Artificial Intelligence, Search Engine, Software

University Recruiter

San Francisco, CAHybridFull TimePosted 2 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

full-cycle recruiting
university hiring
campus recruiting
early career hiring
high volume
travel

Nice to have

CS programs
ML programs
engineering programs
research labs
ICPC
USACO

Role summary

Perplexity is seeking a University Recruiter to architect and lead their early career talent programs. This full-stack role involves end-to-end ownership of campus lifecycle recruiting, from building external relationships and internal partnerships to managing full-cycle recruitment for early-career candidates. The recruiter will have significant autonomy to design programs and candidate experiences, developing innovative strategies to attract top talent. Responsibilities include workforce planning, talent branding, and executing campus events like technical talks and hackathons. The role requires 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in university or early-career hiring and a strong organizational mindset for high-volume recruitment, with up to 25% travel.

Each year, Perplexity hires an exceptional cohort of early career talent to join our technical team. We’re looking for a University Recruiter to architect our early career programs and shape our strategy for attracting and evaluating the world’s most elite early-career talent.

This is a full-stack role where you’ll be responsible for all aspects of campus lifecycle recruiting: building relationships with external organizations, driving partnerships with internal stakeholders, and running full-cycle recruiting for all candidates. You’ll enjoy incredible latitude to design our programs and candidate experiences end-to-end, along with high-taste playbooks for how we bring the best and brightest to Perplexity.

What You’ll Do

Own full-cycle recruiting process for all early career candidates from sourcing to closing.
Partner closely with leaders at Perplexity on workforce planning, hiring strategy, and candidate evaluation.
Build and scale a strategy that goes far beyond the usual playbooks. Explore creative, unconventional ways to build a talent brand and foster relationships that help uncover hidden superstar talent.
Plan and execute campus programming including but not limited to technical talks, coding competitions and hackathons, on-campus interviews, and VIP events.

What You Bring

4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience owning university, campus, intern or early-career hiring.
Strong organizational mindset–this role is high volume and pressure, juggling multiple workstreams and candidates that you’ll have to manage.
Willingness to travel up to 25%, concentrated during fall and spring recruiting seasons.

Nice to Have

Existing relationships with top CS, ML and engineering programs, research labs or competitive programming communities (ICPC, USACO, etc.).

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