Description
The Amazon Security Recruiting team is seeking a talented, customer-focused sourcing recruiter with a passion for delighting clients and candidates to join our global recruiting organization. Amazon Security's dedicated talent acquisition team plays a crucial role in identifying and attracting top security professionals across all domains. These talent acquisition specialists partner closely with security leaders to understand technical and operational requirements, driving candidate generation strategies and maintaining high hiring standards. The Amazon Security organization emphasizes a shared responsibility model, with security teams working in a distributed yet coordinated manner while maintaining centralized governance. Through continuous monitoring, automation, and regular security assessments, Amazon maintains robust protection across its diverse ecosystem. This structure, supported by strategic talent acquisition efforts, enables Amazon to scale its security operations effectively while adapting to evolving threats, ultimately protecting customers, employees, and assets through integrated security programs and technologies.
Successful sourcers on this team utilize their experience in setting benchmarks, forecasting and tracking against metrics, and prioritizing to hit customer SLAs. They thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, can roll up their sleeves, work hard, and have fun to get the job done. They draw on extensive knowledge of Talent Acquisition and functional areas of the business, forging dynamic relationships with business leaders and hiring managers.
Key job responsibilities
• Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing and assessment approaches, managing customer expectations through deep ROI understanding
• Recruit passive candidates with focus on cultural fit and motivation assessment
• Build and maintain candidate networks through proactive market research and relationship management
• Recommend and implement strategic recruitment initiatives aligned with Amazon's mission
• Develop and execute structured recruitment plans with clear deliverables and timelines
• Screen and interview candidates to create ideal candidate slates within consistent timelines
• Participate in special projects to enhance recruiting practices and identify top talent
About the team
Why Amazon Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training and Career growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of technical recruiting in high volume and high hiring bar environment experience
- Experience building candidate sourcing and closing strategies
- Experience in technical recruiting in high volume and high hiring bar environment
- Experience recruiting for mid-senior level talent
- Experience working with essential tools of the trade, resume databases, and internet sourcing tools
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships
- Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 126,100.00 USD annually