Strategic Sourcing Lead – Fulfillment

About the Role
As a Strategic Sourcer, you’ll be part of a new global sourcing hub focused on finding the right contributors for complex AI projects that require specialized or hard-to-reach talent across a wide range of domains, from translation and localization to legal, medical, scientific, and technical fields.
This is a strategic, hands-on role within Fulfillment. You will partner closely with the Sourcing Lead, Recruitment, and Delivery to turn complex requirements into effective searches, find creative ways to reach the right contributors, and rapidly scale sourcing efforts when projects require high volumes. The team will work in a data-informed and AI-enabled environment, using technology to enhance human judgment, creativity, and connection.
Your Impact
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 You Bring
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 Haves
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.

Why You'll Love Working Here
At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.
You'll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You'll have the 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.
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.