Jeffrey Sideno
Recruiting Manager
Mukilteo,WA
Summary
Recruiting Manager with a proven track record at Amazon in both the US and Japan, excelling in global talent acquisition, leading agile recruiting teams, and strategic recruiting delivery. Recognized for data-driven decision-making and team leadership, driving significant improvements in hiring efficiency and candidate diversity across multiple sales and technical business units. Recently championed the adoption of AI recruiting tools in the organization, achieving 95% usage among recruiters.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Recruiting Manager - Strategic Delivery Team
Amazon
Seattle, WA
12.2024 - Current
- Transferred to support Amazon Ads business, building first agile sourcing model in the the Amazon Ads Talent Acquisition organization. Built SOPs, engagement model, and productivity metrics for newly established recruiting organization
- Onboarded, hired, and managed performance of 10 full-time recruiters, and 70 contract recruiters. Owned relationships with multiple contract vendors to ensure recruiting delivery across Amazon Ads business hiring
- Directly lead 20 technical sourcing recruiters team focused on Software Development Engineering II recruiting, responsible and delivering over 40 SDE II hires per month
- Authored deep dive analysis of SDE II hiring evolution at Amazon in the age of Generative AI. Analyzed the impact of Generative AI on hiring expectations, Amazon's assessment process, and internal and external factors impacting Amazon's ability to hire top of class SDE talent
- Managing recruiting delivery across sales, marketing, software development, technical program management, product management, and ad policy requisitions across Amazon Ads business teams
- Responsible for adoption and building of Recruiting AI tools across Strategic Delivery Team organization, with 95% percent tool adoption across over 80 recruiters. Leading the building of Recruiting AI usage tenets to establish standards and principles around responsible AI tool usage for the organization
Recruiting Manager - Central Agile Sourcing Team
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, WA
04.2023 - 11.2024
- Developed, implemented, and executed organization AWS-wide programs focused on CRM optimization and utilization, enhancing over 3M candidate records. Built new processes and SOPs for best-practice utilization, leading to 34% improved time-to-fill and recruiter readiness upon requisition opening
- Initial member of Central Agile Sourcing organization, building process and engagement model with leadership to improve recruiter fungibility and utilization to ensure recruiters across the organization were focused in high-priority hiring needs and productivity was maximized.
- Built organization wide recruiting metrics and dashboards to give full visibility of recruiter productivity and system usage to Talent Acquisition leadership
- Led multiple recruiting engagements with full-time and contract recruiters of teams up to 20 recruiters to fill urgent recruiting needs for Applied Scientists, AWS Data Center Engineers, Software Development Engineers, and AWS Solution Architects
- AWS Talent Acquisition Award Winner for organization wide initiatives and Amazon Leadership Principles
Recruiting Manager - Lead Generation Team - Professional Services
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, USA
08.2021 - 03.2023
- Lead a team of 25 Lead Generation Specialists (50 at peak) driving top of funnel, recruiting pipeline through Recruiter Phone Screen bookings for positions in the AWS Professional Services team
- Built processes, metrics, reporting cadence and SOPs for the group and helping scale to other adjacent Lead Generation Teams in the Sales, Marketing and Support organizations
- Hired, onboarded, mentored and managed Lead Generation Specialists on the team. Team providing upwards of 25 percent TA organization lift to Offer Accepts per month and 1500 Recruiter Phone Screens booked per month, targeting passive candidate talent in the Cloud Computing Market
- Key member of programs designed to scale and empower organization such as Lead Generation, Diversity Outreach, Recruiting Process Outsourcing, Dupe Check Program, Boomerang and Revive Candidate Outreach.
Recruiting Manager - Lead Generation Pilot Project - Sales, Sales Operations, Business Development
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, USA
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Ideated and built Lead Generation pilot with 4 members supporting the Sales, Sales Operations and Business Development in AWS Talent Acquisition.
- Developed SOPs, metrics, and process for the group moving from a Researching function to a Recruiter Phone Screen booking team which accelerated pipeline and time to hire.
- For most difficult and niche candidate profiles, reduced time to hire by nearly 65 percent. Drove diversity hiring with 50 percent increase in diverse candidates in Sales, Sales Operations, and Business Development.
- Presented model to AWS TA Leadership and adopted by entire Sales, Marketing and Support organization and Lead Generation Central Team built in 2022.
Sourcing Recruiter - Sales, Sales Operations, Business Development/Professional Services
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, USA
06.2018 - 01.2020
- Transferred to US Talent Acquisition team as a Sourcing Recruiter to get hands-on recruiting experience in the US to dive deep in to process, systems and recruiting market.
- Transformed US Sales Operations recruiting process for team that had missed hiring target for 2 years previous year. Helped drive adoption of new recruiting process and built relationships across all levels of the Sales Operations leadership. Exceeded hiring target and became an example for other Sales Operations organizations in AWS.
Recruiting Manager, Amazon Web Services
Amazon Japan G.K.
Tokyo, Japan
04.2016 - 06.2018
- Directly leading team responsible for recruitment of all Amazon Web Services Japan employees at the mid-career and new graduate level.
- Recruiting candidates in Sales, Marketing, Solution Architecture, Professional Services, Training, Business Development, Support and Infrastructure.
- Work directly with AWS Japan leadership to define, strategize, plan, implement, drive and scale talent growth.
- Engage and work with global AWS Talent Acquisition leadership to represent and support AWS Japan's unique and local requirements.
- Champion and drive global recruitment processes in Japan and bring local Japan practices to other regions.
- Establish AWS specific campus recruiting efforts in Japan.
- Build and nurture new and existing recruitment channels focused on diversifying candidate pools, increasing candidate pipeline and lowering recruitment costs.
- Moved team from 50+% recruitment agency usage to 12% agency usage in one year by establishing direct recruiting model.
- Hired 230+ AWS builders in 2016-2017 and 340+ AWS builders in 2017-2018.
- Expanded campus recruiting efforts from 1 profile (Technical Support) to 4 profiles (Sales, Solution Architecture, Marketing, Technical Support).
Partner, Technology Team
Optia Partners K.K.
Tokyo, Japan
10.2006 - 04.2016
- Managed 8 member Technology Recruiting team (1 senior consultant, 3 junior consultants and 4 researchers), hiring and training senior consultants, junior consultants and researchers in full cycle recruiting.
- Created and drove recruiting process innovations, improvements and changes such as new sourcing strategies, territory definition, functional focus, client account management and researcher system.
- Worked hand-in-hand with ownership and executive management to create and drive vision, mission and values of Optia Partners.
- Team and personal responsibility for end-to-end recruiting for sales, marketing and technical positions in the Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), Software as a Service (SAAS), Enterprise and Infrastructure software industry.
- Sample of Positions Placed: Director at Global E-Commerce Company, Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales at Leading Infrastructure as a Service Company, Partner Development Director at a Virtualization Software Company, Partner Sales Director at a SAAS CRM Provider, Solution Architect at a Virtualization Software Company, Sales Operations Manager at a Consumer Software and Hardware Provider, Sales Director at a Mobile Software Provider, Sales Manager at a SAAS Web Analytics provider, Lead Generation Manager at a SAAS CRM Provider.
English Teacher
Margaret Gaigo Gakuin
Chiba, Japan
01.2006 - 10.2006
- Taught English to students from 2 years of age to adults.
- Created lesson plans and materials for each class.
Lead Software Analyst
Sega of America
San Francisco, USA
06.1999 - 01.2006
- Responsible for quality assurance of Sega video games for the Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation 2, Microsoft Xbox, and Microsoft Xbox 360.
- Developed and implemented test plans for software in the alpha stage until final production stage.
- Managed testing teams of up to 35 people, directly managing up to 3 assistant managers.
- Created and managed bug databases of up to 1000 bugs, working directly with software developers, marketing and sales teams to ensure timely and bug free releases of Sega titles.
- Participated in marketing of Sega products at trade shows and sports events.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Asian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA05.2005
Skills
- Team leadership
- Performance management
- Strategic planning
- Data-driven decision-making
- Global talent acquisition
- Recruitment analytics
- AI and automation
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Timeline
Recruiting Manager - Strategic Delivery Team
Amazon
12.2024 - Current
Recruiting Manager - Central Agile Sourcing Team
Amazon Web Services
04.2023 - 11.2024
Recruiting Manager - Lead Generation Team - Professional Services
Amazon Web Services
08.2021 - 03.2023
Recruiting Manager - Lead Generation Pilot Project - Sales, Sales Operations, Business Development
Amazon Web Services
01.2020 - 01.2021
Sourcing Recruiter - Sales, Sales Operations, Business Development/Professional Services
Amazon Web Services
06.2018 - 01.2020
Recruiting Manager, Amazon Web Services
Amazon Japan G.K.
04.2016 - 06.2018
Partner, Technology Team
Optia Partners K.K.
10.2006 - 04.2016
English Teacher
Margaret Gaigo Gakuin
01.2006 - 10.2006
Lead Software Analyst
Sega of America
06.1999 - 01.2006
Bachelor of Arts - Asian Studies
University of California, Berkeley