Head of Early Career Recruiting

Job details

Work model

On-site

Salary

$200,000 – $300,000 per year

Location

New York

Company website

www.checkout.com

Hiring context

How this role compares at Polymarket

Polymarket has 77 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 10 job families, and 1 of them is in people & hr. 55 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 71%.

This role's posted range of $200,000 – $300,000 per year sits above 39% of the 54 other Polymarket roles quoted over the same currency and period.

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What the role asks for

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Job description

ABOUT POLYMARKET Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized “house,” Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future. We’re growing fast - both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire. ABOUT THE ROLE Polymarket is looking for a Head of Early Career Recruiting to build our university recruiting and internship programs from the ground up. You’ll own our strategy for attracting exceptional early-career talent across engineering, product, design, and business functions - from our presence on campus through internship and full-time conversion. This is a high-ownership, highly visible role. You’ll build the systems, experiences, and team needed to make Polymarket a standout destination for exceptional early-career talent. You’ll combine strong operational rigor with creativity and cultural fluency to figure out how Polymarket should show up on campus. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own our campus recruiting strategy - build a year-round plan for target schools, hackathons, career fairs, partnerships, and other early-talent channels, including budget, staffing, travel, and ROI - Build Polymarket’s campus presence - create a distinctive, repeatable playbook for how we show up on campus, from event strategy and activations to candidate capture and follow-up - Launch and run our internship program - build a structured, high-quality experience from recruiting through onboarding, programming, manager enablement, and full-time conversion - Build the recruiting infrastructure - design scalable application, assessment, screening, and interview workflows that surface the strongest candidates and make it easy for hiring teams to engage them - Partner with senior leaders and hiring managers across engineering, product, design, legal, finance, marketing, and other functions to plan headcount, define hiring needs, and build effective early-career pipelines - Build and lead the team - hire and manage a small early-career recruiting team as the program scales, while setting the operating standards and culture for the function - Represent Polymarket externally - bring the right engineers, product leaders, designers, and business leaders into our campus strategy and build relationships with students, faculty, and university communities - Use data and judgment to iterate - measure pipeline quality, conversion, event ROI, and program performance to continuously improve our approach WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - 5–10+ years of experience building or scaling campus recruiting, university talent, early-career, or similarly complex talent programs - Track record of building systems and programs from the ground up - you’re as comfortable designing the infrastructure as you are executing against it - Exceptional operational rigor and project management skills, with the ability to own a large budget, coordinate many moving pieces, and move quickly - Strong executive presence and communication skills - you’re comfortable representing Polymarket externally and influencing senior stakeholders internally - Cultural fluency and strong taste - you know how to create campus experiences that feel relevant, energetic, and distinctly Polymarket - Ability to work across technical and business functions without needing to be the subject-matter expert for every role - A builder’s mindset - you thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and aren’t afraid to experiment and iterate - Experience with hackathons, technical talent communities, or other creative university recruiting channels is a plus - Experience at a startup, high-growth technology company, or consulting/strategy environment is a plus BENEFITS - Competitive salary & equity - Unlimited PTO - Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage - 401k match - Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories PAY TRANSPARENCY Base salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually, plus equity and benefits. This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.