Senior Campus Recruiter – Early Talent Programs

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The Senior Campus Recruiter will support and execute early talent hiring programs with a primary focus on internship recruitment and early‑career pipeline development. This role plays a critical executional and partnership role—collaborating closely with the Early Talent Programs Manager and business stakeholders to deliver a high‑volume, high‑quality campus recruiting experience.

This position requires strong full‑cycle recruiting expertise, confidence in stakeholder management, and the ability to translate business needs into scalable campus hiring outcomes.

• Execute full cycle recruiting for early talent programs, with a primary focus on internship hiring
• Manage multiple hiring pipelines simultaneously while maintaining a strong candidate experience
• Partner with the Early Talent Programs Manager to ensure alignment across program timelines, milestones, and deliverables
• Leverage AI and emerging recruiting technologies to translate internship skill requirements into optimized sourcing, screening, and selection strategies, embedding automation to improve recruiting efficiency and strategic impact.
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand evolving skill needs and hiring priorities
• Provide regular updates on pipeline health, risks, and hiring progress
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for campus hiring inquiries within assigned stakeholder groups
• Coordinate and manage interview processes, including scheduling, interviewer alignment, and candidate follow‑up
• Ensure fair, consistent, and timely evaluation of early talent candidates
• Support offer process execution, including candidate communication and coordination with internal partners
• Maintain accurate and up‑to‑date requisition and candidate data in the Applicant Tracking System
• Ensure adherence to campus recruiting processes and compliance requirements
• Deliver a consistent, positive candidate experience across all early talent programs
• Support campus recruiting events as needed (career fairs, information sessions, and virtual engagements)
• Partner with internal teams to support onboarding readiness and hiring handoffs
• Perform ad hoc administrative duties as needed.

• 3 – 6 years of recruiting experience, with direct campus or early talent recruiting experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing high‑volume hiring pipelines.
• Strong understanding of full‑cycle recruiting, from intake through offer.
• Proven ability to lead stakeholder meetings and intake discussions.
• Travel may be required during peak campus recruiting seasons
• This role may experience seasonal workload spikes aligned to campus recruiting cycles
• Able to work a flexible schedule as workload requires.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills.
• Initiative to manage recruiting processes with minimal guidance.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system like Handshake and Taleo is a plus.
• Comfortable learning and leveraging virtual sourcing systems and techniques including virtual interviewing platforms.

• Experience supporting internship or early‑career programs at scale
• Background in technology, consulting, or professional services environments
• Familiarity with early talent lifecycle programming (internships, externships, academic‑year pipelines)

Prefer Dallas – TX, Phoenix – AZ or Atlanta – GA, but open to remote anywhere in the US.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based…