University Recruiter

Perplexity is hiring a University Recruiter in San Francisco, United States. It pays $165k-$200k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Perplexity.

Level's read on this job

Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this HR role: aI is not part of the work.
Pay on this posting starts 38% higher than the typical HR posting on Level.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
Perplexity has 137 other open roles on Level.
Posted in the last few days.

AI in this role

Each year, Perplexity hires an exceptional cohort of early career talent to join our technical team. We’re looking for a University Recruiter to architect our early career programs and shape our strategy for attracting and evaluating the world’s most elite early-career talent.

This is a full-stack role where you’ll be responsible for all aspects of campus lifecycle recruiting: building relationships with external organizations, driving partnerships with internal stakeholders, and running full-cycle recruiting for all candidates. You’ll enjoy incredible latitude to design our programs and candidate experiences end-to-end, along with high-taste playbooks for how we bring the best and brightest to Perplexity.

What You’ll Do

Own full-cycle recruiting process for all early career candidates from sourcing to closing.
Partner closely with leaders at Perplexity on workforce planning, hiring strategy, and candidate evaluation.
Build and scale a strategy that goes far beyond the usual playbooks. Explore creative, unconventional ways to build a talent brand and foster relationships that help uncover hidden superstar talent.
Plan and execute campus programming including but not limited to technical talks, coding competitions and hackathons, on-campus interviews, and VIP events.

What You Bring

4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience owning university, campus, intern or early-career hiring.
Strong organizational mindset–this role is high volume and pressure, juggling multiple workstreams and candidates that you’ll have to manage.
Willingness to travel up to 25%, concentrated during fall and spring recruiting seasons.

Nice to Have

Existing relationships with top CS, ML and engineering programs, research labs or competitive programming communities (ICPC, USACO, etc.).

How we rate this

University Recruiter at Perplexity rates 21 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.