Recruiter, Talent Acquisition

Amazon Web Services; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS is seeking a customer-focused Recruiter to join the Talent Acquisition team in Australia. This full-time, in-office role collaborates with hiring managers to attract, engage, and evaluate top talent across diverse roles, leveraging innovative attraction strategies and data-driven hiring practices.

The position is based in our CBD offices in Sydney or Melbourne, requiring five days per week on-site and close partnership with recruiters and business leaders to deliver exceptional candidate

Qualifications

• 3+ years in technical recruiting in high-volume environments.
• Experience prioritizing multiple searches and client relationships.
• Experience building talent pipelines and sourcing initiatives.
• Experience with complex compensation, offers, and closing negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Develop recruiting strategies with hiring managers across roles in Australia.
• Build and maintain candidate networks through market research and relationships.
• Utilize sourcing channels including referrals, CRM, portals, and career fairs.
• Provide insights on market trends to influence hiring strategies.
• Implement processes aligning with Amazon's customer-focused recruitment.
• Assess candidate skills and ensure high hiring standards.
• Manage recruitment data with data-driven quality and process discipline.
• Educate hiring managers and interviewers on best practices and skills training.

Skills

Tech recruiting

Multiple searches

Sourcing pipelines

Offer negotiation

Job description

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Talent Acquisition team is seeking a talented, customer-focused Recruiter to join their team.

As a Recruiter at AWS, you'll spearhead candidate generation initiatives in collaboration with hiring managers across diverse roles in Australia. Your mission is to uncover, engage, and evaluate top-tier talent, leveraging your innovation and creativity with attraction strategies. At AWS, we embrace all ideas, fostering an environment where innovation counts. You will be part of a collaborative environment with dedicated business leaders that are fully committed to the recruitment journey.

Surrounded by a group of exceptional recruiters ready to dive in and deliver great results, you'll thrive in an environment that values ownership and action. You'll leverage your deep understanding of the technology landscape or other fast-paced industry to cultivate trusting connections with hiring managers, recruiters, and candidates.

This is a full time permanent role requiring in-office presence 5 days per week, at our CBD location (either Sydney or Melbourne).

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work closely with business in order to deeply understand the roles and responsibilities, and utilise this information to develop effective recruiting strategies.
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and on-going relationship management, gauging candidates for cultural alignment and motivation rather than simply ‘sell a role’.
• Ensure all sourcing channels are sufficiently utilised, including but not limited to employee referrals, internal CRM, career portals, job fairs, etc.
• Be a subject matter expert on the talent market and offer ideas and strategies related that will contribute to the long-range talent landscape.
• Implement new processes and fine-tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
• Active participation in the recruitment efforts, including emphasis on the capability of assessing skills to help evaluate candidates and ensuring the highest bar.
• Manage well on all the data associated with the recruitment process. Data-driven thinking and systematic approaches in achieving the operation excellence.
• Emphasis on continuous improvement, as such it is expected that you will spend time to ensure ongoing education of hiring managers and interviews on recruitment “best practice” and interview skills training.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical recruiting in high volume and high hiring bar environment experience
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships
• Experience building and driving talent sourcing initiatives and pipelines
• Experience in complex compensation build, offer negotiation and closing/objection handling

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in utilizing data and analytical skills to create, measure, and scale workflows to achieve accelerated hiring goals
• Experience hiring talent that meet a high security bar and/or comprehensive knowledge of the defense talent landscape
• Experience working in a large team or fast-paced corporate environment, or experience troubleshooting problems and offering solutions to streamline complex challenges
• Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team

Acknowledgement of country

In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Inclusive Culture Statement

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.