Sourcing Lead

The role

You will build the hiring funnel by finding and engaging talent for growth plans. You will focus on security-cleared engineers, government-facing technical roles, and sales hires.

What you will do

• Partner with hiring managers to define profiles, target companies, and must-have signals
• Source and engage passive candidates through various channels
• Write outreach and test what works
• Build talent pipelines for recurring and hard-to-fill roles
• Run initial screens and hand off qualified candidates
• Keep Ashby data clean and report weekly on pipeline health
• Help shape the sourcing playbook and tooling

Required qualifications

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

Nice to have

• Experience sourcing go-to-market roles, especially enterprise sales
• Experience sourcing security-cleared candidates or recruiting for defense or government programs
• Familiarity with ITAR and export-control hiring requirements
• Background in hardware, maritime, climate tech, or deep tech
• Interest in using AI tools to scale sourcing

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Flexible PTO
• Learning and development stipend

About the company

Sofar Ocean is building the world's largest real-time ocean sensor network. The team of about 100 is based at Pier 28 in San Francisco.