About This Role
Amazon needs an Executive Recruiter to help the business scale by recruiting senior leaders across EMEA. This role involves owning and executing the research strategy for senior-level (L8+) searches. The Executive Recruiter will partner with senior recruiters on the most complex Director searches and lead their own searches end to end.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute the research strategy for senior-level (L8+) searches
- Conduct research to map target companies and top talent for Amazon
- Build search strategies to identify and attract strong candidates
- Improve how Amazon recruits talent
- Calibrate candidates with other recruiters and hiring managers
- Develop prospects into candidates through engagement and assessment
- Contribute to GSR's knowledge base by sharing insight on relevant industries and talent pools
- Build talent networks and tap industry sources to maintain a candidate pipeline
- Lead update meetings on active searches with hiring managers
- Partner with hiring managers and senior recruiters to guide search decisions
Requirements
- Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive L8+ candidate generation
- Experience building and driving passive L8+ 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
- Experience delivering L8+ talent across multiple industries and geographies, with demonstrable expert
- 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
