Founding Sourcer

claylabs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Claylabs in New York is seeking a Founding Sourcer to lead innovative sourcing initiatives and engage talented individuals in tech. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of recruiting experience in high-growth environments and is eager to experiment with creative ideas.

The role involves partnership with hiring managers and recruiters to optimize sourcing strategies and influence the hiring process. Join us at a thriving company where you'll help shape the future of our recruitment team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience sourcing and/or recruiting in high growth tech environments.
• Ability to generate amazing copy and sourcing ideas.
• Eagerness to experiment and iterate as the sourcing function is built.

Responsibilities

• Find creative recruiting alpha to engage incredible talent for clay.
• Experiment with tools and automations to enhance sourcing efficiency.
• Generate referrals from current employees.
• Research and map new geographies and industries for talent engagement.
• Monitor funnel metrics from initial contact to offer acceptance.
• Collaborate with recruiters on upcoming headcount needs.

Skills

Sourcing and recruiting experience

Creativity in copywriting

Adaptability

Tenacity

Job description

Founding Sourcer

Clay’s recruiting team has nearly doubled in size in the last 6 months, and we’re excited to build out our founding sourcing team. In this role, you’ll partner with incredible hiring managers, recruiters, and coordinators to experiment in how sourcing should work at an AI-forward company, build funnel for our highest volume roles, as well as research and map unique roles and ever-expanding geographies.

We’re so ready to be unlocked by our sourcing team. We have really lovely hiring managers who know what they’re looking for (and are still willing to experiment and iterate), well-documented interview processes, and wonderful recruiters and coordinators who are excited to collaborate and help you inflect our hiring during a really special growth phase for clay.

Clay (our product) has the potential to be one of the strongest sourcing tools on the market - joining this team will give you a chance to build on our own infrastructure, and influence the way many other companies’ recruiting and sourcing teams find recruiting alpha!

What you need

• 5+ years’ experience sourcing and/or recruiting in high growth tech environments
• Creativity to help you generate amazing copy and sourcing ideas
• Tenacity: we’re building this function from scratch! There will undoubtedly be iterations as we figure out what works
• Tinkering prowess and Adaptability: we’ll use clay as our main sourcing tool, and will try out other tools along the way, so you’ll need to be ready to tinker, change up your workflow, and try new things all the time!

What you’ll do

• Find creative recruiting alpha to engage incredible talent for clay
• Experiment with tools and automations to help make everyone at clay (hiring managers and recruiters too!) more effective sourcers
• Write great copy, and experiment with all sorts of drip campaigns and conversation starters
• Source from within! Generate referrals from all our amazing claymates, and figure out ways to do this at a larger and larger scale
• Research! Figure out new geos, industries, roles, and how we can engage the talent we need at just the right time
• Optimize your efforts by checking in on funnel metrics, from first touch to offer accept
• Partner closely with recruiters to anticipate and work against upcoming headcount