Sr. Sourcing Recruiter, AWS Science

Join AWS Science Recruiting team and help us identify and hire the worlds most exceptional scientific and technical minds. We hire science talent spanning domains including AI/ML NLP Computer Vision and more.

Youll work across all Amazon businesses advising hiring managers on hiring strategy while building relationships with technical leaders. The candidates you engage will influence decisions affecting billions of customers.



Key job responsibilities
Strategic Search Design: Develop multi-channel strategies attracting world-class contributors. Map target companies and research institutions engage at conferences and generate referral leads. Build talent networks across technology domains and tap industry sources for ongoing candidate pools.

Talent Advisory: Partner with hiring teams to educate on market trends talent availability and competitive landscape. Conduct ongoing company and talent mapping to inform search strategy and deliver market-relevant insights.

Candidate Development: Build candidate pipelines through targeted engagement screening and interviews. Guide candidates through the onsite process while coaching hiring teams on best interviewing practices.

What Were Looking For
Research acumen: Learn technical domains quickly craft effective search strategies excel at candidate identification engagement and creative sourcing

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 in high-tech markets experience advising hiring leaders

About the team
The centralized AWS Science Recruiting team connects specialized talent to high-impact initiatives advancing AI-driven capabilities across AWSs most critical technical domains.

The scientists you hire will shape AWSs technical future setting standards mentoring thousands solving problems affecting billions.

Our mission: identify build relationships with and hire world-class scientists. We believe rigorous research yields healthy outcomes. Well-planned searches accelerate time-to-fill while prioritizing quality touchpoints over quantity. We balance long-term relationships with urgent business needs. Youll work with an established team of Recruiters where individual wins are team wins.

- 5 years of corporate and or search firm progressive recruiting including full life cycle recruiting experience

- Experience across other functional areas of talent acquisition ideally diversity recruiting research or analytics
- Experience building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools including proactive phone and internet research

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA Santa Clara - 151600.00 - 205100.00 USD annually
USA WA Bellevue - 137900.00 - 186500.00 USD annually