Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team

About the role

The role is part of the Amazon People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization, supporting a portfolio of entertainment businesses that span music, games, podcasts, and other media content.

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.
• Talent advisor to both business and HR leaders, ensuring continuous improvement and scaling of services provided.
• Lead organization through talent processes, including talent reviews, career development, and organizational capacity planning.
• Design overall talent review strategy focused on business-critical talent issues, including succession planning, talent development, long-term talent planning, and organizational reviews.
• Enhance and revisit executive-level talent activities such as career development and organizational capacity planning.
• Embrace ambiguity and build structure where processes don’t yet exist, integrating with diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Communicate with multiple stakeholders using concise, clear written and verbal methods, understanding and addressing business priorities.
• Partner with central team talent leaders, HR business partners, and business leaders and executives to innovate with creative solutions to talent challenges.
• Operate with high judgment, determining what gets done first and why, while managing a plan for everything else.
• Use research and data to inform recommendations and continuously improve talent management processes.

Requirements

• 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.
• Proven track record of end-to-end ownership of operational processes, change management, and communications.

Qualifications

• Strong systems thinking and business acumen.
• Ownership, grit, and drive for results.
• Curiosity about the business and learning your clients' business.
• Building relationships and earning trust as a talent expert.
• Resourcefulness in finding answers and solutions.