Principal Talent Management, Amazon Talent & Compensation

About the role

The Principal, Product Manager in Talent Management is a senior individual contributor who designs, leads, and scales enterprise-wide talent management strategies and programs. This role operates with significant autonomy in highly ambiguous environments, driving talent management initiatives across multiple business units or geographies.

Amazon doesn't just hire great talent — we obsess over how to develop, retain, and grow it. Our Talent Management team builds the programs, systems, and strategies that shape the employee experience for over 1.5 million people worldwide.

Responsibilities

Key job responsibilities include:

• Design and own the end-to-end talent management strategy for the enterprise, including talent evaluation, high-potential identification and retention, performance management, and AI-enhanced talent experiences.
• Own the product vision, roadmap, and delivery for talent management programs.
• Present product launches and program updates to PXT LT and executives monthly.
• Leverage data and analytics to diagnose organizational health trends, identify talent risks, and develop proactive interventions.
• Design talent evaluation and calibration processes, ensuring consistency, fairness, and alignment with role guidelines and leadership principles.
• Architect and implement scalable growth & development programs that accelerate the growth of high-value talent and address capability gaps across the organization.
• Drive experimentation and adoption of AI-powered talent experiences, partnering closely with engineering and technical teams to bring innovation from concept to production.
• Create scalable mechanisms, tools, and frameworks that raise the bar on talent management practices and can be adopted broadly across the company.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications include:

• 8+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience as a product manager or owner
• 10+ years of progressive experience in talent management, organizational development, HR business partnership, or a related field
• Demonstrates experience designing and implementing enterprise-wide talent management programs
• Experience advising and influencing senior leaders on talent strategy and organizational health
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to leverage data and voice of the customer to drive talent decisions and measure program effectiveness

Preferred qualifications include:

• Master's degree or advanced certification in a relevant discipline
• Experience with performance management systems, competency frameworks, and assessment methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to manage through influence rather than authority, building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $161,900.00 - $219,000.00 USD annually, depending on location.