Senior Recruiter, Design, Global Specialty Recruiting

Requirements

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

Additional Information

Our Global Specialty Recruiting (GSR) team is a highly specialized group focused on hiring exceptional talent for complex, hard-to-fill scientific, design, academic, & executive tech and non tech roles across Amazon. What makes our Global Specialty Recruiting team unique is our deep domain expertise and breadth of experience. Our recruiters are embedded within the design and technical communities, allowing us to leverage industry connections, innovative sourcing tactics, and a nuanced understanding of specialized skill sets. We don't just fill roles - we partner with senior leaders to truly understand their needs and identify candidates who are the best fit for the role, not just on paper, but for the team and organization overall. As a full life cycle recruiter on the GSR Design team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented peers, influence at the most senior levels, and make a meaningful impact on the growth and success of Amazon Design. You'll be a vital strategic partner, helping to shape our talent acquisition approach and elevate the candidate experience for some of the most sought-after technical professionals in the world. If you're passionate about design, driven to find exceptional talent, and eager to work alongside a best-in-class recruiting organization, this is an unparalleled opportunity to grow your career and opportunity for impact. Critical success factors for this role include: - Research acumen and creativity - you learn new domains quickly and understand how to craft effective search strategies within those domains - Superb communication skills - you're a compelling communicator able to effectively engage the attention of busy, senior executives - Able to convey complex arguments (without the luxury of complete data) and engage with senior level designers & executives with conviction and confidence - Combine tenacity with tact and high judgement; know when to apply the right pressure and when to move on - Self-assured, not easily thrown, able to think on your feet; you will be leading complex & highly confidential searches with some of our most seasoned leaders - Inquisitive; a deep sense of learn & be curious Key job responsibilities Some of the core components of this role include: - Partnering with research (and conducting your own) to identify and cultivate candidates that enable our ability to effectively innovate and scale the business - Creating unique and robust search strategies that will identify and deliver the right leaders for the right roles at the right time - Developing innovative ways to raise the bar on how Amazon connects with the Principal, Director & VP level design talent - Continually contributing to the knowledge base of both our team and the broader recruiting community by sharing intelligence related to relevant industries and talent pools/profiles - Building out design talent networks in technology and education sectors, tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an on-going list of evergreen candidates - Owning business and stakeholder relationships (you're the go-to and trusted advisor), providing strategic guidance and coaching in close partnership with executive hiring managers & their teams. - Conducting informational/exploratory calls, phone screens, interviews & references. You'll actively participate in hiring decisions throughout the candidate life cycle.

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