Head of University & Early Careers Recruiting

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an Early Careers Recruiting Manager to build and lead our university recruiting program from the ground up. This role will develop the strategy, partnerships, processes, and team needed to attract exceptional early-career talent across technical and business functions.

The ideal candidate has built or significantly scaled a university recruiting program, managed high-performing recruiting teams, and established strong relationships with universities and student

Qualifications

• Experience building or expanding a university recruitment program.
• Experience managing, coaching, and developing a recruiting team.
• Established relationships across universities, career centers, faculty networks, and student organizations.
• Experience recruiting for technical roles within technology/AI or related industries.
• Strong program-management skills, with the ability to create structure and scalable processes in a fast-growing environment.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and build partnerships with hiring teams.
• Experience using data to set strategy, evaluate outcomes, and improve recruiting programs.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
• Willingness to travel during peak university recruiting periods.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute a comprehensive Early Careers recruiting strategy aligned with the company's long-term talent needs.
• Design the foundational structure of the program, including target-school selection, hiring timelines, campus engagement, events, candidate assessment, internship programming, and conversion strategies.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with university career centers, faculty, student organizations, technical clubs, and other campus partners.
• Create differentiated recruiting campaigns that build awareness of the company and its opportunities within the technology and AI ecosystem.
• Lead, coach, and develop (and potentially hire) a team of university recruiters and recruiting coordinators.
• Partner with business leaders, hiring managers, and Talent Acquisition leadership to forecast early-career hiring needs and establish annual hiring goals.
• Build scalable and inclusive recruiting processes that deliver a consistent, high-quality experience for candidates and internal partners.
• Oversee internship and new-graduate recruiting across multiple functions, locations, and academic cycles.
• Partner with the L&D Team to establish metrics to evaluate program performance, including pipeline health, offer acceptance, candidate experience, diversity, intern conversion, and quality of hire.
• Manage the university recruiting budget and determine where investments will have the greatest impact.
• Stay current on university recruiting trends, emerging talent markets, and the evolving skills needed within technology and AI organizations.

Skills

University recruiting

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking an Early Careers Recruiting Manager to build and lead our university recruiting program from the ground up. This role will develop the strategy, partnerships, processes, and team needed to attract exceptional early-career talent across technical and business functions.

The ideal candidate has built or significantly scaled a university recruiting program, managed high-performing recruiting teams, and established strong relationships with universities and student