Senior Manager, 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 The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com .

About the Team

We are seeking an Early Careers Recruiting Manager to build and lead our university recruiting program from the ground up. This person 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 organizations. Experience recruiting within the technology, AI, or similarly fast-moving industry is highly valued.

Key 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.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in university or early-career, including experience building or substantially expanding a program.
• Demonstrated 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 the technology, AI, infrastructure, software, 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 productive partnerships with hiring teams.
• Experience using data to set strategy, evaluate outcomes, and improve recruiting programs.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
• Ability to balance long-term strategy with hands‑on execution.
• Willingness to travel during peak university recruiting periods.

Preferred Skills

• Experience recruiting students in computer science, engineering, machine learning, data science, or other highly competitive technical disciplines.
• Experience creating internship programs and strategies that convert interns into full-time employees.
• Knowledge of the university recruiting landscape for AI and emerging technology talent.
• Experience building an employer brand with student and early-career audiences.
• Experience working in a high-growth or rapidly evolving organization.

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

Core Values

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding