Associate

About the Role

At Levin, our Associate Academy is designed for graduates and early-career professionals looking for structured training, hands-on coaching, and a clear career path. No recruitment experience is required – we'll teach you everything you need to become a successful consultant. From day one, you'll receive structured training, ongoing coaching and mentorship, a clear performance-based progression pathway, uncapped earning potential, and real responsibility.

Who We Are

Founded in 2019, Levin has grown into a specialist technology recruitment business operating across FinTech, HealthTech, and Energy & Infrastructure. Our mission is to connect high-growth technology companies with the talent they need to scale. We invest heavily in our Associates through structured training, hands-on coaching, recruitment technology, and clear progression pathways.

Key Responsibilities

As an Associate, you’ll learn the full 360 recruitment process. This involves:

• Building relationships with senior-level tech executives.
• Partnering with technology companies.
• Managing the journey from first conversation through to successful placement.
• Developing expertise within a specialist technology market.

You’ll be trained to:

• Find and engage top talent using LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, CRM tools, market mapping, and phone outreach.
• Build client relationships with hiring leaders at technology companies, understanding their talent needs and showcasing how Levin can help solve their hiring challenges.
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process by acting as a trusted advisor, providing market insight, coordinating interviews, supporting candidate preparation, and delivering successful hiring outcomes.
• Develop commercial skills across business development, negotiation, account management, and market research, using those insights to build strong client partnerships and support successful hiring.

Requirements & Tech Stack

We’re looking for recent or upcoming graduates, ideally from the Classes of 2023–2026, who are excited to build a career in a fast-paced, people-focused, commercial environment. You could be a great fit if you are:

• Ambitious, resilient, and motivated by clear goals.
• A confident communicator who enjoys building relationships.
• Curious about business, technology, sales, or people.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, target-driven, high-energy office environment.
• Excited by performance-based progression and earning potential.
• Coachable, self-motivated, and open to feedback.
• Comfortable learning new technologies and proactively using tools such as Outlook, Teams, and other workplace platforms.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities.

No prior recruitment experience is required – sales, customer service, leadership, athletics, hospitality, fundraising, or campus involvement can all be relevant experience.

Location

• Manhattan, New York, NY 10017 (full-time, in-office)

Offerings

• Compensation & Benefits:
• $55,000 base salary, non-exempt, plus uncapped commission (expected first year OTE: $70,000+; top performers: $100,000+).
• Performance-based promotions, with first promotion typically around 10–12 months; top 3 performers to Management (3rd promotion) in 18 months.
• 401K, Health and Dental Insurance, FSA & Commuter Benefits.
• 20 vacation days, 9 national holidays, company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year, Corporate Social Responsibility day, and birthday off.
• Gym discounts through WellHub from day 1.
• Performance-based relocation opportunities and potential equity for top performers.
• Employee Resource Groups: Parity and Nexus.
• Target-based incentives: international vacations, amazing restaurants, group activities, & more.
• Levin Ambassadors Initiative (early mentorship opportunity).
• Working Hours:
• 9am-6pm Monday-Thursday.
• 9am-3pm Friday.
• Wednesday WFH after your first four weeks.