Strategic Sourcing Lead – Fulfillment
Job description
A Strategic Sourcing Lead role at Appen, leading a new global sourcing hub that finds specialized or hard-to-reach contributors for complex AI projects across domains such as translation, legal, medical, scientific, and technical fields. The role sits within Fulfillment and combines team building, sourcing strategy, and AI-enabled workflows.
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
- Partner with Recruitment and Delivery to assess requirements, sourcing feasibility, and project needs
- Build relationships with production stakeholders and communicate risks, timelines, and expectations
- Use sourcing and conversion data to identify bottlenecks, test approaches, and improve funnel performance
- Embed AI and automation into sourcing workflows to improve research, outreach, analysis, efficiency, and scalability
- Define how the hub operates and develop the team
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in sourcing, recruitment, talent acquisition, or a related field
- Experience leading or mentoring sourcing teams in a fast-paced environment
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills across teams
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data to guide sourcing decisions
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
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
- Flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team
- Supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to build capability over time
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About Appen
Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. It specialises in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Its 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
- 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
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Excellence
- Curiosity
- Accountability
- Humility over ego