Key job responsibilities
• Recruit passive candidates through pro-active market research, assess them against top talent and Amazon’s culture described in our leadership principles.
• Manage and prioritize searches to ensure well qualified and diverse talent pipelines are provided on-time, leveraging a range of metrics and key performance indicators to deliver results.
• Leverage industry trends, competitor activities, and market conditions to provide insights to develop innovative sourcing methods, scalable candidate pipelines, complemented by proven strategies to consistently identify and attract top-tier candidates.
• Screen and attract top talent by assessing candidate skills, qualifications, and by guiding them throughout our hiring process, setting them up for success.
• Utilize best in class candidate engagement techniques and pre-closing strategies with candidates to build rapport and impact.
• Collaborate cross functionally and partner with fellow Recruiters, Recruiting Coordinators, and Strategic Demand Advisors (SDA), to ensure that talent needs of customers are met.
• Create exceptional candidate experience, efficiently organize, effectively communicate, prioritize, push back when necessary, and demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, all while being customer focused and collaborative.
• Meet/exceed key performance indicators (KPI), such as pipeline activity, conversion ratios, candidate experience, and cycle times.
• Continuously invest time in expanding knowledge base as industry standards and trends change and shift.
• Participate in project work focused on building operational efficiencies, continuous process improvement, improving recruiter productivity, etc.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of corporate or search firm progressive recruiting or research experience
- Experience with contact management system/applicant tracking system for sourcing, tracking and managing candidates

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience managing high volume as well as niche hiring
- Experience leading or participating in technology hiring events, technology mixers, and regular attendance and participation at technology meetups and technology user groups