Senior Manager, Recruiting, Amazon University Talent Acquisition

About the role

The Senior Manager serves as the Single Threaded Leader (STL) for Science campus recruiting at Amazon University Talent Acquisition (AUTA). This role owns the end-to-end university talent acquisition strategy, team, and delivery for Amazon's science disciplines globally.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Single Threaded Leader for AUTA Science, owning the end-to-end campus recruiting and intern program strategy for all science disciplines.
• Author and maintain a multi-year Science Talent Acquisition strategy document that articulates Amazon's competitive position by discipline, pipeline health, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes. Use this document to align cross-functional stakeholders and influence resource allocation decisions.
• Define goals and long-term strategy (3+ years) for science campus recruiting; establish success metrics, KPIs, and reporting standards that provide real-time visibility into pipeline health, time-to-fill, conversion rates, and competitive loss by discipline.
• Develop and execute a unified faculty engagement strategy, maintaining a single relationship map per discipline and coordinating outreach to avoid duplication and conflicting messaging across TA teams.
• Build and maintain a unified conference strategy for key science venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICRA, CAV, PLDI, etc.), coordinating booth presence, speaking slots, and candidate engagement events across organizational boundaries.
• Partner with Science business leaders and Finance to influence early demand confirmation, validate headcount allocation by discipline, and ensure demand timing preserves the full recruiting season for specialized talent pipelines.
• Serve as the single TA point of accountability for science leaders within AUTA's scope, regardless of level or hiring channel, ensuring a consistent and high-quality candidate experience across all touchpoints.
• Partner with domain-aligned STLs (Automated Reasoning, AI, Robotics) and the Amazon Science STL to align on cross-discipline priorities, escalation paths, and candidate surfacing across all available requisitions.
• Design and implement the team structure and operating mechanisms required to coordinate science hiring across five TA organizations without direct authority over those teams.
• Lead, develop, and inspire a team of recruiting professionals, setting clear performance expectations, providing coaching and career development, and building organizational capability to deliver against ambitious science hiring goals.
• Define role clarity, documented handoff protocols, and weekly defect tracking across the Science recruiting ecosystem to ensure clean execution at scale.
• Own the science intern-to-FTE conversion process, proactively matching inclined interns to available FTE headcount to protect professor relationships, preserve the Intern First strategy, and prevent reputational damage in finite academic communities.
• Own Science TA reporting to AUTA and Science leadership, including pipeline health by discipline, conversion rates, competitive loss analysis, and time-to-fill, delivered through standardized mechanisms (WBRs/MBRs).
• Identify and implement systemic process improvements and infrastructure investments (e.g., domain sub-codes, automated dashboards) that reduce complexity for science leaders and candidates, enabling the team to scale impact across disciplines.
• Manage significantly complex problems, decisions, and escalations; decompose them into straightforward solutions; and proactively mitigate risks created by organizational complexity and the fragmented TA landscape.
• Represent AUTA Science at senior leadership forums, communicating pipeline health, risks, strategic recommendations, and program outcomes with clarity and executive presence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Recruiting or HR experience
• 10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience
• 5+ years of direct people leadership experience
• 3+ years of managing managers experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent
• Experience in Recruiting or HR
• Experience building, coaching and managing a recruiting team
• Experience creating and executing effective talent acquisition strategies
• Experience working with recruiting tools and systems, including resume databases, internet sourcing tools, and spreadsheets
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team
• Experience with workforce planning
• Experience partnering with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of ROI
• Deep familiarity with the academic science landscape, including faculty relationships, conference ecosystems, and the PhD hiring lifecycle
• Experience in university or campus recruiting at scale, particularly for science or research roles