Emerging Talent Recruiter (Contract)

Emerging Talent Recruiter

Would you enjoy recruiting interns and co-ops from universities across North America? Join us on a 6-month contract based in Cambridge, MA. 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 university relations and our global internship and new graduate programs. By connecting emerging professionals with career development opportunities, our team impacts hiring and diversity initiatives at Akamai.

Partner with the best.

Manage the internship recruitment lifecycle from launch to offer and onboarding. Partnering with universities, you'll recruit technical and nontechnical talent for our co-op and intern programs in North America. You'll also collaborate with our global team to support day-to-day program operations and deliver exciting events for students. Our team also engages in online branding and collaborative project work where you can make an impact.

This is a 6-month contract position starting in November 2025. This role is remote-friendly but does require you be in person in Cambridge 2-4 times monthly.

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

• Full-cycle recruitment to include : sourcing, interviewing, debriefs and offer negotiation.
• Planning, attending, and executing programming for interns and co-ops both virtual and onsite in Cambridge.
• Establishing meaningful partnerships with hiring teams to quickly assess business needs and launch a thorough hiring strategy.
• Building and maintaining effective candidate relationships across countries in North America.
• Administering the US co-op program including performance reviews, orientations, and merchandise management.
• Collaborating regularly with global Emerging Talent team on group projects.
• Documenting internal processes and procedures, maintaining internal web pages and recruiting tools

Do what you love.

To be successful in this role you will :

Work in a way that works for you.

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

This position will require that you occasionally come onsite to our Cambridge, MA office to run programming with students, or attend local recruitment events.

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you.

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Financial benefits offered to contractors, including a 401k and health insurance, are offered through our managed service provider (MSP).

About us.

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us.

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you! Akamai Technologies is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race / ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status. If no date is displayed, applications are being accepted on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.