# Head of Early Career Recruiting

**Company:** [Polymarket](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/polymarket)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Recruiting
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Campus Recruiting, University Recruiting, Internship Programs, Project Management, Budget Management, Recruiting Operations, Interview Workflows, Hackathons, Talent Communities, Data Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-09-02

> Leads the strategy, infrastructure, and team responsible for university recruiting and internship programs across technical and business functions. Requires significant experience scaling early-career talent programs, strong operational and stakeholder-management skills, and executive presence.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own a year-round campus recruiting strategy covering target schools, hackathons, career fairs, partnerships, budget, staffing, travel, and ROI.
- Build a distinctive, repeatable campus presence, including event activations, candidate capture, and follow-up.
- Launch and run the internship program from recruiting and onboarding through programming, manager enablement, and full-time conversion.
- Design scalable application, assessment, screening, and interview workflows.
- Partner with senior leaders and hiring managers across engineering, product, design, legal, finance, marketing, and other functions to plan headcount and early-career hiring needs.
- Hire and manage a growing early-career recruiting team and establish its operating standards and culture.
- Represent the company externally and build relationships with students, faculty, and university communities.
- Measure pipeline quality, conversion, event ROI, and program performance, and iterate accordingly.

## Requirements
- 5–10+ years of experience building or scaling campus recruiting, university talent, early-career, or similarly complex talent programs.
- Experience building systems and programs from the ground up.
- Exceptional operational rigor and project management skills, including managing a large budget and coordinating multiple workstreams.
- Strong executive presence and communication skills.
- Cultural fluency and strong judgment in creating relevant, energetic campus experiences.
- Ability to work across technical and business functions.
- Builder’s mindset, ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and willingness to experiment and iterate.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with hackathons, technical talent communities, or other creative university recruiting channels.
- Experience at a startup, high-growth technology company, or consulting or strategy environment.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- New MacBook Pro, display, and accessories.

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