About the RolePolymarket is looking for a Head of Early Career Recruiting to build our university recruiting and internship programs from the ground up. You'll own our strategy for attracting exceptional early-career talent across engineering, product, design, and business functions - from our presence on campus through internship and full-time conversion.
This is a high-ownership, highly visible role. You'll build the systems, experiences, and team needed to make Polymarket a standout destination for exceptional early-career talent. You'll combine strong operational rigor with creativity and cultural fluency to figure out how Polymarket should show up on campus.
What You'll Do- Own our campus recruiting strategy - build a year-round plan for target schools, hackathons, career fairs, partnerships, and other early-talent channels, including budget, staffing, travel, and ROI
- Build Polymarket's campus presence - create a distinctive, repeatable playbook for how we show up on campus, from event strategy and activations to candidate capture and follow-up
- Launch and run our internship program - build a structured, high-quality experience from recruiting through onboarding, programming, manager enablement, and full-time conversion
- Build the recruiting infrastructure - design scalable application, assessment, screening, and interview workflows that surface the strongest candidates and make it easy for hiring teams to engage them
- Partner with senior leaders and hiring managers across engineering, product, design, legal, finance, marketing, and other functions to plan headcount, define hiring needs, and build effective early-career pipelines
- Build and lead the team - hire and manage a small early-career recruiting team as the program scales, while setting the operating standards and culture for the function
- Represent Polymarket externally - bring the right engineers, product leaders, designers, and business leaders into our campus strategy and build relationships with students, faculty, and university communities
- Use data and judgment to iterate - measure pipeline quality, conversion, event ROI, and program performance to continuously improve our approach
What We're Looking For- 5-10+ years of experience building or scaling campus recruiting, university talent, early-career, or similarly complex talent programs
- Track record of building systems and programs from the ground up - you're as comfortable designing the infrastructure as you are executing against it
- Exceptional operational rigor and project management skills, with the ability to own a large budget, coordinate many moving pieces, and move quickly
- Strong executive presence and communication skills - you're comfortable representing Polymarket externally and influencing senior stakeholders internally
- Cultural fluency and strong taste - you know how to create campus experiences that feel relevant, energetic, and distinctly Polymarket
- Ability to work across technical and business functions without needing to be the subject-matter expert for every role
- A builder's mindset - you thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and aren't afraid to experiment and iterate
- Experience with hackathons, technical talent communities, or other creative university recruiting channels is a plus
- Experience at a startup, high-growth technology company, or consulting/strategy environment is a plus
Benefits- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
