Emerging Talent Recruiter, Engineering

Responsibilities

Own 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 outreach, interviews, events, internship hosting, and offers.
• Maintain funnel momentum, diagnose issues early, and unblock the pipeline weekly.

Build the employer brand

• Represent Datadog as an employer for emerging talent across university campuses and virtual channels in EMEA.
• Own university and student organization relationships and represent Datadog on campus.
• Plan and execute recruiting events, career fairs, hackathons, information sessions, and other engagements.
• Develop an understanding of partner schools and organizations and connect it to recruiting goals.

Drive inclusive hiring

• Build inclusive sourcing and engagement strategies and track representation across the funnel.
• Identify where diverse candidates drop off and improve outcomes across outreach, interviews, and closing.

Use data and innovate

• Track conversion, offer acceptance, and funnel health metrics and use them to improve recruiting practices.
• Use AI-enabled tools to summarize data, identify trends, and reduce manual work while validating outputs.
• Bring insights and recommendations to hiring partners.
• Test engagement formats, sourcing strategies, and event formats; measure results and share learnings.
• Apply a Start, Stop, Continue review after each recruiting cycle.

Requirements

Recruiter

• 1–3 years of experience in campus, university, or early-career recruiting.
• Experience building and managing a candidate pipeline end-to-end.
• Strong communication skills and confidence representing the company to students, hiring managers, and university partners.
• Comfort with data and tracking recruiting metrics to improve performance.
• Strong organization and adaptability while managing multiple events, timelines, and candidates.
• Fluent in English and French.
• Willingness to travel to campuses across Europe.

Senior Recruiter

• 3–5+ years of experience in campus or early-career recruiting.
• Experience owning complex or high-priority school relationships and programs.
• Experience shaping strategy, influencing hiring partners with data, and improving pipeline or inclusion outcomes.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders and holding hiring teams accountable to shared goals.
• Experience mentoring or coaching other recruiters.

Nice to Have

• Additional European languages.