Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Principal Recruiter to impact leadership teams across their technology landscape. This role involves serving as a talent advisor, defining recruiting strategies, and engaging with senior engineering candidates to build robust talent networks.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary talent advisor to Directors and VPs, educating leaders on the external senior engineering talent landscape and market dynamics
- Define and deliver recruiting strategies for highly-critical, sometimes confidential roles with broad cross-organizational impact
- Identify and engage highly passive senior engineering candidates through creative, research-driven sourcing strategies
- Build and cultivate robust talent networks across technology sectors, leveraging deep industry knowledge and relationships
- Lead client update meetings on active searches, providing clear, data-driven insights on progress and market conditions
- Provide candid guidance to executive leadership on matters related to top technical talent
- Make sound judgments about candidate fit based on comprehensive analysis of technical depth and leadership impact
- Conduct thorough candidate assessments, participate in debriefs, perform comprehensive reference checks, and present/negotiate employment offers
- Coach leaders to continuously improve their talent acquisition capabilities at the senior level
- Set exceptionally high standards for search quality, candidate experience, and recruiting excellence
- Investigate deeply into technical domains, candidate backgrounds, and market trends to inform strategy
- Operate with independence and discretion on searches where strategy has not yet been defined