Independent Talent Sourcer – Contract, Contingent

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🕒 October 29

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🎯 Recruiter

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Pensive

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2 - 10 employees

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $6.8M Seed Round on 2026-02

Education • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Pensive is an AI-driven grading and tutoring platform designed for higher education. It provides instructor-led AI grading and personalized feedback for student work, and offers tutoring support tailored to college and university courses. The platform aims to streamline grading workflows for instructors while delivering consistent, customized feedback and tutoring to students.

📋 Description

• Find candidates open to moving into roles briefed by Builders • Choose which roles, companies, and candidate archetypes to source • Refer candidates to Builders through a personal tracked referral link • Help candidates sign up to Builders • Builders screens referred candidates, introduces them to companies, and manages the process through the offer stage • Conduct one-to-one outreach independently • Obtain approval for sequenced, bulk, or automated outreach and its copy • Avoid publicizing role or company information without prior approval • Avoid sourcing candidates from Builders' client companies • Ask candidates only whether they are authorized to work in the US and whether they need sponsorship now or in the future • Write original outreach using role briefs without forwarding briefs to candidates • Monitor candidate stages and payout status through the platform

🎯 Requirements

• Ability to find strong candidates for early-stage (seed through Series B) AI startups • Talent sourcing experience, especially for engineering roles; product, design, growth, go-to-market, and operations sourcing may also be relevant • Legal authorization to work in the US • Ability to answer whether US work sponsorship is needed now or in the future • Existing network in AI is a strong fit • Existing outbound recruiting experience is advantageous • Ability to build a candidate target list independently • Ability to follow outreach, confidentiality, restricted-company, client-company, work-authorization, and brief-handling guidelines • LinkedIn profile and resume required for application

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Flexible workload with no minimum hours or quotas • No exclusivity requirement; can work with other agencies and place people directly • No non-solicit restriction • Flat fee for every person who signs up through the referral link and meets with a company, paid monthly • Share of the placement fee when a referred candidate is hired, paid after the guarantee period and client payment; no clawbacks afterward • Potential path to the Independent Talent Sourcer (Contract, Hourly) role with hourly pay plus performance bonuses • Platform visibility into referred candidates, candidate stages, and payout status • Continued access to payout status and candidate stages after ending the relationship • Freedom to use existing sourcing tools or automation • Access to named companies and roles with briefs covering company details, compensation, desired profiles, and sometimes prior rejected profiles

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