Emerging Talent Recruiter

Role Description

We are looking for an Emerging Talent Recruiter to join us as a contractor to support our upcoming busy fall university recruiting season, with the potential for extension beyond that. In this role, you will play a key part in discovering and hiring the next generation of builders at Zipline. You will manage full-cycle recruiting for various early-career roles, while also planning and facilitating engaging recruiting events at universities and technical competitions. This is a hands-on, fast-paced contract position perfect for someone who excels at candidate engagement, event logistics, and building strong, collaborative partnerships with hiring managers during our peak hiring season.

We prefer to have someone work out of our South San Francisco Headquarters, but we're open to remote for the right person!

What You'll Do

• Full-Cycle Recruiting: Manage the end-to-end recruitment process for various internship roles, ensuring an efficient, high-touch, and inclusive experience for every candidate.
• Event Planning & Execution: Strategize, plan, and facilitate engaging university events, tech talks, hackathons, and competition sponsorships that elevate Zipline’s brand visibility.
• Stakeholder & Manager Management: Build trusted partnerships with hiring managers and business leaders to align on hiring needs, define role requirements, and guide them through interview loops and candidate selection.
• On-Campus & Event Representation: Travel to universities and key industry competitions to engage directly with students, pitch Zipline's mission, and proactively source top-tier talent.
• Data & Pipeline Tracking: Keep recruiting data clean and up-to-date in our ATS (Applicant Tracking System), providing regular updates on pipeline health and event ROI to recruiting leadership.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience dedicated to university, early career, or emerging talent recruiting, preferably within a fast-paced tech or engineering environment.
• Demonstrated experience planning, organizing, and executing creative on-campus or virtual recruiting events and managing logistics seamlessly.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence, guide, and build strong relationships with hiring managers and cross-functional teams.
• Ability and excitement to travel domestically (primarily during peak university recruiting seasons) to attend career fairs, competitions, and campus events.
• A passion for delivering an empathetic, transparent, and stellar experience to early-career candidates navigating the job market.
• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple high-volume pipelines and moving event timelines simultaneously.

Requirements

• Zipline is unable to sponsor work visas for applicants to this position.
• The starting cash range for this contractor position is $60.00 - $65.00 / hour. Please note that this is a target, starting cash range for a candidate who meets the minimum qualifications for this role. The final cash pay for this role will depend on a variety of factors, including a specific candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and working location.

Benefits

• Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.
• Zipline is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your point of contact at Zipline know if you require any accommodations throughout your interview process.