Early Careers Lead/Program Manager

Fluidstack; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Generous PTO

Job summary

Fluidstack is building its early careers function from the ground up, seeking a leader to own strategy, infrastructure, and full-cycle recruiting for interns and new graduates across technical and non-technical teams.

You will design and execute university relationships, partner with TA, Compensation, and TA Ops, and scale programs across campuses where top talent concentrates. This role blends strategy, operations, and hands-on execution to shape Fluidstack's future.

Qualifications

• Experience building a university recruiting program with measurable outcomes.
• Ability to design programs with long-term impact.
• Strong candidate evaluation and campus relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and infrastructure for early careers from zero.
• Design university recruiting strategies with target schools.
• Lead internship and new grad programs end-to-end.
• Plan and execute campus events and virtual programs.

Skills

University recruiting

Program design

Stakeholder management

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.


• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.


• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.


• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.


• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

The Talent Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Deploy AI across the entire funnel: sourcing, screening, scheduling, and analysis run on AI, so a small team moves like a large one.


• Treat talent as the critical path: every team's ability to hit its goals is gated on hiring, so recruiting is the constraint the whole company watches.


• Build a brand the best want to join: make Fluidstack a place exceptional people seek out, not one they have to be convinced about.

Role Scope

• Build Fluidstack's early careers function from zero: own the strategy, stand up the infrastructure, and run full-cycle recruiting for intern and new graduate roles across technical and non-technical teams.


• Design and execute a university recruiting strategy by identifying the highest-signal target schools, building relationships with faculty and student organizations, and establishing Fluidstack's brand on the campuses where the most ambitious early-career talent concentrates.


• Co-design internship and new graduate programs with TA, Compensation, and TA Ops, then own adoption end to end: getting programs embedded and running across the business, not just built and handed off.


• Plan and execute on-campus and virtual recruiting events with a focus on early engagement, education, and brand, making Fluidstack a name the most ambitious students seek out before we ever post a req.


• Screen early-career candidates at a high bar: assess intellectual horsepower, mission alignment, and potential, not credentials, and make long-term bets with the judgment to back them.


• Track pipeline health, conversion rates, offer acceptance, and source quality across programs, and use that data to sharpen strategy and report results to leadership.


• Build the hiring infrastructure, rubrics, evaluation frameworks, and program playbooks, that creates a sustainable early talent funnel as Fluidstack scales.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

• You've built or materially scaled a university recruiting program and can point to specific outcomes: schools entered, pipelines built, conversion rates improved.


• You think in programs, not reqs: you design for the long term, building relationships and pipelines that compound over time, not just this semester's headcount.


• You hold an uncompromising bar for early talent: you know the difference between a strong GPA and genuine potential, and you evaluate accordingly.


• You create structure from ambiguity and write the playbook yourself rather than waiting for one.


• You measure what matters, pipeline conversion, source quality, intern-to-FTE conversion, and use it to make better decisions rather than just report activity.


• Bonus: University recruiting in AI, infrastructure, or deep-technical markets. Building early careers programs at high-growth or zero-to-one companies. Employer brand strategy for campus. Willingness to travel during peak recruiting cycles.

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).


• Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.


• Health, dental, and vision insurance.


• Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.