Early Career Talent Acquisition Lead

Location: New York

Job Description

Requisition ID94398

Department Human Resources Job Function Human Resources Location New  York,New York,United States Role Location Designation Hybrid - 3 days per week Location Designation:
Hybrid - 3 days per week

Be part of a dynamic team shaping the future of talent at New York Life. As part of Human Resources, you'll contribute to a comprehensive strategy that attracts, develops, and retains top talent. Whether it's identifying future leaders, crafting engaging learning experiences, or fostering a vibrant workplace culture, your work directly empowers individuals and fuels the company's growth. Join us and play a vital role in making New York Life a destination employer for generations to come.

Position Overview:

New York Life is seeking an experienced and dynamic Early Career Talent Acquisition Lead to help shape, scale, and execute our early career recruiting strategy, with a primary focus on internship hiring and early career full-time roles. This high-impact individual contributor role will partner closely with the Head of Programmatic Recruitment to drive recruiting excellence, operational consistency, and an exceptional candidate experience across the early career talent lifecycle.

The successful candidate will be passionate about attracting top student and emerging talent, building long-term campus and candidate relationships, creating engaging recruiting experiences, and using data and technology to improve outcomes. This role will collaborate closely with hiring managers, HR business partners, recruiters, business program managers, university partners, and internal ambassadors to support the recruitment, selection, offer, onboarding, and conversion of future interns and early career talent.

This role will also serve as a key operational leader by driving recruitment reporting, dashboard development, market insights, process governance, and continuous improvement. As the early career function continues to evolve, this role offers the opportunity to grow into people leadership while helping build a best-in-class early talent recruiting engine for New York Life.

What You'll Do:

Recruiting Strategy & Execution:

Co-own the development and execution of New York Life’s early career recruiting strategy for internship and early career full-time hiring.

Own full-cycle recruitment activities for assigned internship and early career roles, including sourcing, screening, interview process support, offer coordination, onboarding partnership, and conversion tracking.

Create and execute talent pipeline strategies through targeted outreach, campus partnerships, digital engagement, and year-round candidate nurturing.

Drive consistency across recruiting processes, interview practices, selection tools, and candidate experiences.

Design and manage multi-channel engagement campaigns to promote the New York Life brand on college campuses through social media, live events, virtual events, and recruiting platforms.

Campus Engagement & Relationship Management:

Build and foster relationships with key stakeholders, including HR business partners, hiring managers, recruiters, business program managers, college and university representatives, student organizations, and career centers.

Lead and oversee the college and university engagement strategy, ensuring the appropriate balance between virtual and in-person recruitment efforts.

Represent New York Life at campus recruiting events, networking opportunities, conferences, and student engagement programs to strengthen employer brand awareness.

Build and nurture long-term student talent communities, maintaining engagement with high-potential candidates before, during, and after formal recruiting cycles.

Partner with business leaders, former interns, employee ambassadors, and program alumni to strengthen New York Life’s campus presence and create authentic candidate touchpoints.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

Partner closely with recruiters to ensure consistent execution of early career recruiting strategies and hiring processes.

Collaborate with the Head of Programmatic Recruitment on recruiting strategy, operational planning, stakeholder alignment, and…