Associate

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

About the role

Ready to start a career where your ambition, communication skills, and hard work directly influence your progression and earnings? 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. Founded in 2019, Levin has grown from a three-person start-up into a specialist technology recruitment business operating across FinTech, HealthTech, and Energy & Infrastructure through our brands Storm2, Storm3, and Storm4. We connect some of the world's fastest-growing technology companies with exceptional talent, while building exceptional careers for our people. Our mission is to connect high-growth technology companies with the talent they need to scale. To do that, we invest heavily in our Associates through structured training, hands-on coaching, recruitment technology, and clear progression pathways.

Responsibilities

• 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

• Recent or upcoming graduates, ideally from the Classes of 2023–2026.
• Ambitious, resilient, and motivated by clear goals.
• 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 required – sales, customer service, leadership, athletics, hospitality, fundraising, or campus involvement can all be relevant experience.

Pay

$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 first promotion typically around 10–12 months, top 3 performers to Management (3rd promotion) in 18 months.

Benefits

• 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)