Sr. Executive Research Recruiter, Science Research

About the role

Join Amazon's Science Recruiting Team and help us identify and hire the world's most exceptional scientific and technical minds. We hire Amazon's senior-most talent in Science and Academics on both individual contributor and leadership tracks across domains including Computer Vision, Machine Learning, NLP, Robotics, Operations Research, Economics, and more.

Responsibilities

• Develop multi-channel strategies attracting world-class contributors
• Map target companies and research institutions, engage at conferences, generate referral leads
• Build talent networks across technology domains and tap industry sources for ongoing candidate pools
• Serve as talent adviser to Technical and Business Leaders—educating them about the external Principal Scientist and Engineer demographic
• Provide strategic guidance on top talent and conduct continuous company and talent mapping
• Develop prospects into candidates through sophisticated engagement, perform assessment and screening, and present to executive leadership
• Conduct phone interviews, prepare candidates for on-site interviews, and coach leaders on talent acquisition at senior levels
• Serve as expert for technology and science recruiting, contribute to knowledge base with education on industries and talent pools across all technical domains

Requirements

• Research acumen: Learn technical domains quickly, craft effective search strategies, excel at candidate identification, engagement, and creative sourcing
• Executive presence: Compelling communicator who engages busy executives and renowned scientists, self-assured and quick-thinking
• Strategic judgment: Think strategically while executing tactically, relentlessly high standards, results-oriented
• Collaboration: Team leader and member who believes individual wins are team wins
• Experience: 3+ years passive candidate generation in high-tech markets, experience advising executive leadership

Qualifications

• Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
• 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
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $142,800.00 - $193,200.00 USD annually