Recruiting Business Partner, Amazon University Talent Acquisition

About the role

The Recruiting Business Partner is AUTA's single‑threaded strategic advisor to the business. You will own the university hiring advisory relationship with senior business leaders across multiple lines of business, translating their evolving workforce priorities into early talent strategies and recommendations that AUTA's delivery and demand teams execute against. This is not a delivery role; you are not filling requisitions, managing pipelines, or running interview logistics. Instead, you help business leaders make sense of the early talent landscape, pressure‑test assumptions, and ensure hiring strategies are grounded in market reality.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders and talent acquisition leadership to define early talent requirements and build demand planning reports with clear deliverables, timelines, and tracking mechanisms.
• Ensure demand is accurately captured, distributed, and audited for alignment with approved projections.
• Own the resolution of complex staffing changes mid‑cycle and escalate to senior stakeholders where needed.
• Manage the business relationship through the full hiring calendar: season kickoff communications, cross‑business reviews covering demand, fill progress, conversion, and risk, and year‑on‑year postmortems that feed next‑season blueprints.
• Provide business context to AUTA's delivery managers while keeping delivery execution in their lane.
• Manage the intern‑to‑full‑time conversion process from the business side: set expectations on evaluation timelines, confirm headcount and placement, and coordinate solutions when original placements are no longer viable.
• Serve as the voice of the business inside AUTA, channeling stakeholder feedback into program design, delivery, and enablement.
• Create and distribute stakeholder communications for program launches, policy changes, and process updates.
• Develop and own change‑management plans for business‑impacting initiatives.
• Pull demand and fill metrics, update reporting inputs, flag risks, and prepare weekly stakeholder flash updates.
• Respond to ad‑hoc requests such as pipeline updates, candidate routing questions, and start‑timing inquiries.
• Partner with internal teams on process improvements and ensure clear messaging.

About the team

The AUTA RBP team is a small, tight‑knit group of strategic partners who operate with a high degree of autonomy and trust. Team members are direct, share problems openly, and solve them together. The culture emphasizes speed, data‑driven decision‑making, accountability to the businesses supported, and continuous improvement—whether through process enhancements, challenging assumptions, or building AI tools to sharpen the role.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of corporate and/or search‑firm progressive recruiting experience, including full life‑cycle recruiting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience across other functional areas of talent acquisition, ideally diversity recruiting, research, or analytics.
• Experience building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools, including proactive phone and internet research.

Pay

Base salary range: $137,900 – $186,500 USD annually (locations: Arlington, VA and Seattle, WA). Final compensation includes sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) and is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance with optional supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Additional comprehensive benefits detailed at Amazon Benefits