Business Development Associate

About the Role

Levin's Associate Academy is designed for graduates and early-career professionals seeking structured training, hands-on coaching, and a clear career path in recruitment. No prior recruitment experience is necessary; all training will be provided. Associates will receive structured training, ongoing coaching, mentorship, performance-based progression, uncapped earning potential, and real responsibility from day one.

What You’ll Be Doing

As an Associate, you will learn the full 360 recruitment process. This includes:

• Building relationships with senior-level tech executives.
• Partnering with technology companies.
• Managing the recruitment journey from initial contact to successful placement.
• Developing expertise within a specialist technology market, becoming a trusted consultant to clients and candidates.

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 presenting Levin's solutions.
• 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 in business development, negotiation, account management, and market research, using insights to build client partnerships and support hiring.

Requirements & Tech Stack

We are looking for recent or upcoming graduates (Classes of 2023–2026) who are eager to build a career in a fast-paced, people-focused, commercial environment.

Ideal candidates are:

• Ambitious, resilient, and motivated by clear goals.
• Confident communicators who enjoy building relationships.
• Curious about business, technology, sales, or people.
• Comfortable 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.

Prior recruitment experience is not required. Relevant experience can include sales, customer service, leadership, athletics, hospitality, fundraising, or campus involvement.

Qualifications

• Location: Manhattan, New York, NY 10017 (full-time, in-office)
• Start Date: January 19th, 2027