Senior Executive Search Researcher, Principal Engineer

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The Principal Engineer (PE) Recruiting Team sits within Amazon’s Executive Staffing 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. They will be expected to identify, recruit, and hire world renowned technical 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 recruiting team of Client Lead and Research Recruiters.

• Developing a robust, multi‑channel search strategy that will attract world‑class technical contributors.
• Acting as a talent adviser to Technical and Business Leaders across Amazon – educating Hiring Managers about the external Principal Engineer demographic.
• Clearly communicating status and progress against open searches. Providing strategic guidance to executive leadership in matters related to top technical talent.
• Serving as an expert for technology recruiting.
• Continuous company and talent mapping in key tech areas 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 technology and product sectors 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 on‑site interviews, participating in pre‑brief meetings.
• Coaching 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; 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.

A day in the life The PE Recruiting team is the talent acquisition engine for Amazon's PE Community. We take a multi‑channel (e.g., target company mapping, conference and event engagement, referral and network lead generation) approach to talent identification, engagement, assessment and match‑making. As a Senior Executive Research Recruiter you will set search strategy, identify the right talent ecosystems to engage, and strategize how best to engage technical luminaries externally.

About the team The PE Research Team's mission is to identify, build a relationship with, and hire, every 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…