Would you like to be part of a recruiting team that is responsible for fueling the rapid growth of Amazon? Do you thrive in high growth ambiguous environments? Are you a process-oriented data driven leader that loves to dive deep to fix complex operational challenges allowing for greater scalability and global impact?
The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Recruiting team is seeking a talented, customer focused Recruiting Manager with a passion for delighting the client and candidate, to join our organization. In this role you will be supporting Amazon's newly launched Research Lab in San Francisco committed to developing foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We're enabling practical AI to make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. In particular, our work combines large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in both remote and physical environments. Research in the lab builds on that of Amazon's broader AGI organization, which recently introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs).
Key job responsibilities
- Provide high touch, highly engaged recruiting support to the AGI Research Lab team, focused on the engagement and hiring of highly technical talent with deep domain expertise in artificial intelligence and large language models.
- Partner with key business, HR and TA stakeholders to determine future talent needs, to set and drive strategic recruiting strategies. This requires a deep understanding through extensive market research of the channels (both domestic US and internationally).
- Use strong analytical skills and ability to translate metrics, research, and trends to identify opportunities, interventions, and initiatives for improvement.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment.
- Set team performance goals and metrics, timelines and a formal tracking process to measure and manage progress.
- Develop and execute to plans to identify and drive productivity improvements that enable the team to deliver to hiring goals.
About the team
The Artificial General Intelligence team is responsibly advancing the company's generative AI technologies, including Amazon's most expansive multimodal Large Language Models. The AGI Talent Acquisition team is focused on the delivery of top talent in support of this mission. This role will lead a team of full lifecycle recruiters, dedicated to the delivery of talent for the lab. As the leader of this team, you will be working in the office, directly with the lab leadership team to build talent engagement strategies, calibrate on top talent profiles, and deliver results.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent post-secondary degree
- 5+ years of Recruiting and/or HR experience
- 3+ years direct people leadership experience
- 2+ years experience building, coaching and managing large dispersed recruiting/sourcing teams
- 2+ years experience managing and prioritizing multiple projects and client relationships
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA or other advanced degree
- Experience in a start up environment leading greenfield organizational builds.
- Experience managing senior staff and/or staffing managers
- Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow between Candidates, Hiring Managers and the Recruiting team
- Project/Program Management Experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Skilled at partnering with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of ROI
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.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.
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