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[Remote] Executive Research Recruiter, Design Research , Global Specialty Recruiting

Remote-first Full-time Now hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon Global Specialty Recruiting is looking for a Research Recruiter to help the business scale by identifying and recruiting top talent for executive level positions. This role involves driving search strategy and execution for senior roles across various creative specializations within Amazon. The successful candidate will engage with executive level candidates and provide strategic guidance to leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Conducting research to map markets and generate candidate names and profiles
  • Creating robust search strategies that will attract the best and brightest leaders
  • Calibrating candidates with hiring managers
  • Engaging and building relationships with executive level candidates, and performing initial assessment
  • Contributing to the knowledge base of the executive recruiting team by providing education on industries and talent pools/profiles
  • Building out talent networks in certain functions/industries and tapping knowledgeable industry sources to develop an initial pool of candidates
  • Participating in client update meetings on active searches and preparing reports
  • Shadowing on-site interviews and debriefs
  • Providing strategic guidance and advice in a true partnership with executive leadership
  • Develop multi-channel strategies attracting world-class contributors
  • Map target companies and research institutions, engage at conferences, generate referral leads
  • Build talent networks across technology domains and tap industry sources for ongoing candidate pools
  • Serve as talent adviser to Technical and Business Leaders—educating them about the external design demographic
  • Provide strategic guidance on top talent
  • Conduct continuous company and talent mapping
  • Support client meetings with market-relevant content
  • Develop prospects into candidates through sophisticated engagement
  • Perform assessment and screening, present to executive leadership
  • Conduct phone interviews, prepare candidates for on-site interviews, coach leaders on talent acquisition at senior levels
  • Serve as expert for design recruiting
  • Contribute to knowledge base with education on industries and talent pools across all technical domains
  • Learn new domains quickly and craft effective search strategies

Skills

  • Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
  • Experience building and driving 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
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Research acumen: Learn technical domains quickly, craft effective search strategies, excel at candidate identification, engagement, and creative sourcing
  • Executive presence: Compelling communicator who engages busy executives, self-assured and quick-thinking
  • 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, experience advising executive leadership
  • Experience recruiting passive candidates who are the most senior experts in their field
  • 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

Benefits

  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • 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
  • Parental leave

Company Overview

  • Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://amazon.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3262 in 2026, 22803 in 2025, 21175 in 2024, 19057 in 2023, 24088 in 2022, 12233 in 2021, 14881 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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