University Recruiting Manager (AI)

TL;DR

University Recruiting Manager (AI): Building hirify.global’ university recruiting engine for hiring exceptional new graduate software engineers with an accent on campus strategy, technical employer branding, and scalable early-career programs. Focus on developing relationships across 4–6 leading engineering universities, improving recruiting funnel performance, and creating a consistent candidate experience from first interaction through onboarding.

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, United States

Company

hirify.global is an applied AI lab building an Agent Workspace that automates sales workflows for more than 1,500 customers.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end university recruiting strategy and execution across 4–6 target engineering universities.
• Build relationships with career centers, professors, student organizations, and influential campus communities.
• Create early-talent employer branding through technical talks, hackathons, events, sponsorships, social content, and student engagement.
• Design and manage annual internship and new graduate recruiting programs, including sourcing, interviews, offers, and candidate experience.
• Partner with Engineering and People Operations leadership on hiring goals, evaluation standards, onboarding, budgets, vendors, and recruiting operations.
• Track recruiting metrics and improve conversion rates, applicant quality, and program scalability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of recruiting experience with significant ownership of university or early-career hiring.
• Experience building or scaling campus recruiting programs at a high-growth technology company.
• Proven success hiring engineering talent from leading universities and a strong understanding of technical hiring.
• Experience creating employer-brand initiatives that resonate with technical students.
• Strong relationship-building, project management, analytical, and stakeholder-collaboration skills.
• Comfort working in ambiguity, building programs from scratch, and prioritizing hiring quality.

Nice to have

• Experience hiring 8–10 new graduate software engineers annually.
• Experience launching signature campus initiatives and repeatable early-talent programs.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-oriented environment with ownership of a new strategic recruiting function.
• Opportunity to shape the future engineering organization and early-talent brand.
• Commitment to a diverse, inclusive, and discrimination-free workplace.
• Close collaboration with Engineering leadership and People Operations.