Executive Recruiting Researcher, Principal Engineer Recruiting

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Amazon Executive Recruiting is looking for a Research Recruiter to help the
business scale by identifying and recruiting top talent for executive level
positions. This is a high visibility role with a significant opportunity to
drive impact at the most senior levels within the organization.
This role will support hiring Principal, Senior Principal, and Distinguished
Engineers – the Company's most senior technical contributors. Members of
Amazon's Principal Engineering Community are exemplary practitioners and
pragmatic visionaries. Our Principal Engineers set the standard for engineering
excellence across Amazon. In order to scale Amazon’s Principal Engineering
Community, the team is looking for a Research Recruiter who shares a passion for
hiring the best and the brightest engineers in the world.

The Executive Recruiting team has the unique ability work across all of Amazon’s
businesses and impact each senior leadership team. The Recruiter will be
responsible for owning and executing Principal Engineer searches at all levels.
They will own relationships with senior executives and create robust hiring and
candidate development strategies. They will be expected to identify, recruit,
and hire world renowned technical candidates. This person will need to be
well-versed in all aspects of senior executive technical search, particularly
candidate identification, engagement, development, and creative sourcing. They
will work with a strong, established recruiting team of executive recruiters.

Requirements

• Research acumen and creativity; An individual who can learn new tech and product domains quickly and understand how to craft effective search strategies within those domains.
• Superb communication skills; a compelling communicator able to engage the attention of busy, senior executives.
• Self-assured, not easily thrown, able to think on your feet; this individual may be called upon to work on highly confidential searches with very senior leaders.
• Inquisitive; a strong desire to learn
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member.
• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of passive candidate generation experience
• Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high-tech market
• Several years of experience advising and influencing executive leadership

Nice To Haves

• Exhibits excellent judgment Hires great people. Develops great people. Has relentlessly high standards
• Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
• Expects and requires innovation of their team
• Thinks big and has convictions
• Results oriented

Responsibilities

• Developing a robust, multi-channel, search strategy that will attract world class technical contributors.
• Acting as a talent adviser to Technical and Business Leaders across Amazon – educating Hiring Managers about the external Principal Engineer demographic.
• Clearly communicating status and progress against open searches. Providing strategic guidance to executive leadership in matters related to top technical talent.
• Serving as an expert for technology recruiting. Continuous company and talent mapping in key tech areas for the company.
• Developing prospects into candidates, engaging them and performing assessment/screening and presenting candidates to executive leadership.
• Continually contributing to the knowledge base of the group and Amazon, as a whole, by providing education on relevant industries and talent pools/profiles.
• Building out talent networks in technology and product sectors and tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an on-going pool of candidates.
• Supporting client update meetings on active searches with market relevant content.
• Conducting phone interviews and preparing candidates for on-site interviews, participating in pre-brief meetings.
• Coaching leaders to continuously improve their talent acquisition capabilities – especially at senior level.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level