Senior Manager, Early Careers Recruiting

CoreWeave; New York (NY); On-site; USD 149,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Discretionary bonus

Equity

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Parental Leave

ESPP

Wellness programs

Job summary

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

The ideal candidate has built or scaled university programs, managed recruiting teams, and established strong relationships with universities and student organizations. Experience in AI/tech recruiting is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in university or early-career recruiting, including program-building.
• 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 technology, AI, infrastructure, software, or related fields.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a comprehensive Early Careers recruiting strategy aligned with long-term talent needs.
• Design program structure: target schools, timelines, campus engagement, events, assessments, internships, and conversions.
• Develop and maintain relationships with university career centers, faculty, student organizations, and campus partners.
• Create differentiated recruiting campaigns to raise awareness of CoreWeave opportunities in technology/AI.
• Lead and develop a team of university recruiters and coordinators.
• Forecast hiring needs with business leaders and establish annual goals.
• Create scalable recruiting processes delivering high-quality candidate experiences.
• Oversee internship and new-graduate recruiting across functions, locations, and cycles.
• Partner with L&D to establish metrics on program performance (pipeline, offers, diversity, quality of hire).
• Manage university recruiting budget and allocate investments for impact.

Skills

University recruiting

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Technical recruiting

Program management

Influence senior leaders

Data-driven recruiting

Communication

Strategy execution

Travel flexibility

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:

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. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $149,000 to $198,000. The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave

Company-paid Life Insurance

Voluntary supplemental life insurance

Short and long-term disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health

Family-Forming support provided by Carrot

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside

401(k) with a generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations

A casual work environment

A work culture focused on innovative disruption

California Applicants

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [e-mail].

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.