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Executive Recruiter

Amazon
mid-level
Location

London, United Kingdom

Work Type

Onsite

Seniority

mid-level

Posted

October 2, 2026


Total Compensation
€175,000
Yearly Savings (Comfortable)
€44,000
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Job Description

Who you are

  • Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive L8+ candidate generation
  • Experience building and driving passive L8+ talent sourcing initiatives and pipelines
  • Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team
  • Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships
  • Experience delivering L8+ talent across multiple industries and geographies, with demonstrable expert
  • Experience with executive recruiting in either a blue-chip, global in-house executive search team, or a top executive search firm
  • Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools, CRM systems, and complex spreadsheets

What the job involves

  • Amazon needs an Executive Recruiter to help the business scale by recruiting senior leaders across EMEA
  • Few rewards in search match seeing your hired candidates drive a positive, measurable impact on the business
  • The Executive Recruiter owns and executes the research strategy senior-level (L8+) searches
  • Qualified candidates are strong across the full search lifecycle, with a particular focus on research strategy development, market & candidate mapping/ identification, candidate sourcing, generation, development and engagement
  • You will partner with senior recruiters on the most complex Director searches and lead your own searches end to end
  • Conducting research to map target companies and top talent for Amazon
  • Building search strategies to identify and attract strong candidates
  • Improving how Amazon recruits talent
  • Calibrating candidates with other recruiters and hiring managers
  • Developing prospects into candidates through engagement and assessment
  • Contributing to GSR's knowledge base by sharing insight on relevant industries and talent pools
  • Building talent networks and tapping industry sources to maintain a candidate pipeline
  • Leading update meetings on active searches with hiring managers
  • Partnering with hiring managers and senior recruiters to guide search decisions
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