Turn your hiring plan into candidate conversations.
When the team needs to grow, hiring work can take over your week. Open Source Talent helps you find candidates and keep searches moving while your leaders stay focused on the business.
Recruiting for Series B to E startups
You raised the funding. Now you need the engineers.
For founders and people leaders at Series B to E technology companies. Get recruiting help when the hiring plan grows faster than your team can manage.
Built for
Add support where the work is piling up.
If your recruiters need candidates, start with candidate sourcing. If you need help managing the process, choose full-cycle recruiting.
Ways to work together
Two ways to work with us.
01
Candidate sourcing
We find and engage candidates for your open roles. We can also handle screening and first interviews, depending on what your team needs. Your team takes the process forward from the agreed handoff.
For teams that need more qualified candidates to interview
02
Full-cycle recruiting
We run the hiring process with you, from finding candidates to the signed offer. We work alongside your hiring managers and internal recruiting team, join your team meetings, and stay with the process until the hire is done.
Need help with one critical role or several hires? Both options can fit. We’ll agree on who owns each step with your team and adjust the support as your hiring changes.
Your questions, answered.
Do you only work with San Diego startups?
Open Source Talent is based in San Diego and supports technology companies nationwide.
Can you work with our existing recruiting team?
Yes. We can find and screen candidates for your team or take on more of the hiring process as needed.
Who you will work with
Meet the team behind your next hire.
Our founder, Raj Chatkara, brings more than ten years of recruiting experience across his career, spanning enterprise companies and startups. That experience includes managing hiring from start to finish at Crusoe and Zoox, and recruiting engineers for Sony PlayStation and Intuit during his time at TEKsystems.
At Open Source Talent, our in-house team combines hands-on recruiting with close stakeholder partnership. We work with your hiring managers to clarify what each role needs and keep hiring decisions moving. We share market insights from candidate conversations so your team can make informed decisions about compensation and search priorities. You work directly with the people doing the work.
We’re based in San Diego and can meet local clients in person. We also support technology companies nationwide and join client team meetings as part of the work.
Let’s talk hiring
Tell us what you’re hiring for.
We’ll help you choose the right level of support and discuss when you could expect your first candidates.