The Science, Design and Academics (SDA) Recruiting Team is small specialist recruiting team, within Amazon’s Executive Staffing Organization. The Team hires Amazon’s senior-most talent in the Science and Design space on both the IC (Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Scientists/Designers) and leadership (Senior Manager, Director, Vice President) tracks. The domains covered include: Computer Vision, Creative, Databases, Data Science, Economics, Databases, Hardware, Machine Learning, NLP, Optimization, Operations Research, Robotics, Security, Speech Recognition, Sustainability, UX Design and UX Research.

The SDA Executive Recruiting Team has the unique ability work across all of Amazon’s businesses and impact each senior leadership team. The Executive Search Researcher will be responsible for owning and executing search strategies to identify and engage talent. They will work with senior executives and create robust hiring and candidate development strategies. They will be expected to identify, recruit and hire world renowned Science and Design candidates. This person will need to be well-versed in all aspects of senior executive technical search particularly candidate identification, engagement, development, and creative sourcing. They will work with a strong, established team of Recruiters and Researchers.


Key job responsibilities
Specific responsibilities include but, aren’t limited to:
• Developing robust, multi-channel, search strategies that will attract world class scientists and designers.
• Acting as a talent adviser to leaders across Amazon – educating hiring managers about the external science and design leadership demographic.
• Clearly communicating status and progress against open searches.
• Providing strategic guidance to executive leadership in matters related to top scientific talent.
• Serving as an expert for science and design executive search.
• Continuous company and talent mapping in key science and design areas for the company.
• Developing prospects into candidates, engaging them and performing assessment/screening and presenting candidates to executive leadership.
• Continually contributing to the knowledge base of the group and Amazon, as a whole, by providing education on relevant industries and talent pools/profiles.
• Building out talent networks in scientific and creative/design domains and tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an on-going pool of candidates.
• Supporting client update meetings on active searches with market-relevant content.
• Conducting phone interviews and preparing candidates for technical phone interviews.
• Coaching leaders to continuously improve their talent acquisition capabilities – especially at senior level.
• Attending top Science and Design conferences to build long term relationships with external talent.

To be successful in this role, you will bring the following:
• Experience in executive search research
• Research acumen and creativity; An individual who can learn new domains quickly and understand how to craft effective search strategies within those domains independently.
• Superb communication skills; a compelling communicator able to engage the attention of busy, senior executives.
• Self-assured, not easily thrown, able to think on your feet; this individual may be called upon to work on highly confidential searches with very senior leaders.
• Inquisitive; a strong desire to learn.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member.