Sourcing Lead: Tech & Gov Talent (Remote)

Sofar Ocean; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Learning & development stipend

Job summary

Sofar Ocean is hiring its first in-house Sourcing Partner to lead the top of our hiring funnel. You will own finding and engaging hard-to-find talent, including security-cleared engineers, government-facing technical roles, and GTM hires capable of opening new markets.

Based at the Pier 28 office in San Francisco with remote flexibility, you will partner with hiring managers across engineering, product, and sales, shape our sourcing playbook, and build pipelines while ensuring clean Ashby data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of sourcing or full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Track record of filling technical roles.
• Strong Boolean and LinkedIn Recruiter skills.
• Experience with Ashby or a similar ATS.
• Clear, warm writing that makes candidates want to talk to us.
• Outgoing, curious approach to meeting people and building relationships.
• Comfort working independently on a small team and managing many open roles at once.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers at kickoff to define profile, target companies, and must-have signals for each role.
• Source and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, Ashby, Metaview, referrals, communities, and creative channels.
• Write outreach that gets replies, and keep testing what works.
• Build talent pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill roles, including cleared and defense-adjacent engineering.
• Run initial screens and hand off qualified candidates with clear notes.
• Keep Ashby data clean and report weekly on pipeline health, response rates, and source quality.
• Help shape our sourcing playbook and tooling, including AI-assisted sourcing as we build it.

Skills

Sourcing experience

Full-cycle recruiting

Boolean search

Candidate relationship building

Independent work

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Ashby

Metaview

Job description

Sofar Ocean is hiring its first in-house Sourcing Partner to lead the top of our hiring funnel. You will own finding and engaging hard-to-find talent, including security-cleared engineers, government-facing technical roles, and GTM hires capable of opening new markets.

Based at the Pier 28 office in San Francisco with remote flexibility, you will partner with hiring managers across engineering, product, and sales, shape our sourcing playbook, and build pipelines while ensuring clean Ashby data