Graduate Recruiter

Valarian Technologies; Manchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

A competitive salary

Employer pension contributions

Private health insurance

Hybrid work setup

Rewarding company retreats

Job summary

Valarian Technologies is seeking a Graduate Recruiter to oversee early-careers hiring across the business, with UK-wide university relationships and a remote-first approach. You will manage full-lifecycle recruitment for graduates and interns, building a robust candidate pipeline from campus networks.

You’ll partner with leadership to map hiring needs, design campus campaigns, and drive the candidate journey from initial contact to remote onboarding, while engaging with Oxford, Cambridge and

Qualifications

• Experience running full-lifecycle early-careers or graduate hiring campaigns.
• Established ties with Oxford, Cambridge and Russell Group universities.
• Ability to identify high-potential candidates from diverse backgrounds.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Self-start, highly autonomous in a remote UK-wide role.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end graduate, internship, and entry-level recruitment.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with universities and departments.
• Design campus attraction campaigns and attend career events across the UK.
• Oversee candidate evaluation, including CV screening and interviews.
• Align with leadership to map hiring needs and run efficient drives.
• Deliver engaging candidate experience and track pipeline metrics.

Skills

Full lifecycle recruiting

Graduate hiring

University partnerships

Remote work management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company building critical tools to safeguard the future in an era of evolving global security challenges. We're rethinking security beyond traditional military domains, addressing asymmetric threats that impact our technological advantage, economic strength, and democratic institutions.

We build Acra – the platform foundation for everything we do as a dual-use technology company. The platform’s name, rooted in the Greek word for citadel (or, fortress), reflects the design and purpose of our infrastructure-agnostic secure enclaves: protecting critical data. Some of the government and commercial workflows include: increased operational resiliency for mission-critical systems and functions; enabling organisations to more quickly and widely adopt emerging technologies while ensuring the integrity of their intellectual property; information flow during disaster response scenarios, and zero-trust / least-privilege environments for M&A, attorney-client privileged communications, etc. And we’ve only scratched the surface.

At our core, we're driven by a shared mission and a belief in making a tangible impact on our world. Whether you join our London HQ or the wider global organisation, you’ll be a part of collaborative, high-performing teams, creating cutting-edge software, platforms, and infrastructure.

The Role

As a Graduate Recruiter, you will oversee early-careers recruitment across the entire business—spanning operations, commercial, strategy, product, growth, and core departments. Operating remotely, your primary focus will be leveraging established university relationships across the UK to build consistent pipelines of top graduate talent.

This role requires someone who deeply understands the higher education landscape and knows how to navigate university networks, career centers, and student organizations to position Valarian as an employer of choice.

What you’ll do:

• End-to-End Early Careers Hiring: Manage full-lifecycle graduate, intern, and entry-level recruitment across all business functions.
• University Relationship Management: Build, expand, and maintain deep strategic relationships with top universities, career departments, academic heads, and student societies.
• Nationwide Campus Strategy: Design and execute targeted campus attraction campaigns, attending career fairs, guest lectures, and university networking sessions across the UK.
• Selection & Assessment: Own the evaluation processes, including CV screening, interviews, assessment, and pipeline.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Partner closely with leadership and team leads to map out hiring needs, define candidate profiles, and deliver efficient recruitment drives.
• Candidate Experience & Analytics: Deliver an engaging candidate journey from initial campus touchpoints through to offer acceptance and remote onboarding, while tracking pipeline conversion metrics.

What we are looking for:

• Oxford, Cambridge & Russell Group Focus: Demonstrated experience and established ties with Oxford, Cambridge, Russell Group universities, and top global higher-education networks.
• Graduate Recruiting Track Record: Proven background in running full-lifecycle early-careers or graduate hiring campaigns.
• Broad Candidate Evaluation: Skill in identifying high-potential candidates across diverse academic backgrounds—seeking out high agency, analytical power, and strong execution ability.
• Communication & Influence: Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills to represent Valarian compellingly to students, academic partners, and internal leadership.
• Remote Autonomy: Highly self-motivated and structured, capable of managing national university partnerships and hiring workflows independently in a remote environment.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to ensure our employees feel taken care of and are proud to be a part of the Valarian team. We are committed to consistently enhancing our benefit package, taking into account the overall well-being and needs of our teammates. Here are the key benefits accessible to all employees at Valarian Technologies:

• Equity – because you have the right to own what you’re building
• A competitive salary – because we value your unique skills
• Employer pension contributions – because you deserve a secure future
• Private health insurance - because your health is important to us
• Hybrid work setup – because everyone has different needs
• Rewarding company retreats and meetups that respect your work/life balance – because we love getting to know each other!

Life at Valarian

Our culture is built on inclusivity, compassion and flexibility – we want everyone to be empowered to achieve their goals at Valarian.

The work we do is vital, but so are the connections that make it happen. We thrive on the shared energy, spontaneous conversations, and mutual trust built when we spend time together. We operate on a hybrid model, gathering in our London office 3 days a week to support one another and collaborate.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Valarian Technologies Limited is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran, amnesty, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We are committed to ensuring a fair and inclusive recruitment process and providing employment opportunities to all applicants. Decision recruitment, hiring, and employment are based solely on qualifications, skills, and experience relevant to the job requirements.