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Early Careers Lead/Program Manager

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About Fluidstack

Technology is the most important tool humans have found for improving the human condition, but it is not a default good. It is a lever for ideology.

Today the most powerful technology in history is being built: machines that solve problems better than humans can. The most important mission of our generation is to imbue AI with democratic values: error-correcting institutions, freedom of speech, individual liberties. AI trains and runs on massive compute clusters. Whichever ideology builds the infrastructure the fastest is the ideology that will endure. Democracy is delicate and won't survive this technology by default.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

How We Operate

  • Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.

  • Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.

  • Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.

  • Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

  • Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

The Talent Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

  • Deploy AI across the entire funnel: sourcing, screening, scheduling, and analysis run on AI, so a small team moves like a large one.

  • Treat talent as the critical path: every team's ability to hit its goals is gated on hiring, so recruiting is the constraint the whole company watches.

  • Build a brand the best want to join: make Fluidstack a place exceptional people seek out, not one they have to be convinced about.

Role Scope

  • Build Fluidstack's early careers function from zero: own the strategy, stand up the infrastructure, and run full-cycle recruiting for intern and new graduate roles across technical and non-technical teams.

  • Design and execute a university recruiting strategy by identifying the highest-signal target schools, building relationships with faculty and student organizations, and establishing Fluidstack's brand on the campuses where the most ambitious early-career talent concentrates.

  • Co-design internship and new graduate programs with TA, Compensation, and TA Ops, then own adoption end to end: getting programs embedded and running across the business, not just built and handed off.

  • Plan and execute on-campus and virtual recruiting events with a focus on early engagement, education, and brand, making Fluidstack a name the most ambitious students seek out before we ever post a req.

  • Screen early-career candidates at a high bar: assess intellectual horsepower, mission alignment, and potential, not credentials, and make long-term bets with the judgment to back them.

  • Track pipeline health, conversion rates, offer acceptance, and source quality across programs, and use that data to sharpen strategy and report results to leadership.

  • Build the hiring infrastructure, rubrics, evaluation frameworks, and program playbooks, that creates a sustainable early talent funnel as Fluidstack scales.

What We're Looking For

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

  • You've built or materially scaled a university recruiting program and can point to specific outcomes: schools entered, pipelines built, conversion rates improved.

  • You think in programs, not reqs: you design for the long term, building relationships and pipelines that compound over time, not just this semester's headcount.

  • You hold an uncompromising bar for early talent: you know the difference between a strong GPA and genuine potential, and you evaluate accordingly.

  • You create structure from ambiguity and write the playbook yourself rather than waiting for one.

  • You measure what matters, pipeline conversion, source quality, intern-to-FTE conversion, and use it to make better decisions rather than just report activity.

  • Bonus: University recruiting in AI, infrastructure, or deep-technical markets. Building early careers programs at high-growth or zero-to-one companies. Employer brand strategy for campus. Willingness to travel during peak recruiting cycles.

Salary & Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).

  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.

  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

Total compensation may also include equity in the form of restricted stock units.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email careers@fluidstack.io with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

Compensation

$209K – $263K • Offers Equity

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