DESCRIPTION

The Principal Engineer (PE) Recruiting Team is within Amazon’s Executive Staffing Organization. We hire Principal, Senior Principal, and Distinguished Engineers – the Company's most senior technical contributors. Members of Amazon's PE Community are exemplary technical practitioners and pragmatic visionaries. Our PEs set the standard for engineering excellence across Amazon. To scale Amazon’s PE 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 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.

Key job responsibilities
Specific responsibilities include but, aren’t 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.

A day in the life


About the team
The PE Recruiting Team counts 11 countries and numerous cities across the United States in its search portfolio. We are a dynamic team on the forefront of research, market, and talent intelligence operating several talent channels to achieve our hiring goals.