Founding Recruiter — Build World‑Class Tech TA (Equity)

Sol; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Mental health support

FSA and dependent care accounts

Life and disability insurance

401(k)

Untracked PTO and company holidays

Job summary

Sol in San Francisco, CA is hiring its first full-time recruiter to build Talent Acquisition from the ground up—the process, the systems, the employer brand, and the candidate experience.

You will own end-to-end hiring, scale Ashby and related tools with AI, source senior software engineers, AI/ML researchers, and product leaders, and partner with leaders to hire for mission and values.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting, including at least 2 years at an early-stage, venture-backed startup.
• Experience building recruiting from scratch: process, tools, metrics and employer brand, not just running an existing playbook.
• Deep technical sourcing expertise, with a proven track record of hiring exceptional senior software engineers, AI/ML researchers, and technical product leaders who weren't actively looking.
• Good judgment about people. You can tell excellent from merely impressive, and you push back with hiring managers when it matters.
• Experience setting up an ATS such as Ashby, Greenhouse or Lever, ability to evaluate technical skills and calibrate with engineering leadership, and comfort leveraging AI tools and automation in your sourcing workflow.
• You care about candidate experience and know that how a company hires tells candidates who it is.
• Bonus: experience in HR tech, enterprise SaaS or AI companies, or a background in People or HR operations.

Responsibilities

• Build the talent acquisition process. Execute the design of how Sol hires end to end: intake with hiring managers, scorecards, structured interview loops, debriefs, offers and handoff to onboarding.
• Own our hiring systems. Set up Ashby to scale with us: pipelines, reporting and automation. Use AI and agents where they make the work better, the same way we ask our customers to.
• Find and hire excellent talent, with a focus on cutting edge technical skills. Run full-cycle searches with a primary focus on engineering, product, and AI talent, while also supporting go-to-market and operations.
• Hire for mission and values. Give every interviewer a clear, consistent way to assess driven, humble people who challenge assumptions and sweat the details.
• Make our values show up at every stage. Every touchpoint should reflect who we are: honest outreach, a respectful process, fast and clear feedback, and closing conversations that tell the truth about where Sol is.
• Build the employer brand. Work with marketing and the founders to tell Sol's story to candidates, through job descriptions, LinkedIn, referrals, events and our founders' networks.
• Coach hiring managers and interviewers. Support the team in running fair, high-signal interviews that lead to good hiring decisions.
• Measure and improve. Track pipeline health, time to hire, offer acceptance and candidate experience. Use the data to keep improving how we hire.
• Manage outside partners. Decide when to use external recruiters and agencies, and hold them to Sol's bar.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

People leadership

Technical sourcing

Employer branding

Stakeholder management

Candidate experience

Tools

Ashby

Greenhouse

Lever

AI-assisted sourcing

Job description

Sol in San Francisco, CA is hiring its first full-time recruiter to build Talent Acquisition from the ground up—the process, the systems, the employer brand, and the candidate experience.

You will own end-to-end hiring, scale Ashby and related tools with AI, source senior software engineers, AI/ML researchers, and product leaders, and partner with leaders to hire for mission and values.