Sourcing Recruiter, AWS TA

About This Role

This sourcing recruiter role is a central part of the sales/Go-to-Market recruiting team, responsible for fueling the rapid growth of AWS globally. The focus of the role is on driving candidate generation strategies in partnership with clients, making an impact on the business while recruiting for smart, innovative talent.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment
• Recruit passive candidates and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and motivation rather than simply sell a role
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and on-going relationship management
• Conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company
• Implement any new processes and fine tune standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer
• Articulate in writing recruiting plans with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification
• Screen, interview and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline
• Work with the business, HR, and Compensation to determine appropriate salary ranges and negotiate compensation with candidates
• Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings

Requirements

• 3+ years of technical recruiting in high volume and high hiring bar environment experience
• Experience building candidate sourcing and closing strategies
• 3+ years of passive candidate generation experience

Nice to have:

• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships
• Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team
• Experience across other functional areas of talent acquisition, ideally diversity recruiting, research or analytics
• Experience across other functional areas of talent acquisition, ideally diversity recruiting, Technical or Sales, Cleared hiring

Benefits

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)