The RoleThis is a builder role. You'll own every aspect of Nooks' early talent strategy-from developing our university brand to hiring our annual class of exceptional new graduate software engineers. You'll create the programs, partnerships, and recruiting engine that make Nooks a destination for the best engineering students. During the off-season, you may help out with industry engineering hiring while still maintaining continual growth of our new grad programs.
This isn't simply campus recruiting. You'll design the entire experience: identifying target schools, building faculty and student relationships, creating memorable events, running the recruiting process, and ensuring every new graduate has an outstanding experience from first interaction through onboarding.
Success means establishing Nooks as one of the most sought-after engineering employers on campus while consistently hiring 8-10 exceptional new graduate software engineers annually from a focused set of 4-6 top computer science programs.
What You'll Do- Own Nooks' end-to-end university recruiting strategy and execution.
- Develop a focused campus strategy across 4-6 top engineering universities.
- Build long-term relationships with career centers, professors, student organizations, and influential campus communities.
- Create Nooks' employer brand for early talent through events, technical talks, hackathons, sponsorships, social content, and student engagement.
- Design and manage our annual new graduate recruiting program, including sourcing, interview scheduling, offer management, and candidate experience.
- Partner closely with Engineering leadership to define hiring goals, interview processes, and evaluation standards.
- Build internship and new graduate recruiting programs that scale with the company.
- Create exceptional candidate experiences that reflect Nooks' culture and values.
- Plan and execute campus visits, information sessions, technical events, and networking opportunities.
- Track recruiting metrics and continuously improve conversion rates throughout the hiring funnel.
- Own recruiting operations, timelines, budgets, and vendor relationships related to university hiring.
- Partner with People Operations to help create an outstanding onboarding and early career experience.
What We're Looking For- 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 top engineering talent from leading universities.
- Strong understanding of engineering recruiting and technical hiring.
- Experience building employer branding initiatives that resonate with technical students.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills with both internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to run multiple recruiting initiatives simultaneously.
- Analytical mindset with experience using recruiting metrics to improve outcomes.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and building programs from scratch.
- Passion for helping exceptional early-career talent launch their careers.
You'll Thrive If You...- Love building programs where none exist today.
- Enjoy creating memorable candidate experiences.
- Think strategically while executing every detail.
- Build trusted relationships quickly.
- Are energized by representing an exciting company externally.
- Care deeply about hiring quality over hiring volume.
- Want to have a lasting impact on how a company attracts its future engineering leaders.
Success in Your First Year- Establish Nooks as a recognized engineering employer across 4-6 target universities.
- Hire an exceptional class of 8-10 new graduate software engineers.
- Build repeatable recruiting programs and campus partnerships that scale.
- Launch signature employer branding initiatives that increase awareness and applicant quality.
- Create a recruiting experience candidates consistently rave about.
- Develop the foundation for a world-class early talent program that grows with the company.
Why This Role MattersThe engineers we hire today will become the technical leaders of Nooks tomorrow. You'll have the opportunity to build a program that shapes the future of our engineering organization and creates one of the strongest early talent brands in technology.
