Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team

About the role

Amazon Entertainment is seeking an experienced HR professional to architect our executive talent strategy for our Entertainment business – where creative-meets-technology-meets business across music, games, podcasts, and other mediums of entertainment.

This person will work directly with our senior Entertainment executives as we go all in with AI and shape the workforce transformation that’s to come. The ideal candidate will have experience as an HR Business Partner to senior executives, with strong business acumen, executive coaching expertise, organization design, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and robust project management capabilities.

Responsibilities

The Executive Talent Lead’s responsibilities include building and continuously evolving 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)
• Embracing ambiguity, and building 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
• Communicating with multiple stakeholders with concise, clear written and verbal methods

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated track record of talent management execution, be a strong systems thinker with strong business acumen, ownership, grit, and drive for results.

• 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

Qualifications

Preferred qualifications include knowledge of compensation/total rewards, talent management, performance management, compliance, and organization design and development, as well as HR or Talent Development project management experience.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. The base salary range for this position is $125,800.00 - $170,200.00 USD annually, with sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) also included in the package.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $125,800.00 - $170,200.00 USD annually, with sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) also included in the package.