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Find the talent everyone else is missing.

Source Nerds blends recruitment strategy, talent sourcing and social influence to connect companies with the marketers, creatives and technical talent they actually need.

150 +

Marketers placed into

new roles

30k+

LinkedIn network reach

6

Creative industries covered

The Nerd Advantage

Recruiting that thinks more like research, less like sales.

Four habits that change how the right candidates actually hear about your role.

Services

A full talent stack — sourcing, marketing, and intelligence in one place.
 

Plug us in where you need us. Most clients start with one service and expand once they see how much of the funnel we actually own.

01 / Sourcing

Talent Sourcing

Targeted outbound sourcing, pipeline building, candidate mapping, and shortlist development for roles that internal teams can't crack.

  • Outbound search

  • Pipeline build

  • Candidate mapping

  • Shortlists

02 / Marketing

Recruitment Marketing

LinkedIn job amplification, campaign messaging, employer brand storytelling, and hiring content that travels.

  • LinkedIn amplification

  • Campaign copy

  • Employer brand

  • Hiring content

03 / Fractional

Fractional Recruiting

Hands-on support for founders and growing teams without a full internal recruiting function — embedded, flexible, senior.

  • Embedded support

  • Process design

  • Interview frameworks

  • Reporting

04 / Intelligence

Talent Intelligence

Market mapping, salary insights, candidate availability, and qualitative hiring feedback to sharpen every decision.

  • Market maps

  • Salary data

  • Availability

  • Hiring feedback

05 /

 

NetworkCreative & Marketing Network

Direct access to marketing, creative, animation, gaming, VFX, and production professionals who don't always show up in databases.

  • Marketing

  • Animation 

  • VFX

  • Gaming

  • Production

  • AI & Machine Learning

Our Process

Our Process

A four-step system, built to find people databases miss.

Clarity

01 step                                                                     1/4

We get inside the role. Market context, must-haves, what 'great' actually looks like, and what's been blocking the hire.

Map

02 step                                                                     2/4

We map where the right talent actually lives — companies, communities, conferences, side projects, and quiet networks.

Engage

03 step                                                                    3/4

We craft outreach and recruitment content that feels human, relevant, and worth replying to. No spray-and-pray.

Deliver

04 step                                                                    4/4

Qualified, interested candidates with full context, plus clear hiring insights you can use beyond this single role.

Industries

Where we go deep.

We don't pretend to recruit for everyone. These are the communities we live inside.

01

Marketing & Growth

​Heads of marketing, growth leads, lifecycle, brand, content, and performance specialists.

03

AI & Machine Learning

Machine Learning Engineer, AI Engineer, Data Scientist, AI Product Manager,  MLOps Engineer.

05

Animation, Gaming & VFX

Artists, technical directors, producers, and studio leadership across pipelines.

02

Creative & Content

Designers, art directors, copywriters, content strategists, and creative leadership.

04

Technology

Cyber security engineering, data engineer, and Dev-Ops, Cloud Engineer.

06

Media & Entertainment

Production, post, distribution, and the cross-functional talent that ties it together.

Testimonials 

Maira Mendoza, Director of Human Resources - Pipeline Studios 

Source Nerds was extremely helpful and professional. Sherry is a subject matter expert in the field of recruitment who was always attentive to our needs and was able to find highly qualified candidates for our very demanding productions. I also highly appreciated the thorough needs assessment and recommendations that Source Nerds provided to guide us in a cost efficient and effective manner in the process of staff planning, attraction, recruitment and contracting. I highly recommend Source Nerds for all things talent recruitment needs.

Maira Mendoza, Director of Human Resources - Pipeline Studios 

Contact

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