Sr Recruiting Business Partner, Amazon University Talent Acquisition

The Recruiting Business Partner is AUTAs single-threaded strategic advisor to the business. You will own the university hiring advisory relationship with senior business leaders across multiple lines of business translating their evolving workforce priorities into early talent strategies and recommendations that AUTAs delivery and demand teams execute against. This is not a delivery role. You are not filling requisitions managing pipelines or running interview logistics. You are the person business leaders rely on to make sense of the early talent landscape pressure-test their assumptions and ensure their hiring strategies are grounded in market reality.

You will develop demand planning recommendations tailored to each business you support adjusting as their needs shift across hiring cycles. This means staying ahead of addressable market trends surfacing insights on candidate availability and competitive dynamics and converting those insights into strategies your stakeholders can act on. You will own AUTAs narrative to the business: quality of hire conversion data university stratgies and any changes to AUTA processes that impact stakeholders or pipeline.

Key job responsibilities
Partner with business leaders and talent acquisition leadership to define early talent requirements and build demand planning reports with clear deliverables timelines and tracking mechanisms
Ensure demand is accurately captured distributed and audited for alignment with approved projections
Own the resolution of complex staffing changes mid-cycle and escalate to senior stakeholders where needed
Own the business relationship through the full hiring calendar: season kickoff communications cross-business reviews covering demand fill progress conversion and risk and year-on-year postmortems that feed next-season blueprints
Provide business context to AUTAs delivery managers while keeping delivery execution in their lane
Manage the intern-to-full-time conversion process from the business side: setting expectations on evaluation timelines confirming headcount and placement and coordinating solutions when original placements are no longer viable
Serve as the voice of the business inside AUTA channeling stakeholder feedback into program design delivery and enablement
Create and distribute stakeholder communications for program launches policy changes and process updates
Develop and own change management plans for business-impacting initiatives

A day in the life
Your morning starts with data: pulling demand and fill metrics updating reporting inputs and flagging risks before the leadership review. You check Slack and email for hiring manager questions about return offers requisition changes and process updates. Mid-morning you join a workforce planning conversation with a talent acquisition partner then sync with RBP peers to share trends and problem-solve. After lunch you field ad hoc requests: pipeline updates candidate routing questions start timing. You draft your weekly flash to stakeholders. Late afternoon you partner with internal teams on process improvements before a final check on messages.

About the team
The AUTA RBP team is a small tight-knit group of strategic partners who operate with a high degree of autonomy and trust. We are direct with each other share problems openly and solve them together. We move fast lead with data and hold ourselves accountable to the businesses we support. We are constantly looking for ways to simplify how we work whether that means improving a process challenging an assumption or building AI tools that make us sharper in our roles. If you want a team where your voice matters and your impact is visible this is it.

- 5 years of corporate and or search firm progressive recruiting including full life cycle recruiting experience

- Experience across other functional areas of talent acquisition ideally diversity recruiting research or analytics
- Experience building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools including proactive phone and internet research

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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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 WA Seattle - 137900.00 - 186500.00 USD annually

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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