Senior Executive Search Researcher, Principal Engineer Recruiting

The Principal Engineer (PE) Recruiting Team sits within Amazons Executive Staffing Organization. The team hires Principal, Senior Principal, and Distinguished Engineers - the Companys most senior technical contributors. Members of Amazons Principal Engineering Community are exemplary practitioners and pragmatic visionaries. Our Principal Engineers set the standard for engineering excellence across Amazon. In order to scale Amazons 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 work across all of Amazons 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.

Key job responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include but, arent limited to:

• 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.

To be successful in this role, you will bring the following:

• 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 Amazons 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 Teams 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 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 dont 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.
• Turn over every stone: Fear-less curiosity means asking difficult questions to disambiguate search problems, highlight the tradeoffs that need to be made in a search, and zero in on the search objective. We prioritize proactive communication of good and bad news to key stakeholders.
• PE Research is grateful for what came before and builds on existing data to deliver candidate and market insights, accelerate, and innovate, but isnt afraid to adapt, and try new directions when a search is stuck. We develop durable research that others want to use.