Early Careers Recruiter

Avalara is hiring an Early Careers Recruiter to lead campus hiring and early-in-career talent programs. This role manages full-cycle recruiting for interns, co-ops, and new graduates while partnering with universities, student organizations, internal leaders, and global TA teams to build diverse talent pipelines and support a strong candidate experience.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle campus recruiting for university graduate, intern, and apprenticeship programs, covering attraction, screening, interviewing, offer management, and onboarding.
• Build and maintain strategic university relationships with career centers, student groups, and faculty to strengthen Avalara’s employer brand on campus.
• Plan and run virtual and in-person campus recruitment activities, including tech talks, hackathons, and career fairs.
• Advance diversity and inclusion through inclusive hiring practices and sourcing strategies for entry-level pipelines.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and corporate hiring managers to forecast early-career hiring needs, clarify role requirements, and train interview panels on best practices.
• Support an exceptional candidate experience with high-touch communication, transparent feedback, and a clear narrative about early career growth at Avalara.
• Manage program performance by tracking pipeline metrics, conversion rates, and program ROI, then using results to optimize recruiting strategies.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ to 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with emphasis on university relations, campus recruiting, or early-in-career technical or corporate hiring.
• Demonstrated success building campus pipelines, organizing university outreach, and engaging high-potential student talent.
• Strong communication skills across verbal and written channels, with comfort presenting to large student groups, campus faculty, and corporate executives.
• Excellent organization skills to manage high-volume candidate workflows, fast-moving interview timelines, and multiple concurrent campus schedules.
• Experience working in collaborative, global teams with effective cross-functional stakeholder partnership.
• Genuine interest in coaching early-career talent, understanding career motivations, and helping them launch successful paths in tech and business.

Benefits

• Paid time off and paid parental leave.
• Many employees are eligible for bonuses in addition to a great compensation package.
• Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Strong support for diversity, equity, and inclusion, with a commitment to integrating them 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.
• Successful candidates bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies and can apply AI to business challenges.
• The role includes applying AI every day to improve efficiency, contribute solutions, and drive results for the team, company, and customers.
• Growth with AI is encouraged through curiosity about new trends and best practices, and by sharing learnings with others.

What You Will Do

• Drive campus hiring, university relations, and early-in-career talent programs as a primary champion for attracting and hiring interns, co-ops, and new graduates.
• Build robust, diverse early talent pipelines through close partnerships with university partners, student organizations, internal engineering and business leaders, and global TA teams.
• Work in a hybrid setup. #LI-Hybrid

Company Context

• Avalara provides a cloud compliance platform that 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 and emphasizes continued progress toward its mission to be part of every transaction in the world.