Emerging Talent Recruiter, Engineering

United States Digital Space LLC; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 58,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Stock options (RSUs)

Employee stock purchase plan

Career development

Job summary

Datadog is seeking a recruiter to own the pipeline for interns, new grads, and early career hires across Europe. You will manage the end-to-end lifecycle, partner with university programs, and create a high-quality candidate experience through interviews, events, and offers.

The role requires 1–5 years in campus or early career recruiting, strong storytelling, data-driven decision making, and willingness to travel across Europe. Hybrid work with Paris-based office accessibility is available.

Qualifications

• Experience in campus/early career recruiting beneficial.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Fluent in English and French; other European languages a plus.
• Willingness to travel to campuses across Europe.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end candidate lifecycle for assigned schools, functions, or programs across EMEA, from sourcing and screening through offer and conversion.
• Deliver a high-touch, consistent candidate experience across every touchpoint: outreach, interviews, events, internship hosting, and offer.
• Build inclusive sourcing and engagement strategies and track representation across your funnel.

Job description

The Recruiting team is responsible for growing our teams at the company with great people across multiple technical and business areas. Our recruiters are strategic business partners, matchmakers, sellers, and marketers with strong relationships across the leadership team. As part of our Global Emerging Talent Team, you'll help build the pipeline that fuels the company's future, owning the full candidate journey for our interns, new grads, and early career hires across EMEA.

We're evolving how we do Emerging Talent recruiting. In 2026 and beyond, this isn't just about filling a calendar of campus events. It's about building a predictable, high-quality pipeline, delivering a candidate experience people talk about, driving representation at the entry level, using data to make sharper decisions, and taking smart risks to keep improving how we do all of it. This role is central to that shift.

At the company, we place value in our office culture. The relationships and collaboration it builds, and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace (3 days/week in our Paris office) to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll DoOwn the pipeline and candidate experience

• Own the end-to-end candidate lifecycle for assigned schools, functions, or programs across EMEA, from sourcing and screening through offer and conversion,

• Deliver a high-touch, consistent candidate experience across every touchpoint: outreach, interviews, events, internship hosting, and offer

• Maintain funnel momentum, diagnose issues early, and unblock your pipeline weekly

Be a brand ambassador

• Represent the company as a premier employer for emerging talent across university campuses and virtual channels in EMEA

• Own key university and student organization relationships; act as the face of the company on campus

• Plan and execute recruiting events, career fairs, hackathons, info sessions, and "beyond campus" engagements that create real excitement, not just check a box

• Embed yourself in the culture of the schools and organizations you partner with, and connect that understanding back to our recruiting goals

Drive inclusive, representative hiring

• Build inclusive sourcing and engagement strategies and track representation across your funnel

• Identify where diverse candidates drop off and take action to improve outcomes at every stage: outreach, interview, and close

Use data to get better, not just to report

• Know your personal KPIs (conversion, offer acceptance, funnel health) and use them to self-correct

• Use AI-enabled tools to summarize data, spot trends, and reduce manual work, while checking outputs for accuracy before acting on them

• Bring insights and recommendations to hiring partners, not just status updates

Innovate and iterate

• Test new engagement formats, sourcing strategies, and event formats; measure what works and share it with the team

• Adopt a "Start, Stop, Continue" mindset after each recruiting cycle

Who You AreFor Recruiter:

• 1-3 years of experience in campus, university, or early career recruiting

• Proven ability to build and manage a candidate pipeline end-to-end

• Strong communicator who can represent the company confidently in front of students, hiring managers, and university partners

• Comfortable with data and the ability to track your own numbers and use them to improve your approach

• Organized and adaptable; you can run multiple events, timelines, and candidates at once without dropping the ball

• Fluent in English and French; additional European languages are a plus

• Willingness to travel to campuses across Europe

For Senior Recruiter, additionally:

• 3-5+ years of experience in campus/early career recruiting, including ownership of complex or high-priority school relationships and programs

• Track record of shaping strategy, not just executing a plan. You've influenced hiring partners with data and driven measurable improvements to pipeline or inclusion outcomes

• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and holding hiring teams accountable to shared goals

• History of mentoring or coaching other recruiters and setting the bar for team behaviors

We understand not everyone will meet every qualification on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about early talent and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth

• Generous and competitive health benefits

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan

• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities

• Best in breed onboarding

• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking

• An inclusive company culture, with the ability to join our Community Guilds (the company employee resource groups)

• Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions

• Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with the company.

About the company:

the company is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, the company enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and the company Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at the company:

the company is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.

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