Andrew Willingham Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Partner with recruiting leadership to develop multi-year, enterprise-level strategy, including how to optimize costs and deliver world’s best experience for recruiters and candidates.
• Lead a global, cross-functional product development team of 250 who own experiences touched by hundreds of thousands of candidates, recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers.

Seattle, WA, US

• Introduced an integrated, multi-year talent management, technology, and product strategy that addressed the highest impact people challenges facing worldwide Amazon Stores.
• Partnered with Amazon Stores CEO, his directs, and VP+ HR leaders to evolve people processes including talent evaluation, VP promotion, succession planning, organizational design and effectiveness.
• Led a global, cross-functional team of 350. Promoted two directs to L8/executive level and hired an external L8.

Seattle, WA, US

• Developed strategy that aligned product development with highest impact people challenges facing the worldwide Amazon Stores organization.
• Successfully launched multiple talent products to solve enterprise-wide challenges.
• Hired and developed a high-performing leadership team, including promoting directs to Sr. Software Development Manager (L7) and Sr. Manager, Technical Program Management (L7)

Seattle, WA, US

• Realized a multi-year talent management product and technical strategy to support worldwide operations, Amazon’s largest and fastest growing organization.
• Founded one of the first product development teams in HR, grew the team from 2 members to 150 over two years.

Seattle, WA, US

• Evangelized strategies across multiple VP organizations to support Amazon Spark, a social shopping experience inside the Amazon Mobile App.
• Prioritized technical requirements to support customer acquisition, engagement, and content creation.
• Hired and developed a team of nine technical product managers and marketers.

Seattle, WA, US

• I launched social commerce features including #AmazonCart, #AmazonWishList, and Snapchat Deals.
• I partnered with Instagram to display user-generated content on Amazon's retail website.
• I built experiences designed to connect customers based on their hobbies and interests.

Seattle, WA, US

• I built technology to acquire and engage Amazon App users.
• I led the creation of the first service at Amazon that deeplinked mobile traffic into the Amazon App, which was an important driver of Amazon App acquisition and engagement.
• I led world-wide launch marketing for Prime Instant Video within the Amazon App.

• Led product, sales, and growth strategy for IKKOS, an early-stage startup that produced physical movement training software and hardware used by some of the world’s most successful athletes and coaches.

• Partnered with creators and brands to develop innovative and engaging customer experiences.
• Clients included Coca-Cola, Nike, Opal, and #1 world-wide mobile app Songify.
• The award-winning projects I worked on have been enjoyed by tens of millions of users.

• I co-founded the official Santa Clara University Pep Band.
• I oversaw all aspects of daily operations, secured funding, and grew membership from 4 to 40+.

Santa Clara, CA, US

• I served as one of 25 Orientation Leaders.
• I conducted orientation programs for incoming students, answered questions for parents and students, and helped in the planning and implementation of these two-day events.

M.S., Music Technology

B.A., Music Composition