Sourcing Recruiter, AWS TA

Key job responsibilities

• Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Recruit passive candidates and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and motivation rather than simply sell a role.
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management; conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios.
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine-tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
• Articulate in writing recruiting plans with deliverables, timelines, and a formal tracking process.
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification.
• Screen, interview, and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
• Work with the business, HR, and Compensation to determine appropriate salary ranges and negotiate compensation with candidates.
• Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent, and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.

Core Responsibilities

• Manage searches against a timeline and utilize experience setting benchmarks and metrics.
• Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Recruit passive candidates and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and motivation rather than simply sell a role.
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management; conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios.
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine-tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
• Articulate in writing recruiting plans with deliverables, timelines, and a formal tracking process.
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification.
• Screen, interview, and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
• Work with the business, HR, and Compensation to determine appropriate salary ranges and negotiate compensation with candidates.
• Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent, and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical recruiting in high volume and high hiring bar environment experience.
• Experience building candidate sourcing and closing strategies.
• 3+ years of passive candidate generation experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects, and client relationships.
• Experience creating, measuring, and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team.
• Experience building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools, including proactive phone and internet research.
• 3+ years of working with CRM, ATS, or related applicant tracking software systems and analytics tools experience.
• Experience across other functional areas of talent acquisition, ideally diversity recruiting, Technical or Sales.