Founding Sourcer
New York City, NY - USA
Job Summary
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. Were already helping thousands of customers including Anthropic Notion Google and Ramp go to market with unique data signals and AI research.
In 2025 we raised a $100M Series C backed by world-class investors including Sequoia CapitalG and First Round and crossed $100M in revenue.
In 2026 we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round for our customers agency partners and club members.
Some things to know about us:
Our community includes 11000 customers 150 integration partners 125 agencies 50 Clay clubs and 30k members on Slack.
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.
Read about us in the NYT Forbes First Round Review and more.
Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!
Founding Sourcer
Clays recruiting team has nearly doubled in size in the last 6 months and were excited to build out our founding sourcing this role youll 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.
Were so ready to be unlocked by our sourcing team. We have really lovely hiring managers who know what theyre 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: were building this function from scratch! There will undoubtedly be iterations as we figure out what works
Tinkering prowess and Adaptability: well use clay as our main sourcing tool and will try out other tools along the way so youll need to be ready to tinker change up your workflow and try new things all the time!
What youll 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
About Company
Implement your creative growth ideas to build pipeline for your sales team. First, maximize your data coverage with 75+ enrichment tools and our AI agent. Then, use AI to craft the perfect outreach.