Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition
Sr. Manager, Design, Talent Acquisition-Tech Job ID: 10497725 | Amazon.com Services LLC
Hiring is one of the most consequential decisions a person makes or receives, and the tools that power it are becoming genuinely agentic. We are seeking a Senior Manager of UX to lead the design and research organization behind our hiring portfolio at exactly this inflection point.
This is a rare leadership role. The products your team shapes increasingly act on behalf of the people who use them: drafting job descriptions, surfacing candidates, generating assessments, flagging risks, and moving work forward. The underlying systems are probabilistic.
The experiences your team designs must not be. Your core challenge is building and leading a team that can translate AI systems operating on confidence, inference, and ranked signals into interactions that feel trustworthy, purposeful, and in control — where users understand what the system did, why, and what happens next.
You are a people leader with dual accountability: you own experience strategy across the full hiring portfolio, and you build the team, culture, and craft bar that make world-class work repeatable — not dependent on any one person. You partner as a peer with Principal Engineers, senior PMs, and Research and Product leaders from strategy through launch. You influence product direction and long-term business strategy, and you set the quality bar by developing the people and mechanisms that hold it.
Key job responsibilities Lead and grow the UX organization. Build, structure, and develop a high-performing team of designers and researchers. Own hiring, org design, headcount planning, and resourcing across the portfolio. Set clear performance expectations, give direct and developmental feedback, manage performance, and actively drive career growth — including contributions to the promotion process. Recruit and raise the bar on talent.
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