Emerging Talent Representative

Would you enjoy recruiting early career roles across AMS?

Are you a collaborator looking to work on a global team?

Join the Akamai Emerging Talent team

We identify, engage, and recruit exceptional early career professionals in our industry to support our global business. The Emerging Talent team supervises both university relations and events, including our global internship and new graduate programs. By connecting early career professionals with career development opportunities, our team impacts the future of talent at Akamai.

Partner with the best

On this role, you'll manage the internship recruitment lifecycle from launch to offer and onboarding. You'll be partnering with universities across the U.S., Canada, and more. You'll also collaborate with our global team to support day-to-day program operations and deliver social and career development events for students. You'll also collaborate with our marketing team to brand Akamai as a top landing spot for students.

As an Emerging Talent Representative, you will be responsible for:

• Full-cycle recruitment, including: sourcing, interviewing, debriefs, and offer negotiation
• Planning, attending, and executing programming for interns
• Establishing meaningful partnerships with hiring teams to assess business needs and launch a thorough hiring strategy
• Building and maintaining effective candidate relationships across countries in AMS
• Managing the performance review, orientation, and offboarding practices for interns
• Documenting internal processes and procedures, maintaining internal web pages and recruiting tools

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience in Talent Acquisition team
• Show exceptional communication skills ability to handle discussions with tact and diplomacy on a global team
• Have prior experience planning or leading events (bonus if experience with recruitment)
• Show an ability to multitask in a busy, dynamic environment.
• Demonstrate customer service and consulting skills with all levels of stakeholders in the recruiting process.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $65,700 - $118,300/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.