Amazon Global Specialty Recruiting is looking for a Research Recruiter to help the business scale by identifying and recruiting top talent for executive level positions. This is a high visibility role with a significant opportunity to drive impact at the most senior levels within the organization.
Amazon Executive Recruiting is looking for a Research Recruiter to help the business scale by identifying and recruiting top talent for executive level positions. This is a high visibility role with a significant opportunity to drive impact at the most senior levels within the organization.
The Research Recruiter will drive search strategy and execution for executive level roles across the organization. This is a fast paced role with a fun and exciting team. This search specialist will conduct extensive market research, competitive intelligence and talent mapping to find and engage top talent across business lines and functions.
This role will drive comprehensive search insights by:
· Conducting research to map markets and generate candidate names and profiles
· Creating robust search strategies that will attract the best and brightest leaders
· Calibrating candidates with hiring managers
· Engaging and building relationships with executive level candidates, and performing initial assessment
· Contributing to the knowledge base of the executive recruiting team by providing education on industries and talent pools/profiles
· Building out talent networks in certain functions/industries and tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an initial pool of candidates
· Participating in client update meetings on active searches and preparing reports
· Shadowing on-site interviews and debriefs
· Providing strategic guidance and advice in a true partnership with executive leadership
A successful candidate will need to exhibit the following traits:
· Inquisitive; a strong desire to learn
· Highly articulate, able to convey complex arguments and engage with senior level executives in a polished and professional manner
· Self-assured, not easily thrown, able to think on your feet
· Entrepreneurial mindset, can keep up with the fast paced recruiting culture
· Exceptional qualitative research skills, including the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and quickly learn new spaces
There is room to rise within the company and take on greater positions of responsibility as appropriate.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic Search Design: 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.
Executive Advisory: Serve as talent adviser to Technical and Business Leaders. Provide strategic guidance on top talent. Conduct continuous company and talent mapping. Support client meetings with market-relevant content.
Candidate Development: Develop prospects into candidates through sophisticated engagement. Perform assessment and screening, present to executive leadership. Conduct phone interviews, prepare candidates for on-site interviews, coach leaders on talent acquisition at senior levels.
Market Expertise: Serve as expert for executive recruiting. Contribute to knowledge base with education on industries and talent pools across all technical domains. Learn new domains quickly and craft effective search strategies.
What We're Looking For
• 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, 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, experience advising executive leadership
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 5+ years of research experience at a market insights firm, and/or executive search firm Experience advising and influencing executive leadership
- Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders: Exhibits excellent judgment Hires great people.
- Develops great people.
- Has relentlessly high standards
- Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution.
- Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
- Thinks big and has convictions
- Results oriented
- Has the innate ability to inspire passion in others
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.
USA, WA, Seattle - 80,200.00 - 137,000.00 USD annually