Senior Manager, Early Careers Recruiting

The role

This person will build and lead a university recruiting program from the ground up. They will develop strategy, partnerships, and processes to attract early-career talent across technical and business functions.

What you will do

• Build and execute a comprehensive Early Careers recruiting strategy.
• Design the foundational structure of the program including target-school selection, hiring timelines, and internship programming.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with university career centers, faculty, and student organizations.
• Create differentiated recruiting campaigns within the technology and AI ecosystem.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of university recruiters and recruiting coordinators.
• Partner with business leaders and Talent Acquisition leadership to forecast hiring needs.
• Build scalable and inclusive recruiting processes.
• Oversee internship and new-graduate recruiting across multiple functions and locations.
• Partner with the L&D Team to establish metrics to evaluate program performance.
• Manage the university recruiting budget.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience in university or early-career, including experience building or substantially expanding a program.
• Demonstrated experience managing, coaching, and developing a recruiting team.
• Established relationships across universities, career centers, faculty networks, and student organizations.
• Experience recruiting for technical roles within the technology, AI, infrastructure, software, or related industries.
• Strong program-management skills.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and build productive partnerships with hiring teams.
• Experience using data to set strategy, evaluate outcomes, and improve recruiting programs.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
• Ability to balance long-term strategy with hands-on execution.
• Willingness to travel during peak university recruiting periods.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting students in computer science, engineering, machine learning, data science, or other highly competitive technical disciplines.
• Experience creating internship programs and strategies that convert interns into full-time employees.
• Knowledge of the university recruiting landscape for AI and emerging technology talent.
• Experience building an employer brand with student and early-career audiences.
• Experience working in a high-growth or rapidly evolving organization.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside

Before you apply

• This position requires access to export controlled information.
• Applicant must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee), or eligible to access export controlled information without required authorization, or e

About the company

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company in March 2025.