Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team

About the role

The role is part of the Amazon People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization – we build a workplace for Amazonians to invent and deliver on behalf of customers. PXT for Amazon Entertainment supports a portfolio of entertainment businesses that span film, TV, live sports, music, podcasts, games, audiobooks, livestreaming, and other media content. The Entertainment PXT team focuses on the inputs that attract, grow, and retain creative, technical, and business talent at scale. We customize for unique Entertainment business and industry needs where necessary and scale where possible and applicable. Our Entertainment employees deliver world-class products and services for playing, listening, watching, and streaming in an ever-immersive entertainment environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and continuously evolve Entertainment’s talent reviews and cyclical processes in close partnership with HR Business Partners, business leaders, analytics teams, and central Amazon talent leads.
• Design the overall talent review strategy focused on business-critical talent issues, which includes succession planning, talent development, long term talent planning, organizational reviews (and integrate with diversity and inclusion).
• Enhance and revisit executive level talent activities (Talent reviews, Career development, organizational capacity planning).
• Embrace ambiguity, and build structure where processes don’t yet exist. Understand all the connections and integration points through the entire talent management lifecycle, and using your program management expertise to lead the organization through these activities.
• Communicate with multiple stakeholders with concise, clear written and verbal methods. We are a document-heavy culture, which means we write, a lot, to share our ideas, our proposals, and everything else.
• Curiosity about your business. Learn your clients' business, understand their priorities, and recommend the best talent activities to help them meet their business customer needs.
• Build relationships and earn trust as a talent expert. Partner with central team talent leaders, HR business partners, and business leaders and executives.
• Innovate with both simple yet creative solutions to address talent challenges.
• Operate with high judgment. There will be a constant flow of work, both tactical and strategic. Determine what gets done first and why, while managing a plan for what to do with everything else.
• Use research and data to inform your recommendations. We seek to be the most scientific HR organization in the world. We form hypotheses about the best talent management techniques and then set out to prove or disprove them with experiments and careful data collection. We pilot new ideas, measure and seek feedback, iterate and continuously improve.
• Be resourceful. If you don’t know it, that’s ok. But you should know where to go for the answer or how to find out.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business, Program Management, Human Resources, Employment Law, Computer Science, Finance, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, Operations Research or a related field
• 5+ years of HR, talent acquisition, management consulting, or project/program management experience
• Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Experience in verbal and written communication for executive level leaders
• Proven track record of end-to-end ownership of operational process, change management, and communications.