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# University Recruiter at Nooks

- **Company:** Nooks
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nooks/0a3dc190-ce7e-4f2c-8080-041e2f7c4932

## Job description

About [Nooks.ai](http://Nooks.ai): Nooks is an applied AI lab building the Agent Workspace for GTM. We design AI agents that operate across the full sales action set, from account strategy to prospect research and outreach. Building 0→1 has never been easier, but selling at the speed of the market remains the last frontier for AI. Our mission is to 10x every seller by automating the busywork so they can focus on what humans do best: closing deals.

Today, over 1,500 customers run on Nooks, including Notion, HubSpot, Cursor, and Rippling. We’ve raised $70M+ from top VCs like Kleiner Perkins, which made its first sales-tech investment in over a decade with us. Since then, we’ve tripled ARR each year for 3 years running and grown a high-caliber team turning the art of sales into a scalable science.

## The Role

This is a builder role. You'll own every aspect of Nooks' early talent strategy—from developing our university brand to hiring our annual class of exceptional new graduate software engineers. You'll create the programs, partnerships, and recruiting engine that make Nooks a destination for the best engineering students. During the off-season, you may help out with industry engineering hiring while still maintaining continual growth of our new grad programs. This isn't simply campus recruiting. You'll design the entire experience: identifying target schools, building faculty and student relationships, creating memorable events, running the recruiting process, and ensuring every new graduate has an outstanding experience from first interaction through onboarding. Success means establishing Nooks as one of the most sought-after engineering employers on campus while consistently hiring 8–10 exceptional new graduate software engineers annually from a focused set of 4–6 top computer science programs.

## What You'll Do

- Own Nooks' end-to-end university recruiting strategy and execution.
- Develop a focused campus strategy across 4–6 top engineering universities.
- Build long-term relationships with career centers, professors, student organizations, and influential campus communities.
- Create Nooks' employer brand for early talent through events, technical talks, hackathons, sponsorships, social content, and student engagement.
- Design and manage our annual new graduate recruiting program, including sourcing, interview scheduling, offer management, and candidate experience.
- Partner closely with Engineering leadership to define hiring goals, interview processes, and evaluation standards.
- Build internship and new graduate recruiting programs that scale with the company.
- Create exceptional candidate experiences that reflect Nooks' culture and values.
- Plan and execute campus visits, information sessions, technical events, and networking opportunities.
- Track recruiting metrics and continuously improve conversion rates throughout the hiring funnel.
- Own recruiting operations, timelines, budgets, and vendor relationships related to university hiring.
- Partner with People Operations to help create an outstanding onboarding and early career experience.

## What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of recruiting experience with significant ownership of university or early career hiring.
- Experience building or scaling campus recruiting programs at a high-growth technology company.
- Proven success hiring top engineering talent from leading universities.
- Strong understanding of engineering recruiting and technical hiring.
- Experience building employer branding initiatives that resonate with technical students.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills with both internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to run multiple recruiting initiatives simultaneously.
- Analytical mindset with experience using recruiting metrics to improve outcomes.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and building programs from scratch.
- Passion for helping exceptional early-career talent launch their careers.

You'll Thrive If You...

- Love building programs where none exist today.
- Enjoy creating memorable candidate experiences.
- Think strategically while executing every detail.
- Build trusted relationships quickly.
- Are energized by representing an exciting company externally.
- Care deeply about hiring quality over hiring volume.
- Want to have a lasting impact on how a company attracts its future engineering leaders.

Success in Your First Year

- Establish Nooks as a recognized engineering employer across 4–6 target universities.
- Hire an exceptional class of 8–10 new graduate software engineers.
- Build repeatable recruiting programs and campus partnerships that scale.
- Launch signature employer branding initiatives that increase awareness and applicant quality.
- Create a recruiting experience candidates consistently rave about.
- Develop the foundation for a world-class early talent program that grows with the company.

## Why This Role Matters

The engineers we hire today will become the technical leaders of Nooks tomorrow. You'll have the opportunity to build a program that shapes the future of our engineering organization and creates one of the strongest early talent brands in technology.

## Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Nooks is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe in providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Nooks does not discriminate in hiring, promotion, compensation, or any other employment practices, and we are committed to ensuring a workplace that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and join our team.

## About Nooks

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nooks is an AI-powered sales platform that automates prospecting, dialing, sequencing, and coaching to help outbound sales teams dramatically increase pipeline.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Three co-founders from Stanford – Rohan (CEO), Nikhil (CPO), Dan (CTO) – first names referenced on the careers page; full names not publicly disclosed.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered sales automation (Sales Tech)
- **Target customers**: B2B, from SMB to Enterprise; focused on Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) and Business Development Representatives (BDRs)
- **Mission**: Democratize growth and turn every company into a 10x sales engine (careers page)

## Products & Services
- **AI Dialer**: Parallel dialing that triples connects per day; automatically detects live answers, skips phone trees and bad numbers so reps focus on conversations.
- **AI Sequencing**: Multi-channel sequences (calls, emails, social) that auto-update based on account activity and intent signals; AI personalization crafts hyper-personalized openers.
- **AI Coaching**: Analyzes call transcripts to score performance, flag coaching moments, and automate feedback loops – acts as a 24/7 coach.
- **List-building**: Build targeted lists using firmographics, first-party data, and live buying signals (not just static filters).
- **AI Signals & Research**: Unmatched insight from CRM, call transcripts, social media, and the web; surfaces what matters to each account.
- **Virtual Salesfloor**: Real-time collaboration environment where sales teams work together while prospecting; managers can listen in, see transcripts, and give live feedback.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $70M total funding raised; $43M Series B announced approximately 2 years ago (CB Insights)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by leading venture capital firms (specific names not listed in provided sources); integrations with common sales tools (CRM, etc.)
- **Growth Signals**: 4X year-over-year growth; 1,000+ customers globally; 200+ person team; named among America’s best startup workplaces (Built In)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human-in-the-loop feedback**: AI agents learn from every prospect and rep interaction, becoming more autonomous and aligned with each team’s preferences.
- **Deep data unification**: Combines CRM, call transcripts, social, and web signals into one intelligence layer – eliminates silos.
- **Parallel dialer + virtual salesfloor**: Unique combination that lets reps triple outreach volume while managers coach in real time.
- **Applied AI lab approach**: Built on frontier models with structured reasoning, designed to capture and scale top-performer judgment.

## Strategic Focus
- Build AI agents that work alongside GTM teams – accelerating research, surfacing strategic moves, and executing busywork.
- Continue expanding the product suite (Sequencing, Coaching, Dialer) and scaling the customer base (currently 1,000+ customers, targeting broader enterprise adoption).
- Maintain a 4X YoY growth trajectory while deepening the platform’s autonomous capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Core values include “Extreme ownership,” “Ask why,” “Be a good person,” “Do more with less,” and “Earn customer love.” Emphasizes high integrity, speed, and ruthless prioritization.
- **Work model**: Hybrid (San Francisco HQ; some in-office presence expected per Built In). Office provides catered lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks.
- **Benefits**: Unlimited PTO, equity incentive plan, comprehensive health (medical/dental/vision), 12-week birthing / 8-week non-birthing parental leave, commuter subsidies, work-from-home stipend, annual company offsite.
- **Engineering culture**: Real-time building for real customers; “give every rep a dedicated 24/7 coach” mentality; fast iteration with high ownership; early employees can shape the platform’s core agents.

## Sources
1. [nooks.ai](https://www.nooks.ai/)
2. [nooks.ai/careers](https://www.nooks.ai/careers)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/nooks)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/nooks)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/nooksapp)

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