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Talent Researcher

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Remote$140k - $180kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Talent Researcher to map talent markets, build pipelines, and surface proactive candidate pools to accelerate hiring across the business.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain talent maps across priority areas.
  • Research companies, teams, and talent pools to identify strong potential candidates across technical, business, and leadership roles.
  • Turn hiring needs into focused research strategies.
  • Partner closely with recruiters and hiring managers to understand what great looks like, define target profiles, and build actionable candidate pipelines.
  • Deliver market intelligence that shapes our approach.
  • Surface insights on talent availability, geographic markets, compensation, competitive companies, emerging talent pools, and other trends that help inform hiring strategy.
  • Build proactive pipelines.
  • Develop and maintain talent communities and evergreen pipelines for areas where we know we’ll continue to hire, allowing us to move quickly when new roles open.
  • Find talent others miss.
  • Go beyond traditional searches and obvious profiles to uncover high-potential candidates, adjacent talent pools, and new companies or markets we should be exploring.
  • Improve how we research and source.
  • Help refine our workflows, tools, documentation, and data so our research function becomes more scalable and effective over time.
  • Move fast while maintaining quality.
  • Quickly turn new hiring priorities into structured research, target lists, market insights, and candidate pipelines that help accelerate searches.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in talent research, executive search, sourcing, recruiting, or a similar role with a strong research component.
  • Experience building talent maps, target company lists, candidate pipelines, or market research across complex or competitive talent markets.
  • Strong sourcing and research skills, including experience with tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Talent Insights, ATS platforms, spreadsheets, and other research tools.
  • An analytical mindset. You don't just collect names — you look for patterns, understand markets, and turn information into actionable insights.
  • Strong written communication and the ability to present research in a clear, structured, and useful way.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and adapting quickly as hiring priorities change.
  • A proactive mindset and an interest in building pipelines before the need becomes urgent.

Skills

Required:Talent market researchTalent mappingSourcing tools
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Deepgram

Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding.

Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to understand human language. We give any developer access to the most advanced speech AI transcription and understanding with just an API call. Our models deliver the fastest, most accurate transcription alongside contextual features like summarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. Beyond that, developers can: 🔊 Process live-streaming or pre-recorded audio 🌎 Transcribe in dozens of languages ⚙️ Train custom models for unique use cases 🔑 Access deep NLU with a unified API 💻 Build in any programming language with our SDKs ✅ Deploy on-prem or on DG’s managed cloud 📈 Get scalable GPU infra for training and inference Deepgram is a proud NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company, and we recently completed a $72M Series B to define the future of AI Speech Understanding, making us the most-funded speech AI company at its stage.

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