Graduate Recruiter

Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company building critical tools to safeguard the future in an era of evolving global security challenges. We're rethinking security beyond traditional military domains, addressing asymmetric threats that impact our technological advantage, economic strength, and democratic institutions.

We build Acra – the platform foundation for everything we do as a dual-use technology company. The platform’s name, rooted in the Greek word for citadel (or, fortress), reflects the design and purpose of our infrastructure-agnostic secure enclaves: protecting critical data. Some of the government and commercial workflows include: increased operational resiliency for mission-critical systems and functions; enabling organisations to more quickly and widely adopt emerging technologies while ensuring the integrity of their intellectual property; information flow during disaster response scenarios, and zero-trust / least-privilege environments for M&A, attorney-client privileged communications, etc. And we’ve only scratched the surface.

At our core, we're driven by a shared mission and a belief in making a tangible impact on our world. Whether you join our London HQ or the wider global organisation, you’ll be a part of collaborative, high-performing teams, creating cutting-edge software, platforms, and infrastructure.

The Role

As a Graduate Recruiter, you will oversee early-careers recruitment across the entire business—spanning operations, commercial, strategy, product, growth, and core departments. Operating remotely, your primary focus will be leveraging established university relationships across the UK to build consistent pipelines of top graduate talent.

This role requires someone who deeply understands the higher education landscape and knows how to navigate university networks, career centers, and student organizations to position Valarian as an employer of choice.

What you’ll do:

• End-to-End Early Careers Hiring: Manage full-lifecycle graduate, intern, and entry-level recruitment across all business functions.
• University Relationship Management: Build, expand, and maintain deep strategic relationships with top universities, career departments, academic heads, and student societies.
• Nationwide Campus Strategy: Design and execute targeted campus attraction campaigns, attending career fairs, guest lectures, and university networking sessions across the UK.
• Selection & Assessment: Own the evaluation processes, including CV screening, interviews, assessment, and pipeline.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Partner closely with leadership and team leads to map out hiring needs, define candidate profiles, and deliver efficient recruitment drives.
• Candidate Experience & Analytics: Deliver an engaging candidate journey from initial campus touchpoints through to offer acceptance and remote onboarding, while tracking pipeline conversion metrics.

What we are looking for:

• Oxford, Cambridge & Russell Group Focus: Demonstrated experience and established ties with Oxford, Cambridge, Russell Group universities, and top global higher-education networks.
• Graduate Recruiting Track Record: Proven background in running full-lifecycle early-careers or graduate hiring campaigns.
• Broad Candidate Evaluation: Skill in identifying high-potential candidates across diverse academic backgrounds—seeking out high agency, analytical power, and strong execution ability.
• Communication & Influence: Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills to represent Valarian compellingly to students, academic partners, and internal leadership.
• Remote Autonomy: Highly self-motivated and structured, capable of managing national university partnerships and hiring workflows independently in a remote environment.

Benefits:

• Equity – because you have the right to own what you’re building
• A competitive salary – because we value your unique skills
• Employer pension contributions – because you deserve a secure future
• Private health insurance - because your health is important to us
• Hybrid work setup – because everyone has different needs
• Rewarding company retreats and meetups that respect your work/life balance – because we love getting to know each other!

Life at Valarian

Our culture is built on inclusivity, compassion and flexibility – we want everyone to be empowered to achieve their goals at Valarian.

The work we do is vital, but so are the connections that make it happen. We thrive on the shared energy, spontaneous conversations, and mutual trust built when we spend time together. We operate on a hybrid model, gathering in our London office 3 days a week to support one another and collaborate.