Executive Research Recruiter, Design Research , Global Specialty Recruiting

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.

The Research Recruiter will drive search strategy and execution spanning the senior most roles in User Experience (UX) Creative Direction User Research Design Ops and UX Program Management Industrial Design Store Design Voice Design UX Prototyping and many other creative specializations across all Amazon business lines globally.

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 Leaderseducating them about the external design demographic. 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 design 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 Were 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



- Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
- Experience building and driving talent sourcing initiatives and pipelines
- Experience creating measuring and scaling workflow among candidates hiring managers and the recruiting team
- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches projects and client relationships
- Bachelors degree or equivalent

- Experience recruiting passive candidates who are the most senior experts in their field
- Experience with executive recruiting in either a blue-chip global in-house executive search team or a top executive search firm
- Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools CRM systems and complex spreadsheets

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 WA Seattle - 80200.00 - 137000.00 USD annually