Associate

About the Role

The Associate Academy at Levin is designed for graduates and early-career professionals seeking structured training, hands-on coaching, and a clear career path. No recruitment experience is required.

Key Responsibilities

As an Associate, you will learn the full 360 recruitment process, including:

• Building relationships with senior-level tech executives and partnering with technology companies.
• Managing the journey from initial conversation through to successful placement.
• Developing expertise within a specialist technology market to become a trusted consultant.

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

You will be trained to use:

• LinkedIn
• Job boards
• Referrals
• CRM tools
• Market mapping
• Phone outreach
• Outlook
• Teams
• Other workplace platforms

Qualifications

We are 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.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities.

No prior recruitment experience is required. Relevant experience can include sales, customer service, leadership, athletics, hospitality, fundraising, or campus involvement.

Compensation & Benefits

• $55,000 base salary, non-exempt, plus uncapped commission (expected first year OTE: $70,000-$75,000+; top performers: $100,000+).
• Performance-based promotions, with the first promotion typically around 10–12 months.
• Top 3 performers can reach 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.
• Working hours: 9am-6pm Monday-Thursday, 9am-3pm Friday.
• Wednesday WFH after the first four weeks.
• 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).

Location & Start Date

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