Sr. Executive Research Recruiter, Principal Engineer Recruiting Team

About the role

Join Amazon's Global Specialty Recruiting team and help identify and hire the world's most exceptional Principal Engineers. Members of Amazon's Principal Engineer Community are Amazon's most senior technologists—exemplary practitioners and pragmatic visionaries who set the standard for engineering excellence across Amazon. This role offers unparalleled visibility, working across all Amazon businesses to advise senior executives on hiring strategy while building relationships with world-renowned technical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Search Design: Develop robust, multi-channel search strategies to attract 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 a 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 and conduct continuous company and talent mapping.
• Candidate Development: Develop prospects into candidates through sophisticated engagement. Perform assessment and screening, present candidates to executive leadership, conduct phone interviews, prepare candidates for technical interviews, and coach leaders on talent acquisition at senior levels.
• Market Expertise: Serve as an expert in engineering recruiting. Contribute to the knowledge base with education on industries and talent pools, learn new domains quickly, and craft effective search strategies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of advising and influencing executive leadership experience.
• 7+ years of progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high-tech market.
• 7+ years of recruiting experience focused on engineering, technical operations, and product management.
• Bachelor's degree or above.
• Experience building and driving talent sourcing initiatives and pipelines.
• Experience creating, measuring, and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team.
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects, and client relationships.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of team building, coaching, and managing experience.
• Experience recruiting passive candidates who are the most senior experts in their field.
• Experience with executive recruiting in either a blue-chip, global in-house executive search team, or a top executive search firm.
• Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools, CRM systems, and complex spreadsheets.

Skills

• Research acumen: Ability to learn technical domains quickly, craft effective search strategies, and 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, maintain relentlessly high standards, and be results-oriented.
• Collaboration: Team leader and member who believes individual wins are team wins, inquisitive with a strong desire to learn.

A day in the life

You'll identify technical leadership at target companies and domains, focusing on Principal Engineers working on problems similar to Amazon's strategic initiatives. You'll craft multi-channel engagement strategies—attending technical conferences, leveraging networks for warm introductions to passive candidates who would be transformational hires. You'll advise leaders on search parameters based on market realities, conduct phone interviews with renowned engineers to assess technical depth and influence capability, and coach hiring managers on candidate engagement. You'll contribute to the team's knowledge base by documenting insights about emerging talent pools that inform future searches.

About The Team

The Principal Engineering Recruiting team is the talent acquisition engine for Amazon's Principal Engineer 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.