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We Believe Recruiting Can Become
A Company’s Superpower.

All too often, recruiting is viewed as a necessary evil. Companies need candidates but they don’t have time to find them and finding a reliable scalable solution is difficult. We operate differently, helping you develop a talent strategy while successfully filling the roles you need right now. Grow fast, scale seamlessly, and put a recruiting process in place that will be valuable for years to come.

Why work with us?

Our mission is to make recruiting successful and enjoyable. We want you to be proud of the team we’ve built together and the talent strategy we’ve put in place to help your company grow.

How we’re different

We’re transparent. No withholding names of candidates or keeping your name from them, and we hold weekly check-ins to keep you up on our progress.
Every candidate we source and qualify for your company is exclusively yours until one of you decides to pass on the opportunity.
We look for talent in many places. We’re not just pulling from resumes on LinkedIn, we’re always finding new talent and making connections when there’s a good fit.

We get things done

3-year average client relationship
We’ve helped hire people in 14 different countries
70% of roles we fill are technical hires
We average 10+ hires per client
It takes us about 10 weeks on average to fill a new role
16. The average number of candidates we submit per role

Meet The Team

We are creators, thinkers, data nerds, and people magnets, and we’re serious about delivering your talent pipeline.

Jessica Stielau
CEO

Vaghar Haghiri
VP of Operations

Jamie Ceglarz
Director of Growth

Jessica Stielau

CEO

Jessica Stielau is founder and CEO of The Sourcery. Putting her scientific background to perfect use, Jessica has been obsessed with improving recruitment work since she first joined the firm that preceded The Sourcery. Less than a year later, under her leadership and guidance, The Sourcery discovered its sweet spot: helping startups hire. The Sourcery’s team has now doubled while helping more than 250 companies hire hundreds of top candidates, many of whom have become hiring managers themselves.

Jessica graduated Magna Cum Laude from Colby College with a B.A in English and Environmental Policy, and she earned her M.S. in Climate Change and Marine Ecology from the University of Washington.

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Vaghar Haghiri

VP of Operations

Vaghar Haghiri is The Sourcery’s VP of Operations. As The Sourcery continues to grow rapidly, Vaghar is laser-focused on the organization’s scalability. To help The Sourcery attain, and ultimately surpass their goals, Vaghar relies on his 10+ years’ experience in various fast-paced environments, including CID Management, Athens Managed Care, and Gateway Learning Group, all of which have grown to well over 300 employees in less than three years’ time.

Vaghar earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from San Jose State University. He was born and raised in the East Bay.

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Jamie Ceglarz

Director of Growth

Jamie Ceglarz is the Director of Growth, where he leads the sales, partnerships, and business development efforts at The Sourcery. Jamie forges relationships and helps build and grow the channels that drive new clients to the company. Extremely familiar in this arena, Jamie began his career at the nation’s biggest contingent recruitment firm MitchelLake, and moved on to larger onsite and enterprise-sized talent augmentation engagements. He relies on his experience across various staffing solutions to assist growth-stage companies on how best to structure their recruitment endeavors.

Jamie earned his B.S. in Personal Finance and Spanish from San Diego State University. He was born and raised in the North Bay’s San Rafael, where he currently resides.

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Chantal Brosnac I am the Internal Recruiter for The Sourcery. In my free time I love to spend time with my two girls and enjoy adventuring outdoors.
Carmen Lapham Carmen spends her time with her family, friends, fostering great danes, and helping clients find great talent. A self-proclaimed geek, she loves learning about the latest in technology, and in a previous life worked with a company that managed the Star Wars and Star Trek fan clubs.
Erica Shafir Born and raised in Miami Beach, Erica has lived in cities all over the world including Israel, Santo Domingo, San Diego, San Francisco and her current home in New Orleans. Before joining The Sourcery, Erica worked for several startups in the Bay Area helping them build and retain top notch teams. When she isn’t working you can usually find her traveling, riding her bike, going to a concert or nurturing a codependent relationship with her dog, Jax.
Julie Ramirez Julie is a pure and proud Filipina. She’s enjoys reading good set of books and watching different genres of movies. She has an outgoing personality and loves to take on new challenges that life throws at her.
Victoria Velez Prior to joining The Sourcery, Victoria worked in Operations for ESPN Latin America. Having graduated from the University of Miami, she continues to be a die hard ‘Canes fan. She loves hanging out with her dog and taking pictures of him being adorable.
Anthony Lynch Anthony is the recruiting equivalent of the Juggernaut; an unstoppable force in talent acquisition. He is also a published author who is passionate about Warriors basketball, fantasy novels, MMA, and Survivor!
Darylle Ramirez Darylle is a proud Pinay by blood but American in culture with 9 years of Recruiting Experience, finished a degree of B.S Psychology and she is currently working her way to finish her Masters studies in Psychology. She is a geeky Fur-parent who is a Potterhead, wants Darth Vader for a boyfriend but has Princess Leia as an Alter-Ego.
Shawn Hullinger Shawn is a family man and takes much pride in that. Shawn loves spending time with his family and his kiddo, who is so much fun and quirky. Shawn and his wife really enjoy going to the casino and enjoying family time with their daughter Jaslyn. Jaslyn is 6 years old and has so much spunk it’s insane! Shawn really likes to bowl and is very good at it. He also likes taking on any sport and love being active!
Allison Fritts A leader with over 16 years of experience in Talent Acquisition. A proven professional in designing recruitment processes and procedures and integrating the latest in cutting edge technology. An innate talent for building and developing successful teams. Extensive exposure supporting various industries in the Federal, State & Local, Commercial, and Corporate verticals. Hobbies – avid runner (maybe after the seven -year-old) and a talented photographer and painter.
Anisha Rassai Below is a fun photo from Cinque Terre, Italy last summer! Anisha is a mother, Bay Area native, loves spending time with friends, family and traveling. Anisha is a people person that values relationships to foster growth and positivity. Anisha appreciates art, exploring cultures and her house is where she nests.
Christine Alling Christine is originally from the east coast and began her career in talent acquisition in the mid ’90’s as an agency recruiter in New York City. She has been a technical recruiter with a passion for sourcing for the last 8 years, focusing on finding technical professionals using the latest tools and technologies. In her spare time, she is an avid sports fan, a seasoned chef and baker and faithful servant to an adorable, albeit demanding, feline dictator.
Michelle Safi Michelle joined The Sourcery team with experience in recruiting and HR working at the SF Symphony and Stanford University. She is a Recruiter by day and an Actor by night. She has lived in Santa Cruz, SF, LA and currently resides in Paris where she enjoys the occasional baguette/fromage picnic by the seine! 🙂
David Villanueva David is a published children’s author, likes to hike, wishes he had a tree house, and loves blues and soul music, especially the music of Etta James!
Damian McElgunn Originally from Ireland, Damian has over 10 years experience in technology recruitment. He’s an avid soccer fan (Glasgow Celtic!!) and keen snowboarder.
Chris Hodge Chris leads Business Development efforts at The Sourcery. In this role his focus is to create new business opportunities for The Sourcery and drive partner and referral channels.
Zoubeir Achour Zoubeir’s experience partnering on recruitment contracts for a variety of companies made him realize that all of his strong skills could be best leveraged in recruiting management and operations. Zoubeir’s extensive research and operations experience in addition to recruiting, landed him at The Sourcery where he currently runs a global team of recruiters having immediate impact growing powerhouse teams for local start-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area.