Principal Program Manager: Emerging Talent Strategy (North America)

About the role

As part of Intuit’s People & Places organization, we are stewards of our greatest strategic asset: our people. Our mission is to build a high-performing organization that fuels innovation and delivers on Intuit’s Bold 2030 ambitions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and Own the North America School Strategy

• Design and lead a multi-year Emerging Talent ecosystem strategy aligned to Intuit’s long-term business vision and future skill demands
• Define and continuously evolve Intuit's university portfolio across North America, identifying priority institutions based on skill alignment, performance outcomes, geographic strategy, and long-term supply modeling
• Develop strategic investment frameworks to guide campus engagement, sponsorships, partnerships, and experiential programs
• Translate business hiring forecasts into forward-looking campus pipeline strategies that anticipate talent needs 1-3 years ahead
• Present strategy, investment rationale, and outcomes to senior executive stakeholders, securing alignment and sponsorship

• Build Deep, Executive-Level University Partnerships

• Serve as Intuit’s primary point of contact for priority universities and academic partners
• Cultivate long-term, high-impact relationships with university leadership, faculty, research groups, and career services
• Design differentiated partnership models beyond traditional campus recruiting — including:
• Executive engagement on campus
• Curriculum influence and advisory boards
• Research collaborations
• AI-focused partnerships and innovation forums
• Strategic hackathons and experiential programs
• Represent Intuit at flagship external events, strengthening our presence within key technical and emerging skill communities
• Elevate Intuit’s employer brand through thoughtful, integrated campus engagement in partnership with Talent Marketing

• Align Strategy to Hiring Outcomes and Program Performance

• Partner closely with the Emerging Talent Delivery team to ensure school strategy translates into measurable hiring outcomes
• Monitor and analyze key ecosystem health indicators including:
• Application and lead generation by school
• Conversion rates from school engagement to intern/co-op/FTE hires
• Funnel performance patterns by institution and background
• Quality of hire and retention trends
• Identify performance patterns and recalibrate school investments based on data insights
• Design strategies to strengthen intern-to-full-time conversion and long-term talent retention from priority schools
• Ensure alignment between school strategy and both Tech and Non-Tech early career hiring needs across the enterprise

• Drive Cross-Functional and Global Alignment

• Partner with senior leaders across Engineering, Product, AI, Sales, Finance, Legal, and other domains to align campus strategy with evolving capability demands
• Collaborate with Finance, HR Business Partners, Workforce Planning, and BizOps to align long-term talent supply to business growth plans
• Operate as a thought partner to peer Program leaders responsible for Intern/Co-op experience and Full-Time Early Career programming to ensure seamless integration across the early talent lifecycle
• Collaborate with global counterparts to share best practices and align where appropriate on global ecosystem strategy

• Champion AI-Forward and Future Skill Strategy

• Ensure Intuit’s university partnerships reflect our AI-first direction, embedding AI capability development into campus strategy across technical and non-technical domains
• Identify emerging skills and future-of-work trends, proactively evolving school partnerships to reflect changing capability demands
• Build proactive pipelines in high-demand and emerging domains and skills

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in early career, schools strategy / partnerships, university recruiting, or talent ecosystem strategy within a technology-driven organization
• Subject matter expertise in North America university engagement strategy and scaled early career pipeline design
• Demonstrated experience designing multi-year campus portfolio strategies tied to business growth and skill evolution
• Executive presence with experience influencing senior leaders (VP+ level) and presenting strategic investment cases
• Proven ability to build and manage high-impact university partnerships beyond traditional recruiting models
• Strong analytical capability with experience using data to assess pipeline health, school performance, and long-term ROI of campus investments
• Experience aligning early career strategy to emerging skill domains
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor, influencing across matrixed teams
• Experience collaborating across global teams is a bonus