Senior Manager, Recruiting, Amazon University Talent Acquisition
About the role
The Senior Manager serves as the Single Threaded Leader (STL) for Technical campus recruiting at Amazon University Talent Acquisition (AUTA). This role owns the end-to-end university talent acquisition strategy, recruiting team, and delivery for Amazon's technical disciplines in NAMER, including SDE-I, Specialized SDE-I, and non-SDE technical roles.
Responsibilities
Design and maintain a multi-year Technical Talent Acquisition strategy document that articulates Amazon's competitive position by role type, pipeline health, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes.
Define goals and long-term strategy (3+ years) for technical campus recruiting; establish success metrics, KPIs, and reporting standards that provide real-time visibility into pipeline health, time-to-fill, conversion rates, quality-of-hire indicators, and competitive loss by role type and geography.
Develop and execute a unified school engagement strategy for technical roles, maintaining a tiered approach to target institutions selected on quality-of-hire data, AI/ML and computer science program strength, research partnerships, and geographic proximity to tech hubs.
Lead, develop, and inspire a team of recruiting leaders and their teams, setting clear performance expectations, providing coaching and career development, and building organizational capability to deliver against ambitious technical hiring goals.
Own Technical TA reporting to AUTA and business leadership, including pipeline health by role type and geography, conversion rates, quality-of-hire metrics, competitive loss analysis, and time-to-fill, delivered through standardized mechanisms.
Represent AUTA Technical 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
4+ years of recruiting mid to high-level tech talent in competitive markets experience
Experience in university or campus recruiting at scale, particularly for software engineering or technical roles