Design Recruiter, Business Development, Advertising & Entertainment

Job description

DESCRIPTION

The Amazon Business Development, Advertising, and Entertainment (BDAE) Design Recruiting organization supports a diverse group of businesses including Amazon Music, Amazon Advertising, Prime Video, Amazon Studios and many more! Our BDAE Recruiting team is searching for a skilled recruiter to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate has a strong reputation for being exceptional at candidate generation, client/account management, are highly organized, effective communicators, possess the ability to prioritize, push back, and demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, all while being highly customer focused and collaborative. This is a fast paced environment where we work hard, have fun and welcome innovation.
Our recruiters have significant influence and impact to the business by identifying and closing top entertainment talent in the industry while also cultivating a partnership that goes beyond hiring.

Primary Responsibilities:
· Partner with BDAE Design teams to build effective sourcing, engagement, and assessment approaches.
· Collaborate with hiring managers and recruiting partners in a highly visible, client-facing role. Own requisition kick off meetings and regular meetings with clients to provide expertise on search strategy and build effective partnerships.
· Engage and recruit passive design candidates on a variety of digital platforms.
· Manage inbound pipeline for referrals and online applicants, and locate additional roles within AWS for candidates to consider.
· Ability to manage, prioritize and close searches against a timeline, report on metrics and provide recommendations for optimization.
· Demonstrated ability to gather data, package reporting and communicate insights to a variety of audiences to include peers and Amazon leadership
· Build and maintain network of potential candidates through proactive market research and on-going relationship management; conduct in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high interview-to-offer ratios.
· Recommend ideas and strategies related to Design recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
· Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification. Screen, review design portfolios, interview and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
· Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 2+ years' experience of corporate and/or agency recruiting experience including sourcing and full life cycle recruiting
· Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
· Strong knowledge of Boolean, x-ray searches and additional sourcing software
· Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships simultaneously
· Experience reporting against recruiting metrics/ results to internal clients
· Experience building and driving a variety of talent sourcing initiatives
· Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools and systems, including applicant tracking systems, resume databases, internet sourcing tools and complex spreadsheets