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Description

Our Global Specialty Recruiting (GSR) team is a highly specialized group focused on hiring exceptional talent for complex, hard-to-fill scientific, design, academic, & executive tech and non tech roles across Amazon. The organization is comprised of recruiters, researchers, and recruiting coordinators, and also includes central program management, business analysts, and admin staff to support operations, process, policy, systems, training, communication, change management, data and analytics for the organization and partner organizations. GSR partners with and influences L7+ leaders in the business, as well as PXT, Legal, Finance, and Security.

What makes our Global Specialty Recruiting team unique is our deep domain expertise, agile sourcing/research strategies, and truly global reach. Our recruiters are embedded within the scientific and technical communities, allowing us to leverage industry connections, innovative sourcing tactics, and a nuanced understanding of specialized skill sets. We don't just fill roles - we partner with hiring managers to truly understand their needs and identify candidates who are the best fit, not just on paper, but for the role, team and organization overall.

As a full life cycle recruiter on this team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented peers, leverage leading-edge recruiting technology, and make a meaningful impact on the growth and success of Amazon. You'll be a vital strategic partner, helping to shape our talent acquisition approach and elevate the candidate experience for some of the most sought-after technical professionals in the world.

If you're passionate about the sciences, driven to find exceptional talent, and eager to work alongside a best-in-class recruiting organization, this is an unparalleled opportunity to grow your career and opportunity for impact.

Critical success factors for this role include:

• Research acumen and creativity - you learn new science domains quickly and understand how to craft effective search strategies within those domains

• Superb communication skills - you're a compelling communicator able to effectively engage the attention of busy, senior executives

• Able to convey complex arguments (without the luxury of complete data) and engage with senior level scientists & executives with conviction and confidence

• Combine tenacity with tact and high judgement; know when to apply the right pressure and when to move on

• Self-assured, not easily thrown, able to think on your feet; you will be leading complex & highly confidential searches with some of our most seasoned leaders

• Inquisitive; a deep sense of learn & be curious

There is a strong preference for this role to be located near our customers in the Seattle area.

Key job responsibilities

Some of the core components of this role include: - Partnering with research (and conducting your own) to identify and cultivate candidates that enable our ability to effectively innovate and scale the business.

• Creating unique and robust search strategies that will identify and deliver the right leaders for the right roles at the right time.

• Developing innovative ways to raise the bar on how Amazon connects with the L7-L10 level science talent.

• Continually contributing to the knowledge base of both our team and the broader recruiting community by sharing intelligence related to relevant industries and talent pools/profiles.

• Building out science talent networks in technology and education sectors, tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an on-going list of evergreen candidates.

• Owning business and stakeholder relationships (you're the go-to and trusted advisor), providing strategic guidance and coaching in close partnership with executive hiring managers & their teams.

• Conducting informational/exploratory calls, phone screens, onsite interviews & references. You'll actively participate in hiring decisions throughout the candidate life cycle.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive corporate and/or search firm recruiting experience with a focus on science and/or engineering candidate generation in a complex and competitive market

• 3+ years of experience advising, influencing & hiring at the executive level

Preferred Qualifications

These professional traits are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:

• Exhibits excellent judgment

• Passionate and focused on hiring and developing exceptional talent

• Has relentlessly high standards

• Thinks strategically and stays on top of tactical execution & operational rigor

• Creative & relentless problem solver, actively seeing around corners

• Thinks big & dives deep daily

• Results oriented

• An innate ability to inspire others

• Provides superior client/partner/customer focused services

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $110,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.