Executive Research Recruiter, Design Research , Global Specialty Recruiting
About The Position
Amazon Global Specialty Recruiting is seeking a Research Recruiter to support the business's growth 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. The Research Recruiter will drive search strategy and execution for senior roles in User Experience (UX), Creative Direction, User Research, Design Ops and UX Program Management, Industrial Design, Store Design, Voice Design, UX Prototyping, and other creative specializations across all Amazon business lines globally. This is a fast-paced role with a fun and exciting team. The search specialist will conduct extensive market research, competitive intelligence, and talent mapping to find and engage top talent across business lines and functions.
Requirements
- Research acumen: Learn technical domains quickly, craft effective search strategies, excel at candidate identification, engagement, and creative sourcing
- Executive presence: Compelling communicator who engages busy executives, self-assured and quick-thinking
- Strategic judgment: Think strategically while executing tactically, relentlessly high standards, results-oriented
- Collaboration: Team leader and member who believes individual wins are team wins
- Experience: 3+ years passive candidate generation, experience advising executive leadership
- Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
- Experience building and driving talent sourcing initiatives and pipelines
- Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team
- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Nice To Haves
- Experience recruiting passive candidates who are the most senior experts in their field
- Experience with executive recruiting in either a blue-chip, global in-house executive search team, or a top executive search firm
- Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools, CRM systems, and complex spreadsheets
Responsibilities
- Conducting research to map markets and generate candidate names and profiles
- Creating robust search strategies that will attract the best and brightest leaders
- Calibrating candidates with hiring managers
- Engaging and building relationships with executive level candidates, and performing initial assessment
- Contributing to the knowledge base of the executive recruiting team by providing education on industries and talent pools/profiles
- Building out talent networks in certain functions/industries and tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an initial pool of candidates
- Participating in client update meetings on active searches and preparing reports
- Shadowing on-site interviews and debriefs
- Providing strategic guidance and advice in a true partnership with executive leadership
- Develop multi-channel strategies attracting world-class contributors.
- Map target companies and research institutions, engage at conferences, generate referral leads.
- Build talent networks across technology domains and tap industry sources for ongoing candidate pools.
- Serve as talent adviser to Technical and Business Leaders—educating them about the external design demographic.
- Provide strategic guidance on top talent.
- Conduct continuous company and talent mapping.
- Support client meetings with market-relevant content.
- Develop prospects into candidates through sophisticated engagement.
- Perform assessment and screening, present to executive leadership.
- Conduct phone interviews, prepare candidates for on-site interviews, coach leaders on talent acquisition at senior levels.
- Serve as expert for design recruiting.
- Contribute to knowledge base with education on industries and talent pools across all technical domains.
- Learn new domains quickly and craft effective search strategies.
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
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
Associate degree
