Aimed at junior sourcers with 5+ years in tech recruiting who thrive in experimental, tool-driven environments.
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As a Founding Sourcer at Claylabs, you'll innovate and experiment with sourcing strategies, leveraging creativity and tenacity to engage top talent for high-volume roles, while also contributing to the development of the company's AI-driven sourcing tool.
Original posting from Claylabs via Ashby
ABOUT CLAY
Our mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality.
We see growth as a creative practice, not a formula. Finding and reaching your best-fit customers takes unique ideas and constant iteration. As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy, creativity is the only lasting advantage. We're already helping thousands of customers https://clayrun.notion.site/Wall-of-Love-b243f2b67607438b9fad99341e6b8d47 — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.
In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.htmlbacked by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue.
In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/dealbook/clay-start-up-tender-offers.html in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round https://www.clay.com/blog/community-equity-offering, for our customers, agency partners, and club members.
Some things to know about us:
- Our community http://community.clay.com includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs https://luma.com/claylive, and 30k members on Slack.
- Our culture https://nextplayso.substack.com/p/spotlight-clay is unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more.
- All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
- Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/61477f2c24a826836f969afe/685d83a71452245cc1129791_4d770abfd83e276ec15315a2e06945bd_Clay2025_OperatingPrinciples.pdf.
- Read about us in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.html, Forbes First Round Review https://review.firstround.com/podcast/inside-clays-unconventional-path-to-1-25b/, and more https://www.clay.com/press.
Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Clay-EI_IE9850794.11,15.htm page!
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!
Our sourcing team will be at the center of our recruiting team at clay, where all of us will gravitate toward for great ideas, automations, AI tooling, and of course, incredible future claymates.
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
Source: Claylabs careers (Ashby)