Senior Manager, Recruiting, Amazon University Talent Acquisition

Amazon University Talent Acquisition (AUTA) is seeking a Senior Manager to serve as the Single Threaded Leader (STL) for Technical campus recruiting. In this role, you will own the end-to-end university talent acquisition strategy, recruiting team, and delivery for Amazon's technical disciplines in NAMER, including SDE-I, Specialized SDE-I, and non-SDE technical roles. Amazon's technical hiring operates across multiple businesses, geographies, and hiring channels at significant volume. The talent landscape is shifting rapidly toward AI-first skillsets, evaluation rigor is increasing, and competition for top engineering talent from startups and peer tech companies is intensifying. You will design the team structure, mechanisms, and strategy needed to secure the best technical talent from universities worldwide while delivering measurable hiring outcomes.

This is a high-impact leadership role. You will partner with engineering leaders, hiring managers, Bar Raisers, and university administration, operating in a space where process decisions at scale directly affect thousands of hires and Amazon's reputation as a technical employer of choice.

You are a senior recruiting leader who thrives in ambiguous environments, has deep credibility with technical stakeholders, and can build structure while maintaining the operational precision that high-volume technical recruiting requires.

This role offers significant scope, executive visibility, and the opportunity to build and lead high-performing teams in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and deeply collaborative environment.




Key job responsibilities
*Serve as the Single Threaded Leader for AUTA Technical, owning the end-to-end campus recruiting and intern program strategy for SDE-I, Specialized SDE-I, and non-SDE technical disciplines in North America.
*Author and maintain a multi-year Technical Talent Acquisition strategy document that articulates Amazon's competitive position by role type, pipeline health, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes. Use this document to align cross-functional stakeholders and influence resource allocation decisions.
*Define goals and long-term strategy (3+ years) for technical campus recruiting; establish success metrics, KPIs, and reporting standards that provide real-time visibility into pipeline health, time-to-fill, conversion rates, quality-of-hire indicators, and competitive loss by role type and geography.
*Develop and execute a unified school engagement strategy for technical roles, maintaining a tiered approach to target institutions selected on quality-of-hire data, AI/ML and computer science program strength, research partnerships, and geographic proximity to tech hubs.
*Serve as the single TA point of accountability for technical hiring leaders within AUTA's scope, regardless of level or hiring channel, ensuring a consistent and high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience across all touchpoints.
*Lead, develop, and inspire a team of recruiting leaders and their teams, setting clear performance expectations, providing coaching and career development, and building organizational capability to deliver against ambitious technical hiring goals.
*Own Technical TA reporting to AUTA and business leadership, including pipeline health by role type and geography, conversion rates, quality-of-hire metrics, competitive loss analysis, and time-to-fill, delivered through standardized mechanisms.
*Represent AUTA Technical at senior leadership forums, communicating pipeline health, risks, strategic recommendations, and program outcomes with clarity and executive presence.

About the team
Amazon's University Talent Acquisition (AUTA) team plays a pivotal role in fueling Amazon's growth and innovation. Guided by a customer-obsessed approach, we partner with business leaders across the enterprise to identify, recruit, and develop student talent from diverse backgrounds worldwide. Our commitment to excellence drives us to raise the bar with every hire, balancing scalability with a relentless focus on quality. Operational rigor, data-driven insights, and a globally-minded, locally-responsive approach enable us to deliver seamless experiences that meet the evolving needs of a dynamic and growing business.

The Sr. Manager role sits at the intersection of AUTA and Amazon's broader technical talent strategy. You will operate at the nexus of high-volume execution and strategic transformation, leading through a period where the SDE-I profile is actively evolving toward AI-first capabilities, evaluation models are shifting from fungible to business-aligned, and the competitive landscape for top engineering talent requires Amazon to differentiate through innovation speed, meaningful work, and early engagement with students in their academic journey.

Basic Qualifications

- 10+ years of Recruiting or HR experience
- 10+ years of Talent Acquisition experience
- 5+ years of direct people leadership experience
- 3+ years of managing managers experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent
- Experience in Recruiting or HR
- Experience building, coaching and managing a recruiting team
- Experience creating and executing effective talent acquisition strategies
- Experience working with recruiting tools and systems, including resume databases, internet sourcing tools, and spreadsheets
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team
- 4+ years of recruiting mid to high-level tech talent in competitive markets experience
- Experience in university or campus recruiting at scale, particularly for software engineering or technical roles

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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