[Hiring] Graduate Recruiter @Valarian Technologies Limited

Role Description

As a Graduate Recruiter, you will oversee early-careers recruitment across the entire business—spanning operations, commercial, strategy, product, growth, and core departments. Operating remotely, your primary focus will be leveraging established university relationships across the UK to build consistent pipelines of top graduate talent.

This role requires someone who deeply understands the higher education landscape and knows how to navigate university networks, career centers, and student organizations to position Valarian as an employer of choice.

• End-to-End Early Careers Hiring: Manage full-lifecycle graduate, intern, and entry-level recruitment across all business functions.
• University Relationship Management: Build, expand, and maintain deep strategic relationships with top universities, career departments, academic heads, and student societies.
• Nationwide Campus Strategy: Design and execute targeted campus attraction campaigns, attending career fairs, guest lectures, and university networking sessions across the UK.
• Selection & Assessment: Own the evaluation processes, including CV screening, interviews, assessment, and pipeline.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Partner closely with leadership and team leads to map out hiring needs, define candidate profiles, and deliver efficient recruitment drives.
• Candidate Experience & Analytics: Deliver an engaging candidate journey from initial campus touchpoints through to offer acceptance and remote onboarding, while tracking pipeline conversion metrics.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience and established ties with Oxford, Cambridge, Russell Group universities, and top global higher-education networks.
• Proven background in running full-lifecycle early-careers or graduate hiring campaigns.
• Skill in identifying high-potential candidates across diverse academic backgrounds—seeking out high agency, analytical power, and strong execution ability.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills to represent Valarian compellingly to students, academic partners, and internal leadership.
• Highly self-motivated and structured, capable of managing national university partnerships and hiring workflows independently in a remote environment.

Benefits

• Equity – because you have the right to own what you’re building.
• A competitive salary – because we value your unique skills.
• Employer pension contributions – because you deserve a secure future.
• Private health insurance - because your health is important to us.
• Hybrid work setup – because everyone has different needs.
• Rewarding company retreats and meetups that respect your work/life balance – because we love getting to know each other!