Ciena

Lead, Talent Sourcing

Ciena

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: India

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own and execute a requisition load (approximately 60 –70% capacity), focused on senior, niche, and business-critical roles globally.
  • Deliver high-quality, diverse pipelines for hard-to-fill roles through targeted research, market mapping, and proactive engagement.
  • Partner with Recruiters and TA leaders to understand demand, advise on talent availability, challenge hiring profiles, and influence sourcing strategy and channel mix.
  • Design, test, and refine sourcing strategies, playbooks, and market maps to enable consistent, high-quality sourcing outcomes.
  • Lead large-scale, multi-region sourcing projects and proactive pipeline initiatives (e.g. future skills and emerging technology talent pools), ensuring both ready-now and ready-later talent.
  • Own global standards for candidate research, prospecting, and engagement quality, including outreach personalisation, follow-up cadences, talent pooling, and silver-medalist re-engagement.
  • Lead the global sourcing community by running weekly sourcing forums, sharing best practices, reviewing campaign performance, and piloting new tools, channels, and outreach techniques.
  • Act as functional craft lead for Sourcers, providing day-to-day guidance on search strategy, messaging, prospect prioritisation, tooling, and data hygiene.
  • Monitor and report sourcing funnel metrics (response rates, conversion, diversity mix, source effectiveness) and translate insights into experiments, training, and process improvements.
  • Ensure high data integrity across ATS and CRM systems, including tagging, status management, and documentation of talent insights for future hiring.
  • Partner with Employer Brand and Marketing (where applicable) on targeted sourcing campaigns, events, and content for priority talent markets.
  • Champion inclusive sourcing practices and proactively build diverse slates and succession pipelines for critical roles.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Significant experience as a Senior Sourcer (or equivalent) within an in-house TA team, with a strong track record filling senior and hard-to-fill roles across multiple regions.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in Boolean search, market and org-chart mapping, talent intelligence, and multi-channel sourcing (LinkedIn, GitHub, niche boards, communities, referrals, events).
  • Strong business acumen, with the ability to partner with senior stakeholders and advise on market realities, trade-offs, and sourcing focus.
  • Proven ability to influence, coach, and mentor peers, and to lead communities of practice without formal people management authority.
  • Data-driven mindset with experience interpreting funnel metrics, running experiments or A/B testing, and presenting clear, actionable insights.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including crafting compelling outreach and translating complex market insights into practical recommendations.
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