Senior Early Talent Recruiter

What You’ll Be Doing
Own Grow’s end-to-end early talent strategy and programs, spanning campus recruiting, offer management, candidate engagement, internship delivery, and return offer planning.

Lead full-cycle recruiting for engineering interns, developing campus strategies, building university partnerships, driving events, and managing the recruiting process from sourcing through offer acceptance.

Build and scale a year-round University of Waterloo co-op program across multiple academic terms, establishing a sustainable pipeline of top engineering talent.

Partner with Engineering leadership to design and operate a high-quality internship program, ensuring every intern has meaningful project scope, dedicated mentorship, and strong manager support.

Drive program strategy and continuous improvement through data, using recruiting funnel health, conversion metrics, intern performance, and return offer outcomes to inform decisions and measure impact.

Build scalable processes, systems, and playbooks that enable the early talent program to grow while maintaining an exceptional candidate and intern experience.

You’ll Be a Good Fit If You
Have 6+ years of recruiting experience with significant ownership of early talent hiring, including leading at least two full campus recruiting cycles from strategy through program execution.

Have built, scaled, or significantly evolved an internship or co-op program, with experience across recruiting, program operations, intern experience, and evaluation.

Bring strong program management skills, balancing long-term planning with flawless execution across multiple recruiting cycles, stakeholders, and competing priorities.

Use data to drive decisions, continuously improving recruiting outcomes, program quality, and operational efficiency through clear metrics and thoughtful analysis.

Embrace AI and modern recruiting technologies to work more efficiently, improve candidate experience, and scale programs without adding unnecessary complexity.

Enjoy building from first principles, creating strategy, establishing operating rhythms, and turning ambiguous opportunities into repeatable, high-impact programs.