Amazon · 1 month ago
Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team
Culver City, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$113K/yr - $187K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is seeking an experienced HR professional to architect their executive talent strategy for the Entertainment business. This role involves influencing talent development and management processes while collaborating closely with senior executives and HR partners.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
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
You will be a talent advisor to both business and HR leaders, and ensure we are constantly improving and scaling the services we provide
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
Learning your clients’ business, understanding their priorities, and recommending the best talent activities to help them meet their business customer needs
Building relationships and earning trust as a talent expert
Partnering with central team talent leaders, HR business partners, and business leaders and executives
Innovating with both simple yet creative solutions to address talent challenges
Operating with high judgment
Determine what gets done first and why, while managing a plan for what to do with everything else
Using 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
Resourcefulness
If you don’t know it, that’s ok. But you should know where to go for the answer or how to find out
Build cross-Amazon partnerships with Talent Management peers and within central Amazon PXT and Talent teams
Medium term projects include: leading our organization through talent processes (Q1 is our busiest talent season), evolving approaches to talent management for Entertainment talent, developing relevant internal communications mechanisms, and rethinking and redesigning talent management for professional creatives
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Knowledge of compensation/total rewards, talent management, performance management, compliance, and organization design and development
HR or Talent Development project management experience
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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