Maggie Yen Smith

Role
Principal & Head of Executive Recruiting for Devices & Services at Amazon
Location
Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Maggie Yen Smith

With over 15 years of experience, I specialize in executive recruiting, focusing on…

Experience

  1. Principal & Head of Executive Recruiting for Devices & Services

    Amazon

    Jan 2010 — Present

    I currently lead the Executive Recruiting for Devices & Services business with a team of tenured Principals, Sr. Recruiters and Researchers- Own and deliver a portfolio of cross-functional goals for senior leaders’ organizations - Lead challenging/ambiguous searches and work on most impactful senior recruiting problems - Serve as a trusted adviser to leaders/senior candidates; operate with complete independence and discretion - Previously led Executive Recruiting for Amazon China for all businesses and functions: AWS, Consumer & Ops, Devices & Services, Business/Corp Dev, Finance, Legal, Public Policy, and HR - Joined the Executive Recruiting team in 2010; executed searches across all businesses/functions, helped build up and train the team, developed and launched executive recruiting wiki with SOPs and templates - Delivered over 200+ senior leader searches globally since joining Amazon Amazon strives to be the world’s most customer-centric company, where customers can research and purchase anything they might want online or offline. We set big goals and are looking for people who can help us reach and exceed them. The Amazon Device and Services team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including Kindle eReaders, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo, Ring, Blink, Eero, Halo, Kuiper and Zoox. We are also the home of Alexa, a cloud-based intelligent voice assistant, to provide information, answer questions, play music, control your smart home and much more. Alexa is integrated into many of our products and partner products and many thousands of devices work with Alexa. Every day, we invent on behalf of our customers, partners, and communities. Our vision is ambient intelligence, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to weave together devices and services in a way that offers more value than any one product could on its own—at home or on the go. Our customers inspire us, and they’ve been at the heart of how we invent and evolve our products.

Education

  • University of Central Oklahoma

    MBA, Finance

  • University of Central Oklahoma

    BA, Finance

Skills

  • Start-Ups
  • Strategy
  • Talent Acquisition
  • Venture Capital
  • Management
  • Executive Management
  • Consulting
  • Change Management
  • Sourcing
  • Business Development
  • Business Strategy
  • Professional Services
  • Leadership Development
  • Search
  • Leadership
  • Saas
  • Organizational Development
  • Recruiting
  • Executive Search
  • Talent Management
  • New Business Development

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