--- title: 'Lead Recruiter at Sol' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/lead-recruiter-sol-san-mateo-2wx6a3hevyn6' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-16' --- # Lead Recruiter at Sol - **Company:** Sol - **Location:** San Mateo, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-12 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sol/f0ad66e4-83cc-476b-82ce-db159a5dbfa1 ## Job description ## About Sol Sol is an agentic HR system built for how work is changing. We're replacing the traditional HRIS with an AI-native foundation. We are built for change, designed to scale, and reimagined with AI from the ground up, so HR leaders get a clear view of their workforce instead of a system everyone works around. At Sol, we're guided by three things: people: we hire driven, humble people and build to amplify their potential and our customers'; imagination: we challenge assumptions about our industry and how software gets built, then move fast once we've decided; and durability: we sweat the details to build a company that is meant to last. Day to day, that shows up as a bias toward writing things down over meetings, async communication by default, and flexible hours that respect how differently everyone works. We try new things, kill what isn't working, and hold a high bar without the politics or ego that slow good decisions down. Sol was founded by leaders who spent decades building the modern HR category, and is backed by Sutter Hill Ventures and NEA. Our first customers go live in early 2027 and we need you to make them wildly successful. ## THE ROLE We're hiring our first full-time recruiter. We have foundational processes and systems and you'll continue to build Talent Acquisition into a world class function: the process, the tools, the employer brand and the candidate experience. We build software for people who run HR, so how we hire is a test of what we believe. We deeply care about candidate experience and this role will help our values show up at every stage, from the first outreach to the offer call. This role is hybrid: onsite 3 days in San Mateo to start and then San Francisco (we move next summer). ## WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build the talent acquisition process. Execute the design of how Sol hires end to end: intake with hiring managers, scorecards, structured interview loops, debriefs, offers and handoff to onboarding. - Own our hiring systems. Set up Ashby to scale with us: pipelines, reporting and automation. Use AI and agents where they make the work better, the same way we ask our customers to. - Find and hire excellent talent, with a focus on cutting edge technical skills. Run full-cycle searches with a primary focus on engineering, product, and AI talent, while also supporting go-to-market and operations. Source world-class technical candidates directly, build networks of elite engineers who don't apply through job boards, and close top-tier talent in competitive markets. - Hire for mission and values. Give every interviewer a clear, consistent way to assess driven, humble people who challenge assumptions and sweat the details. Raise the bar on judgment as well as skills. - Make our values show up at every stage. Every touchpoint should reflect who we are: honest outreach, a respectful process, fast and clear feedback, and closing conversations that tell the truth about where Sol is. - Build the employer brand. Work with marketing and the founders to tell Sol's story to candidates, through job descriptions, LinkedIn, referrals, events and our founders' networks. - Coach hiring managers and interviewers. Support the team in running fair, high-signal interviews that lead to good hiring decisions. - Measure and improve. Track pipeline health, time to hire, offer acceptance and candidate experience. Use the data to keep improving how we hire. - Manage outside partners. Decide when to use external recruiters and agencies, and hold them to Sol's bar. ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting, including at least 2 years at an early-stage, venture-backed startup. Ideally you were an early or founding recruiter there. - A track record of building recruiting from scratch: process, tools, metrics and employer brand, not just running an existing playbook. - Deep technical sourcing expertise, with a proven track record of hiring exceptional senior software engineers, AI/ML researchers, and technical product leaders who weren't actively looking. - Good judgment about people. You can tell excellent from merely impressive, and you push back with hiring managers when it matters. - Experience setting up an ATS such as Ashby, Greenhouse or Lever, ability to evaluate technical skills and calibrate with engineering leadership, and comfort leveraging AI tools and automation in your sourcing workflow. - You care about candidate experience and know that how a company hires tells candidates who it is. - You're driven and humble, comfortable with ambiguity, and happy to do the work yourself while you build the system. - Bonus: experience in HR tech, enterprise SaaS or AI companies, or a background in People or HR operations. ## WHY NOW We're early. Our first enterprise customers go live in early 2027, and the people we hire over the next 18 months will decide what Sol becomes. You'll set the standard for every hire that follows and the experience every candidate has of Sol. That's a rare chance to build recruiting the right way from day one, at a company whose product is built around how people work. ## COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS - Base range: $200,0000-250,000.00 and significant early-stage equity - Medical, dental and vision coverage - Mental health support (Talkspace), fertility care (Kindbody) and primary care access (Teladoc, One Medical) - FSA and dependent care accounts - Life and disability insurance - 401(k) - Untracked PTO and company holidays Location: San Francisco, CA (hybrid). Sol is an equal opportunity employer. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We're committed to building an inclusive workplace and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. ## About Sol ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Sol is building an agentic HR system designed to replace traditional HRIS platforms for a dynamic, AI-native workforce. - **Entity Type**: Private (Early Stage, backed by venture capital) - **Headquarters**: Not publicly available (operates remotely) - **Founded**: Not publicly available - **Founders**: Pete Schlampp (CEO), Erin Yang (CPO & COO), Jim Stratton (CTO), Jon Ruggiero (Chief Architect) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Human Resources Technology (HR Tech), Enterprise Software, AI / Agentic Systems - Target customers: Growing enterprises (B2B) - Mission or purpose statement: To build an agentic HR foundation that handles the operational load, giving leaders faster answers and the ability to manage an ever-changing workforce, amplifying human potential. The tagline is "Run at the pace of human ambition." ## Products & Services - **Sol (Agentic HR System)**: A cloud-based, AI-native platform that replaces a traditional HRIS. It is described as "agentic by design," meaning it is built to self-maintain and provide answers rather than tickets. It aims to capture the full picture of how work gets done, providing a foundation for both leaders and AI agents. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding (not publicly available); First customers go live in early 2027. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - **Investors**: Sutter Hill Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA). - **Advisors**: Leighanne Levensaler (former EVP of Products & Corporate Strategy, Workday), Anna Binder (former Chief People Officer, Asana). - **Growth Signals**: Founded by a team of four former high-ranking Workday leaders (Product, CTO, Chief Architect, CPO). The company is in a pre-launch/pre-revenue phase, actively hiring and offering early access to prospective customers. ## Competitive Advantages - **Founding Team Moat**: Built by a team that helped scale Workday to an enterprise HR category leader, giving them deep domain expertise and credibility. - **AI-Native from Day One**: Unlike legacy systems or those adding AI as a feature, Sol is "agentic by design," reimagining the entire HR foundation with AI at its core. - **Focus on Context**: The system is designed to capture not just transactions but the context behind decisions, solving a key data problem for AI agents. ## Strategic Focus - **Pre-Launch & Building**: The current priority is building the product and preparing for its first customer go-lives in early 2027. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring engineers, designers, and product architects to build the AI-native platform. - **Market Disruption**: Targeting to replace existing HRIS systems for enterprises that need a more dynamic and intelligent foundation for a changing workforce. ## Why Work Here - **Founding Team & Vision**: Opportunity to work with leaders who shaped a major enterprise category (Workday) and build a category-defining product from scratch. - **AI-Native Engineering**: A chance to build a complex enterprise system using cutting-edge AI technology, appealing to engineers who want to work on foundational architecture rather than bolt-on features. - **Remote-First Culture**: The careers page lists roles as "Remote - US," "Remote - European Union," and "Remote," indicating a remote-first or hybrid-remote work policy. - **Early Stage Impact**: As a pre-launch company, new hires will have significant ownership and influence over the product and company culture from the ground up. ## Sources 1. 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