Executive Search Researcher, Principal Engineer Recruiting

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a passionate Research Recruiter to join a dynamic team focused on hiring top-tier Principal Engineers. This role involves crafting innovative search strategies, engaging with senior leadership, and building a diverse talent pipeline. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of technology recruitment, ensuring that only the best candidates are brought on board. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and possess a strong desire to learn and adapt, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a collaborative team that values curiosity and excellence in every hire.

Qualifications

• Several years of executive recruiting experience in high tech.
• Advising and influencing executive leadership effectively.

Responsibilities

• Developing multi-channel search strategies for technical talent.
• Engaging with senior executives to educate on candidate demographics.

Skills

Executive Recruiting

Candidate Engagement

Search Strategy Development

Communication Skills

Team Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

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Amazon UK Services Ltd.

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

10.05.2025

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24.06.2025

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Job Description:

The Principal Engineer (PE) Recruiting Team sits within Amazon’s Executive Staffing 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.

Key job responsibilities
Specific responsibilities include but, aren’t limited to:

- 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.

To be successful in this role, you will bring the following:
- 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.

A day in the life
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.

About the team
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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Several years of progressive executive recruiting experience with a focus on passive candidate generation in a high tech market
- Several years of experience advising and influencing executive leadership
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
- 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
- Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others