Executive Recruiting Researcher, Principal Engineer Recruiting
About the role
Join Amazon's Executive Recruiting team and help us identify and hire the world's most exceptional Principal Engineers. Members of Amazon's Principal Engineering Community are exemplary practitioners and pragmatic visionaries who set the standard for engineering excellence across Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic Search Design: Develop robust, multi-channel strategies attracting world-class engineers. Map target companies, engage at conferences, generate referral leads. Build talent networks and tap industry sources for ongoing candidate pools.
Executive Advisory: Serve as talent adviser to leaders across Amazon, educating hiring managers about the external Principal Engineer demographic. Provide strategic guidance to executive leadership on top technical talent. Conduct continuous company and talent mapping.
Candidate Development: Develop prospects into candidates through sophisticated engagement. Perform assessment and screening, present to executive leadership. Conduct phone interviews, prepare candidates for technical interviews, coach leaders on talent acquisition at senior levels.
Market Expertise: Serve as expert for engineering recruiting. Contribute to knowledge base with education on industries and talent pools. Learn new domains quickly and craft effective search strategies.
What We're Looking For
Research acumen: Learn technical domains quickly, craft effective search strategies, excel at candidate identification, engagement, and creative sourcing
Executive presence: Compelling communicator who engages busy executives and renowned engineers, self-assured and quick-thinking
Strategic judgment: Think strategically while executing tactically, relentlessly high standards, results-oriented
Collaboration: Team leader and member who believes individual wins are team wins, inquisitive with strong desire to learn
About The Team
The Principal Engineering Recruiting team is the talent acquisition engine for Amazon's PE Community. We take a multi-channel approach (target company mapping, conference and event engagement, referral and network lead generation) to talent identification, engagement, assessment, and match-making. Our mission: identify, build relationships with, and hire every great Principal Engineer in the world. You'll work with a strong, established team of executive recruiters.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
3+ years of passive candidate generation experience
Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high-tech market
Several years of experience advising and influencing executive leadership
Preferred Qualifications
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