Head of Early Career Recruiting

Location: Hybrid, based in San Francisco or New York City; office presence required on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays as Anchor Days.

Base salary: $225,000–$275,000 per year for roles based in San Francisco or New York City, plus cash compensation, equity, and benefits.

Company

Notion is a collaborative AI workspace where individuals, teams, and companies manage knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools.

What you will do

• Define and own the global early career recruiting strategy across internship programs, new graduate hiring, and early-in-career pipelines.
• Manage and develop a high-performing team of early career recruiters.
• Advise senior business leaders using market intelligence, compensation insights, and emerging talent expertise.
• Lead adoption of AI tools, workflows, and automation across sourcing, assessment, and hiring.
• Design and improve internship programs, conversion strategies, offer frameworks, and intern-to-FTE pipelines.
• Establish recruiting metrics and partner with Storytelling and the Ambassador Program to strengthen the employer value proposition and early talent pipelines.

Requirements

• 4+ years of recruiting leadership experience focused on early career hiring, including university recruiting, internship programs, new graduate pipelines, and early-in-career hiring across functions.
• Experience building and scaling high-performing early career teams and programs in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
• Ability to set strategic direction and execute hands-on during demanding recruiting seasons.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using conversion rates, funnel health, program ROI, and team performance data to make decisions.
• Credibility and market knowledge to advise senior leaders and influence program investment and hiring decisions.
• AI-first orientation, fluency with modern tools, and a record of bringing teams along through continuous discovery.
• Deep knowledge of early career compensation trends, talent market dynamics, and partnerships with universities, bootcamps, channels, and communities.

Nice to have

• Program management or talent development experience designing structured early career experiences such as rotational programs or mentorship tracks.
• Experience using AI to change early career recruiting through workflow design, adoption, and function-wide improvements.
• Experience designing and executing diversity recruiting programs targeting HBCUs, community colleges, or underrepresented talent communities with measurable outcomes.
• Strong network in university recruiting, early career, and campus talent communities.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid collaboration with regular in-office work on Anchor Days.
• Competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
• AI is used as a collaborator, with an emphasis on intellectual curiosity, tinkering, and discovery.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations during the application process.