The Talent Outreach Manager accelerates NetApp’s early‑in‑career hiring strategy by building high‑impact partnerships with top universities and non‑traditional talent sources. In this highly visible role, you serve as a NetApp ambassador—designing data‑driven outreach strategies, leveraging AI‑enabled tools, and delivering programs that strengthen our brand and build diverse candidate pipelines across internships and full‑time early in career roles.
- Own relationships with career centres, faculty, student organisations, and key campus stakeholders across partner schools in India and APAC
- Develop and execute university recruiting strategies informed by market insight, AI-enabled sourcing, competitive benchmarking, and school performance data
- Build diverse early-in-career pipelines by designing outreach that engages women, underrepresented talent, and high-potential students earlier in their academic journey
- Plan and deliver high-impact campus and virtual events, including career fairs, tech talks, club engagements, interviews, and student programmes
- Create and maintain school scorecards, dashboards, ROI analyses, and brand sentiment insights to continuously refine partnership strategy
- Lead campus ambassador teams, including executive sponsors, alumni, interns, recruiters, and programme partners, to ensure consistent brand presence and execution
- Act as a trusted point of contact for internal stakeholders and external university partners, ensuring smooth collaboration, preparation, event delivery, and follow-up
- Support the planning and execution of NetApp’s apprenticeship programme, ensuring compliance with Indian government regulations; travel as needed for in-person recruiting and relationship development
- Previous university or college recruiting experience is highly preferred but not mandatory.
- Strong skills in planning, project management, and operational execution are essential and will be evaluated during the interview process.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) is required.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders is important.
- Flexibility to work varied hours based on event and campus schedules is necessary.
- Willingness to travel across India for multiple events throughout the year is expected.
- Proven ability to leverage AI tools and data analytics to inform strategy and assess performance.
- Outstanding communication skills and a genuine passion for providing an exceptional candidate and partner experience are vital.
At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
Why You'll Thrive at NetApp
At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.
NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.
Our culture
We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.
Submitting an Application
To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.
AI Disclosure
For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.
