Sr. Executive Research Recruiter, Science Research

Description

The Science Recruiting Team is specialty team within Amazon’s Executive Recruiting Organization. The Team hires Amazon’s senior-most talent in the Science and Academics on both the IC (Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Scientists) and leadership (Senior Manager, Director, Vice President) tracks. The domains covered include: Computer Vision, Databases, Data Science, Economics, Hardware, Machine Learning, NLP, Optimization, Operations Research, Robotics, Security, Speech Recognition, and Sustainability.

The Science Recruiting Team has the unique ability to work across all of Amazon’s businesses and impact each senior leadership team. The Sr. Executive Research Recruiter will be responsible for owning and executing search strategies to identify and engage talent. They will work with senior executives and create robust hiring and candidate development strategies. They will be expected to identify, recruit and hire world renowned Science candidates. This person will need to be well-versed in all aspects of senior executive technical search particularly candidate identification, engagement, development, and creative sourcing. They will work with a strong, established team of Recruiters and Researchers.


Key job responsibilities
Specific responsibilities include but, aren’t limited to:
• Developing robust, multi-channel, search strategies that will attract world class scientists.
• Acting as a talent adviser to leaders across Amazon – educating hiring managers about the external science leadership demographic.
• Clearly communicating status and progress against open searches.
• Providing strategic guidance to executive leadership in matters related to top scientific talent.
• Serving as an expert for science executive search.
• Continuous company and talent mapping for the company.
• Developing prospects into candidates, engaging them and performing assessment/screening and presenting candidates to executive leadership.
• Continually contributing to the knowledge base of the group and Amazon, as a whole, by providing education on relevant industries and talent pools/profiles.
• Building out talent networks in scientific domains and tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an on-going pool of candidates.
• Supporting client update meetings on active searches with market-relevant content.
• Conducting phone interviews and preparing candidates for technical phone interviews.
• Coaching leaders to continuously improve their talent acquisition capabilities – especially at senior level.
• Attending top Science conferences to build long term relationships with external talent.

To be successful in this role, you will bring the following:
• Experience in executive search research
• Research acumen and creativity; An individual who can learn new domains quickly and understand how to craft effective search strategies within those domains independently.
• Superb communication skills; a compelling communicator able to engage the attention of busy, senior executives.
• Self-assured, not easily thrown, able to think on your feet; this individual may be called upon to work on highly confidential searches with very senior leaders.
• Inquisitive; a strong desire to learn.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member.

Basic 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.