Sr. PM, Recruiting Strategy, Principal Engineer Recruiting Team

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Job summary
The Principal Engineer Talent Programs Team, a central team within Amazon’s Executive Staffing Organization, is seeking a Senior Recruiting Program Manager to help hire the world’s best talent. Our team hires Principal, Senior Principal, and Distinguished Engineers – the Company's most senior technical contributors. Members of Amazon's Principal Engineering Community are exemplary practitioners and pragmatic visionaries. Our Principal Engineers set the standard for engineering excellence across Amazon.
As a Sr. Program Manager for Recruiting Strategy, you will build programs that accelerate hiring through top recruiting sources like employee referrals, former employees, open source communities and academia. This role focuses on process efficiency, driving research experiments, optimizing recruiting and developing a future state operating model that improves time-to-hire. To do so, will you will implement new tools and automation, and build a roadmap that aligns to the long-term vision of our organization. In this role, you will invent on behalf of candidates, recruiting, and hiring managers, experiment and test new ideas, evangelize successes, and drive consistency. As the talent landscape continues to evolve, we need a strategic and innovative program manager to help us think creatively about how to hire this highly sought after and niche talent.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track-record of end to end program management from concept and design through implementation, measurement and continuous improvement. You must be able to take a hypothesis or idea and develop it into a broader vision, gain buy in from stakeholders and seamlessly deliver upon it. You’ll need to have the balance to drive your initiative forward quickly while keeping stakeholders looped in, identifying new opportunities, and collaborating and sharing across the broader Amazon organization.
This position requires excellent leadership skills and hands-on project/program management skills. Bring your PM skills and enthusiasm to learn about Amazon recruiting – we can teach you the rest!


Key job responsibilities
Identifying new areas opportunities to experiment and dig into the why by leveraging data and prioritizing based on strategic goals, business needs, and business impact.

Executing organization-wide initiatives — influence and align stakeholders, define project plans, assemble resources, manage implementation activities, and develop all processes associated with program roll-out and ongoing support.

Driving long-term strategy in close collaboration with recruiting delivery teams to support the talent needs of our rapidly growing business. This involves helping to define the process transformation roadmap and designing industry-transforming solutions that align to enhancing existing processes and practices.

Identifying and directing cross-regional and cross-functional stakeholder groups to plan and scope out process related needs, manage change and track operational performance.

Executing large-scale implementations, aligning project resources effectively and directing all stages of project and change management

Communicating effectively to recruiting teams and business stakeholders to drive adoption and feedback collection around new solution launches/changes

Collating, reviewing, and communicating metrics/data analysis, and risk mitigation

Develop and execute new diversity recruiting strategies to deliver talent

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years of experience in program or project management
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

MBA or Master's Degree
Project/Program Management Certification
Experience with development and execution of global programs
Well-honed analytical skills, comfortable working with data and developing insights from it, experience establishing and tracking program metrics, and experience with experimental design
Excellent written and verbal communications skills - ability to interface with all levels of the organization, specific strength in influencing decision makers and managing expectations
Experience identifying and resolving complex issues, and assuming leadership roles in unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances - solid sense of accountability and sound personal judgment


Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.