GSS - Tech Sourcing Recruiter , WWAS TA C Sourcing

Amazon; Bengaluru; Remote; INR 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sourcer Recruiter to help find top talent for the US market from India. You will recruit across distribution and operations roles, build a network of candidates, and drive proactive sourcing strategies in a fast-paced environment.

The role is contractual and supports global TA efforts with remote flexibility, working hours aligned to IST. You will partner with the Global Strategic Sourcing team to deliver high-quality candidates efficiently.

Qualifications

• Experience with Boolean and advanced search to identify niche technical candidates.
• Ability to manage high-volume recruitment and hit SLAs.
• Experience using ATS and LinkedIn Recruiter for sourcing and tracking.

Responsibilities

• Source passive candidates via Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub and web channels.
• Conduct outreach and engagement to build interest and fit.
• Screen candidates by phone and video to assess qualifications and culture fit.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to set benchmarks and timelines.

Skills

Boolean search

Advanced search

Candidate engagement

High volume recruiting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

ATS

X-ray search/Open web

GitHub

Job description

Description

About Amazon

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history by joining the North American Operations recruiting team at Amazon.

It's a contractual role.

Locations: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, and Gurgaon (Remote role)

Timing: 6:00 PM - 3:00 AM IST

Role Overview

We need an exceptionally talented Sourcer Recruiter to help us find the best talent in the US market to support our growth. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers. The Recruiter will work with a team of recruiting professionals focusing on finding the best distribution and operations professionals across the country, fostering a collaborative team environment and a strong service-oriented culture that ensures delivery of efficient, effective, quality-driven service to internal customers.

Key Requirements

The candidate must be able to successfully manage, prioritize and close searches against a timeline and have experience setting benchmarks, metrics, and understand how to prioritize to hit all customer SLAs. They thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, can roll up their sleeves, work hard, have fun, and get the job done. The best candidates will have a reputation for being exceptional at candidate generation in a high volume environment and possess strong verbal and written communication skills. They will need to demonstrate an ability to prioritize their time, demonstrate pushback and a sense of urgency, and understand the value of providing amazing customer service.

Core Responsibilities

Recruit passive candidates with the mentality to "profile people and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and understand their motivation" rather than sell a role

Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management

Conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios

Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company

Implement new processes and fine-tune standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer

Articulate in writing a plan with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process

Sourcing and Candidate Engagement

Proactively source passive candidates using Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, X-ray search/Open web and other sourcing channels for remote sites

Conduct candidate outreach and engagement to build interest and assess right fit

Filter the right candidates during recruiter phone screen

Screening and Evaluation

Conduct on-phone and virtual candidate screening process to assess qualification and skill alignment

Use Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, X-ray search/Open web, GitHub and other sourcing tools

Must-Have Skills

Boolean and Advanced Search

Create targeted Boolean strings to identify candidates with niche technical skills across LinkedIn, X-ray search/Open web, GitHub, trade forums and specialized job boards

Candidate Engagement for Passive Talent

Skilled at requirement gathering, sourcing and screening candidates in specialized technical fields

Articulate role-based value proposition to the candidate

Build strategies and brainstorm to create efficient and creative sourcing solutions for stakeholders

Good to Have:

Market Intelligence: Understand the talent market to source the right talent from targeted organizations

Experience in any 1 or 2 Tech hiring domain will be an added advantage

1. Experience of hiring Full stack, Back-end and Front-end engineers,

2. Data Analytics including Data Scientist (AI/ML) and Engineers,

3. Understanding of any 2-3 Programming languages or key tech stacks like Python, Java, SQL, ETL, data pipelines, Hadoop, Spark, Big Data, or similar technical landscape.

Key job responsibilities

1. Proven ability and sharp on the feet to proactively source passive candidates using Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, X-ray search/ Open web and other sourcing channels for remote sites.

2. Experience in conducting candidate outreach and engagement to build interest and assess right fit, with ability to filter the right candidates during recruiter phone screen.

About the team

The role holder will be a part of Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS) team, which is a central sourcing team for WW Amazon Talent Acquisition (ATA) team. We scout bar raising talent spanning across Americas (NA, LATAM), Europe, AMET and India, to enable and scale cost-efficient sourcing solutions in Tech, Non-Tech and High volume space.

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of corporate or search firm progressive recruiting or research experience

• Bachelor's degree, or 2+ years of full-time Amazon experience

• Experience with contact management system/applicant tracking system for sourcing, tracking and managing candidates

• Experience using a myriad of third-party tools to help provide texture on competitive advertising spending, category and consumer usage data via syndicated research sources (e.g. comScore, MRI, Simmons, YouGov)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing high volume as well as niche hiring

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