Technical Recruiter, Early Career

Notion; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion is seeking an Early Career Recruiter to reshape early career hiring through innovative strategies and programs. You will drive the early career strategy, focusing on building recruiting programs for internships and new graduates while collaborating closely with various teams.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $135,000–$151,000 per year for candidates in San Francisco or New York City, emphasizing the creation of a compelling employer brand and superior candidate experience.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in early career, university, or program-based hiring.
• Genuine curiosity about sourcing and evaluating talent.
• Outstanding communication with hiring teams and candidates.

Responsibilities

• Design and run recruiting programs for internships and new grads.
• Experiment with non-traditional talent discovery methods.
• Build assessments to evaluate early career candidates.

Skills

Recruiter experience

Building mentality

Curiosity in evaluating talent

Employer brand instincts

Data-driven decision making

Job description

About The Role

Notion is looking for an Early Career Recruiter who wants to reimagine what early career hiring can look like. This is a role for a builder: someone energized by the question of how to find and cultivate exceptional emerging talent, who gets excited about crafting programs and experiences that don't yet exist, and who sees employer brand, candidate experience, and assessment design in an AI era as creative problems worth obsessing over.

You’ll own Notion’s early career strategy end-to-end alongside a team of talented teammates— from how we reach communities to how we evaluate potential, develop talent, and convert interns and new grads into the next generation of Notinos. You’ll work closely with our Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, and People teams. This role can be based in either San Francisco or New York City. We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person. We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days.

What You’ll Achieve

• A differentiated early career engine—design and run recruiting programs (internships, new‑grad pipelines, 0‑2 years from school pipelines) that are durable, scalable, and distinctly Notion
• New models for talent discovery—beyond traditional campus funnels; experiment with communities, hackathons, open-source, AI‑native sourcing tools, and creative outreach that meets candidates where they are
• Inspired evaluation frameworks—challenge conventional interview loops; build assessments that reveal how early career candidates think, learn, and create—not just what they already know
• A compelling employer brand presence—partner with Comms, Design, and People to articulate why Notion is the best place to launch a career, and bring that story to life across channels, events, and touchpoints
• Hiring team capability—coach and equip hiring managers and interviewers to assess early career talent with nuance, fairness, and high standards

Skills You’ll Need to Bring

• 2+ years of recruiter experience, with meaningful exposure to early career, university, or program‑based hiring
• A builder mentality—you’re most energized when you create something new, not manage something established
• Genuine curiosity about how to find and evaluate emerging talent; you’re always experimenting with new sourcing channels, assessment formats, and candidate engagement strategies
• Strong instincts for employer brand and candidate experience—you think about how every touchpoint shapes perception and builds (or erodes) trust
• The ability to move between strategy and execution; you can design a program and then run it
• Outstanding communication and relationship‑building skills with candidates, hiring teams, and cross‑functional partners
• Comfort with data—you use it to make decisions, spot patterns, and make the case for what’s working

Nice to Haves

• You’ve built or contributed to an early career program from scratch
• You’ve experimented with non‑traditional sourcing or evaluation approaches and can speak to what you learned
• You’re deeply familiar with the early career talent landscape in engineering and technical roles
• You use Notion and love it—you get what we’re building

Compensation and Benefits

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $135,000 – $151,000 per year.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Notion is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic.

Consistent with applicable law, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.