations grounded in candidates’ interests and motivations. • Use funnel data to improve results, tracking outreach response, candidate engagement, qualification, and downstream conversion. Diagnose where pipelines lose momentum and recommend practical changes to targeting, messaging, or assessment alignment. • Bring actionable APAC market intelligence to hiring discussions, including talent availability, competitor activity, candidate compensation expectations, and location-specific dynamics. Use evidence to inform realistic expectations and hiring trade-offs. • Explore and apply AI-assisted research, automation, and emerging sourcing tools to improve research depth, relevance, and efficiency, while maintaining accuracy, candidate privacy, and personalized engagement. • Diversify sourcing channels through technical communities, referrals, open-source projects, research networks, and other relevant talent ecosystems. • Communicate pipeline health and priorities clearly, sharing progress, risks, market feedback, and recommended next steps as hiring needs evolve. • Maintain accurate candidate and sourcing data in ATS and CRM systems, supporting a coordinated candidate experience and reliable reporting. Share successful approaches and market knowledge with the wider TA team.