About this role

Amazon is hiring a mid-level Recruiter in the people function based in Tokyo, Japan. The posting calls out experience with AWS.

Role: Recruiter
Function: people
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Employment: Full-time
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Department: Human Resources
Posted: May 29, 2026

Job description

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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Talent Acquisition team is seeking a talented, customer-focused Recruiter who will work with a team of Sourcers, Recruiters and Recruiting Coordinators focusing on the areas of candidate talent search, process improvement and will act as Recruiter for supported business.

They will foster a collaborative team ensuring delivery of efficient, effective, quality driven service to internal customers and meets customer SLAs. Build and maintain network of potential technical candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.

Job Responsibilities :

- Skilled at partnering with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations
- Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within Amazon's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.
- Articulate in writing a plan with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process.
- Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives, including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.
- Strong communication skills, organizational and negotiation skills, with a keen focus on delivering business results.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of technical recruiting in high volume and high hiring bar environment experience
- Experience building candidate sourcing and closing strategies

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

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