Sr. Executive Research Recruiter, Principal Engineer

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The Principal Engineer (PE) Recruiting Team sits within Amazon’s Global Speciality Recruiting organization. The team hires Principal, Senior Principal, and Distinguished Engineers – the Company's most senior technical contributors. Members of Amazon's Principal Engineering Community are exemplary practitioners and pragmatic visionaries. Our Principal Engineers set the standard for engineering excellence across Amazon.

In order to scale Amazon’s Principal Engineering Community, the PE Recruiting Team is looking for a Research Recruiter who shares a passion for hiring the best and the brightest engineers in the world.

The PE Recruiting Team has the unique ability to work across all of Amazon’s businesses and impact each senior leadership team. The Recruiter will be responsible for owning and executing Principal Engineer searches. They will own relationships with senior executives and create robust hiring and candidate development strategies.

• Developing a robust, multi-channel search strategy that will attract world class technical contributors.
• Act as a talent adviser to Technical and Business Leaders across Amazon – educating Hiring Managers about the external Principal Engineer demographic.
• Clearly communicate status and progress against open searches, providing strategic guidance to executive leadership in matters related to top technical talent.
• Serve as an expert for technology recruiting. Continue company and talent mapping in key tech areas for the company.
• Develop prospects into candidates, engaging them and performing assessment/screening and presenting candidates to executive leadership.
• Continually contribute to the knowledge base of the group and Amazon, as a whole, by providing education on relevant industries and talent pools/profiles.
• Build out talent networks in technology and product sectors and tap knowledgeable industry sources to develop an on-going pool of candidates.
• Support client update meetings on active searches with market relevant content.
• Conduct phone interviews and prepare candidates for on-site interviews, participating in pre-brief meetings.
• Coach leaders to continuously improve their talent acquisition capabilities – especially at senior level.

• Research acumen and creativity; an individual who can learn new tech and product domains quickly and understand how to craft effective search strategies within those domains.
• 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; 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.

The PE Recruiting team is the talent acquisition engine for Amazon's PE Community. We take a multi-channel approach to talent identification, engagement, assessment and match-making. As a Senior Executive Research Lead you will set search strategy, identify the right talent ecosystems to engage, and strategize how best to engage technical luminaries externally.

The PE Research Team's mission is to identify, build a relationship with, and hire each great Principal Engineer in the world. We use several tenets to guide us. Specifically, we believe that applying research yields a healthy search outcome:
With a well thought-out search plan, research accelerates ‘time to fill’ and prioritizes quality prospect touchpoints over quantity to create a prospect flywheel that earns customer and candidate trust.

We prioritize time to build a prospect and candidate pipeline as diverse as our customers. We balance long-term candidate relationships with quick action on urgent, critical, business needs. Successful Research Recruiters don’t take short cuts, know candidate motivations deeply, and compile accurate market analysis with precise record keeping.

Individual wins are team wins. We are proud of making hires as a team. We are happy when our research delights our customers and results in a hire.

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