Early Careers Recruiter

Avalara is looking for an Early Careers Recruiter to lead campus hiring and early-in-career talent programs. This role focuses on full-cycle recruiting for interns, co-ops, and new graduates while building relationships across universities, student communities, internal leaders, and global talent acquisition teams. You will help shape diverse early talent pipelines and ensure students have a high-touch, transparent recruitment experience.

What you will do

• Drive full-cycle campus recruiting for university graduate, intern, and apprenticeship programs, covering candidate attraction and screening through interviewing, offer management, and onboarding.
• Own university relations and partnerships by building and maintaining relationships with target universities, career centers, student groups, and faculty to strengthen Avalara’s employer brand.
• Plan and execute campus events and experiential sourcing, including virtual and in-person recruitment events, tech talks, hackathons, and career fairs.
• Champion diversity and inclusion through inclusive hiring practices and sourcing strategies for entry-level pipelines.
• Partner with business leaders across Engineering, Product, and corporate hiring managers to forecast entry-level hiring needs, define role requirements, and support interview panels with best practices for assessing early talent.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate experience by guiding students through early corporate recruitment with high-touch communication, transparent feedback, and a clear narrative about early career growth at Avalara.
• Manage programs and report on metrics by tracking pipeline metrics, conversion rates, and program ROI to monitor progress and optimize recruitment strategies.

What you bring

• 3+ to 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with strong emphasis on university relations, campus recruiting, or early-in-career technical or corporate hiring.
• Proven success in building campus pipelines, organizing university outreach, and engaging high-potential student talent.
• Strong communication skills across verbal and written formats, with comfort presenting to large groups of students, campus faculty, and corporate executives.
• Organizational strength to manage high-volume candidate workflows, fast-moving interview timelines, and multiple concurrent campus events.
• Collaboration in a global environment with effective cross-functional partnership.
• Enthusiasm for coaching early-career talent, including understanding career motivations and supporting successful launches in tech and business.

Work model and role focus

• Location: Remote (hybrid)
• Focus: campus hiring, university relations, and early-in-career talent programs
• Role visibility: high-visibility, relationship-driven collaboration with university partners, student organizations, internal engineering and business leaders, and global TA teams

Benefits

• In addition to a compensation package, paid time off and paid parental leave; many employees are eligible for bonuses.
• Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Avalara supports diversity, equity, and inclusion and is committed to integrating it into business practices and organizational culture.
• 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and executive sponsorship.

AI in the role

• AI is embedded in workflows, decision-making, and products; success requires embracing AI as an essential capability.
• You will bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies and apply AI daily to business challenges.
• You will grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices and sharing what you learn.

Avalara’s platform processes over 54 billion customer API calls and over 6.6 million tax returns each year. The company describes itself as a billion dollar business continuing to advance its mission to be part of every transaction in the world.