Strategic Sourcer – Fulfillment - Mexico
Job description
A Strategic Sourcer role within a new global sourcing hub at Appen, focused on finding contributors for complex AI projects requiring specialized or hard-to-reach talent across domains such as translation, legal, medical, scientific, and technical fields. The role is hands-on and strategic within Fulfillment, partnering with the Sourcing Lead, Recruitment, and Delivery.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Mexico
What you'll do
- Design and execute creative sourcing strategies for specialized, hard-to-reach, and high-volume needs
- Explore communities, networks, referrals, and non-traditional channels to find and engage contributors
- Translate project requirements into targeted searches and adapt strategies as needs evolve
- Communicate sourcing progress, challenges, and market feedback, and flag potential risks
- Use sourcing and conversion data to identify bottlenecks, test approaches, and improve performance
- Use AI and automation in research, outreach, analysis, and sourcing workflows to improve efficiency
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of experience in sourcing, recruitment, talent acquisition, or a related field
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Strong research and problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop new approaches when traditional sourcing methods are not effective
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Experience using sourcing data and funnel metrics to inform decisions and improve results
Nice to have
- Experience sourcing for AI, data, or crowdsourcing projects
- Experience sourcing linguists, translators, or other language profiles across markets
- Experience working with global or distributed teams across time zones
- Flexibility to work regular U.S. hours or provide U.S. overlap when working in a different time zone
Your team
Fulfillment
A new global sourcing hub focused on finding the right contributors for complex AI projects
Benefits
- Culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence
- Work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies
- Culture that values humility over ego
- Flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team
- Supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time
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About Appen
Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.
Key facts
- more than 1 million contributors
- AI training data
- Leader in AI training data for over 30 years
- Specialises in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition
- AI assisted data annotation platform
- Global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries
- Supports model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion
What they value
- Curiosity
- Accountability
- Commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions
- Humility over ego