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Full Lifecycle Recruiter, AGI Talent Acquisition

About the Team: Our team operates within Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, supporting SVP and Head Scientist Rohit Prasad. We are rapidly scaling AGI teams with a deep focus on large‑scale foundational models and autonomous agents. Our aim is to revolutionize human‑AI interaction and ultimately reshape our daily interactions with the world. Recently, we launched a series of Nova models, now available to our customers on Amazon Bedrock, in tandem with Alexa+, which is currently rolling out through Amazon Devices and Services.

About The Role

This position will work closely with Amazon's San Francisco Autonomy Lab and Foundations teams and will be based on‑site at the Lab. As a Principal AI Recruiter, you will be responsible for executing our immediate and long‑term strategy for attracting top AI talent. You will work closely with Principal Engineering, Science, and Executive recruiters, as well as our industry teams focused on foundational delivery. Your role will involve deriving strategic industry insights and partnering with labor and market research teams to identify and engage top talent for further discussions. This position requires a deep interest in and curiosity about how the technical market is evolving in the present day, including understanding general foundational LLM frameworks and tracking research techniques to specific academic labs, faculty, and startup leaders driving this work. We seek a results‑driven individual who is engaged, eager to learn, and can demonstrate clear and tangible short‑term and long‑term results. This role offers significant autonomy and the opportunity to directly impact Amazon's leadership through strategic talent acquisition.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic talent acquisition for Amazon's senior technical roles, driving significant impact on the company's technological advancement.
• Act as a trusted talent advisor to senior leadership, providing critical insights and guidance on high‑level technical hiring decisions.
• Develop and execute innovative, multi‑faced recruiting strategies to engage the total addressable market of engineering talent in a competitive landscape.
• Cultivate and maintain extensive networks within the tech industry, leveraging these relationships to build a robust pipeline of top‑tier candidates.
• Autonomously manage end‑to‑end recruiting processes for key positions, from initial outreach to offer negotiation and closing.
• Collaborate with research teams to identify emerging talent pools and pioneer new approaches to candidate engagement and assessment.
• Lead client update meetings with executives, clearly communicating progress and strategizing on complex hiring challenges.
• Conduct in‑depth evaluations of senior candidates, including exploratory calls, interviews, and 360‑degree reference checks.
• Drive continuous improvement in Amazon's technical recruiting practices by sharing insights, writing influential documents, and implementing innovative solutions.
• Demonstrate thought leadership by contributing to the company's knowledge base on industry trends, talent landscapes, and effective hiring strategies.
• Coach hiring managers and leaders to enhance their talent acquisition capabilities, particularly for senior and executive‑level roles.
• Quickly adapt to and become proficient in new technological domains to effectively assess and attract specialized engineering talent.
• Tackle complex recruiting challenges with creativity and persistence, finding solutions when traditional methods fall short.
• Embody Amazon's leadership principles, particularly in being vocally self‑critical and consistently raising the bar for hiring standards.
• Balance multiple high‑priority searches simultaneously, demonstrating strong project management and stakeholder communication skills.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of advising and influencing executive leadership experience.
• 7+ years of progressive corporate or search firm recruiting work with a focus on passive engineering candidate generation in a high‑tech market.
• 7+ years of recruiting with focus on engineering, technical operations, and product management experience.
• Bachelor's degree or above.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of performing team building, coaching and managing experience.
• 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.

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 working safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhering to standards of excellence; communicating effectively and respectfully; and following 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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Compensation: The base pay for this position ranges from $110,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Depending on the position offered, equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

Job ID: A3127850. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.