Sr. Executive Research Recruiter, Principal Engineer Recruiting

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a dynamic Research Recruiter to join their Principal Engineer Recruiting Team. This role is crucial in identifying and hiring top-tier technical talent across Amazon's various businesses. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional communication skills, a strong research acumen, and the ability to engage with senior executives. You will develop robust hiring strategies, build diverse talent networks, and contribute to a collaborative team environment. This is an exciting opportunity to impact the future of engineering talent acquisition in a leading tech company, where your efforts will help shape the engineering community and drive excellence.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of recruiting experience focusing on engineering candidates.
• Experience advising executive leadership is essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop multi-channel search strategies for technical candidates.
• Act as a talent adviser to technical leaders across Amazon.

Skills

Research acumen

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Inquisitiveness

Ability to influence executives

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Equivalent work experience

Job description

Job ID: 2883337 | Amazon.com Services LLC

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 to 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:

1. Developing a robust, multi-channel, search strategy that will attract world-class technical contributors.
2. Acting as a talent adviser to Technical and Business Leaders across Amazon – educating Hiring Managers about the external Principal Engineer demographic.
3. Clearly communicating status and progress against open searches. Providing strategic guidance to executive leadership in matters related to top technical talent.
4. Serving as an expert for technology recruiting. Continuous company and talent mapping in key tech areas for the company.
5. Developing prospects into candidates, engaging them and performing assessment/screening and presenting candidates to executive leadership.
6. Continually contributing to the knowledge base of the group and Amazon, as a whole, by providing education on relevant industries and talent pools/profiles.
7. Building out talent networks in technology and product sectors and tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an ongoing pool of candidates.
8. Supporting client update meetings on active searches with market relevant content.
9. Conducting phone interviews and preparing candidates for on-site interviews, participating in pre-brief meetings.
10. Coaching leaders to continuously improve their talent acquisition capabilities – especially at senior level.

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

1. 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.
2. Superb communication skills; a compelling communicator able to engage the attention of busy, senior executives.
3. 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.
4. Inquisitive; a strong desire to learn.
5. 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:

1. 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.
2. We prioritize time to build a prospect and candidate pipeline as diverse as our customers.
3. We balance long-term candidate relationships with quick action on urgent, critical, business needs. Successful Research Recruiters don’t take shortcuts, know candidate motivations deeply, and compile accurate market analysis with precise record keeping.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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

4+ years of progressive corporate and/or search firm recruiting experience with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high tech market. 2+ 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 her/his team. Thinks big and has convictions. Results oriented. Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others. Provides superior client service.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.