Sr. Executive Research Recruiter, Principal Engineer Recruiting

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The Principal Engineer (PE) Recruiting Team sits within Amazon’sGlobal
Speciality Recruiting organization. The team hires 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 PE Recruiting Team is looking for a Research
Recruiter who shares a passion for hiring the best and the brightest engineers
in the world.

The PE 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. 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 Client Lead and Research
Recruiters.

The PE Recruiting team is the talent acquisition engine for Amazon's PE
Community. We take a multi-channel (e.g., target company mapping, conference and
event engagement, referral and network lead generation) approach to talent
identification, engagement, assessment and match-making. As a Senior Executive
Research Lead you will set search strategy, identify the right talent ecosystems
to engage, and strategize how best to engage technical luminaries externally.

The PE Research Team's mission is to identify, build a relationship with, and
hire, every great Principal Engineer in the world. We use several tenets to
guide us. Specifically, we believe that:

Applying research yields a healthy search outcome: With a well thought-out
search plan, research accelerates ‘time to fill’ and prioritizes quality
prospect touchpoints over quantity to create a prospect flywheel that earns
customer, and candidate, trust.

We prioritize time to build a prospect and candidate pipeline as diverse as our
customers.

We balance long-term candidate relationships with quick action on urgent,
critical, business needs. Successful Research Recruiters don’t take short cuts,
know candidate motivations deeply, and compile accurate market analysis with
precise record keeping.

Individual wins are team wins. We are proud of making hires as a team. We are
happy when our research delights our customers and results in a hire.

Turn over every stone: Fear-less curiosity means asking difficult questions to
disambiguate search problems, highlight the tradeoffs that need to be made in a
search, and zero in on the search objective. We prioritize proactive
communication of good and bad news to key stakeholders.

PE Research is grateful for what came before and builds on existing data to
deliver candidate and market insights, accelerate, and innovate, but isn't
afraid to adapt, and try new directions when a search is stuck. We develop
durable research that others want to use.

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.
• 5+ years of advising and influencing executive leadership experience
• 7+ years of progressive corporate or search firm recruiting work with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high tech market experience
• 7+ years of recruiting with focus on engineering, technical operations, and product management experience
• Bachelor's degree or above
• Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
• Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high-tech market
• 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

• 5+ years of performing team building, coaching and managing experience
• Experience in performing team building, coaching, and managing
• 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

• 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: Executive