Senior Recruiter, Principal Engineer Recruiting, PE Recruiting
About The Position
As a client lead recruiter, you'll have the unique opportunity to impact leadership teams across Amazon's diverse technology landscape, building relationships with Directors and VPs while shaping the future of Amazon's senior engineering community. The Global Specialty Recruiting (GSR) team partners with technical and business leaders across all of Amazon's businesses to hire the company's most senior engineering talent. Our team specializes in recruiting Principal Engineers and Senior Principal Engineers– Amazon's most senior technical contributors who set the standard for engineering excellence and drive innovation across the company.
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive corporate or search firm recruiting work with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high tech market experience
- Bachelor's degree or above
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and hire engineering candidates.
- Proven track record of managing complex executive search processes including client management, candidate development, and offer negotiation
- Experience working with senior executives and providing strategic talent counsel
Nice To Haves
- Experience with executive recruiting in either a blue-chip, global in-house executive search team, or a top executive search firm
- Deep expertise in technology recruiting with ability to quickly learn new technical and product domains
- Experience mentoring and developing other recruiters
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary talent advisor to Directors and VPs, educating leaders on the external senior engineering talent landscape and market dynamics
- Define and deliver recruiting strategies for highly-critical, sometimes confidential roles with broad cross-organizational impact
- Identify and engage highly passive senior engineering candidates through creative, research-driven sourcing strategies
- Build and cultivate robust talent networks across technology sectors, leveraging deep industry knowledge and relationships
- Lead client update meetings on active searches, providing clear, data-driven insights on progress and market conditions
- Provide candid guidance to executive leadership on matters related to top technical talent
- Make sound judgments about candidate fit based on comprehensive analysis of technical depth and leadership impact
- Conduct thorough candidate assessments, participate in debriefs, perform comprehensive reference checks, and present/negotiate employment offers
- Coach leaders to continuously improve their talent acquisition capabilities at the senior level
- Set exceptionally high standards for search quality, candidate experience, and recruiting excellence
- Investigate deeply into technical domains, candidate backgrounds, and market trends to inform strategy
Benefits
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
