Overview

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.

We are seeking a Principal Program Manager to architect and lead Intuit’s Emerging Talent school and ecosystem strategy across North America. This role will define and evolve our multi-year university engagement strategy to ensure we are building durable, future-forward pipelines of early career talent across technical and non-technical domains.

As the subject matter expert in early career strategy, you will design the North America university portfolio, shape long-term campus investment decisions, and cultivate deep partnerships with institutions that align to Intuit’s evolving skill needs — particularly across AI, Engineering, Product, and innovation-critical capabilities. You will operate at the intersection of talent strategy, employer brand, executive engagement, and workforce foresight.

This role requires a strategic systems thinker who can translate long-term business vision into actionable campus ecosystem design — and who can influence senior leaders (VP of Talent Acquisition, CTO staff, executive stakeholders) to align on bold, forward-looking investments in early talent.

If you are energized by building long-term talent ecosystems, forging executive-level university partnerships, and shaping the future workforce of a technology-driven company — this role is for you.

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
• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor, influencing across matrixed teams
• Experience collaborating across global teams is a bonus
  
  

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at [1] Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is: Bay Area California $194,000- 262,000 References Visible links 1. https://www.intuit.com/careers/benefits/full-time-employees/