5-10+ years in campus recruiting or early-career talent programs
Proven ability to build systems and programs from scratch
Strong operational and project management skills
Excellent communication and executive presence
Cultural fluency to create engaging campus experiences
Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical functions
Builder's mindset, comfortable with experimentation and iteration
Experience with creative university recruiting channels is a plus
Responsibilities
Own and develop the campus recruiting strategy
Create a distinctive campus presence and engagement plan
Launch and manage the internship program
Design scalable recruiting processes and infrastructure
Collaborate with senior leaders to define hiring needs
Build and lead a dynamic early-career recruiting team
Represent Polymarket in university partnerships and relationships
Leverage data to improve recruitment effectiveness
Benefits
Competitive salary & equity
Unlimited PTO
Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
401k match
Hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro and accessories
Full Job Description
About the Role
Polymarket is looking for a Head of University 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
Pay Transparency
Base salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.
This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.
