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Description

The Principal, Talent Management and Org Effectiveness role will build a holistic, integrated talent strategy for the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) business, while rolling up their sleeves to deliver and own end-to-end organization wide org effectiveness solutions.

The Principal will conduct organization level analyses to uncover meaningful insights on critical talent and organizational issues and opportunities for improving talent leverage and organizational speed and execution. They will partner closely with our HR COEs, Amazon Global Talent Management COE, HR leaders and business leaders to drive organizational design efforts, and build/manage talent and career growth programs.

Key job responsibilities

Organizational Analysis, Design, and Development:

Conduct organizational analysis to uncover talent and org effectiveness insights and build talent and organizational effectiveness solutions (both scrappy or long-term) and mechanisms with the objective to help the business increase talent leverage and improve organizational speed and execution.

Partner with senior HR and business leaders to assess the need for org design/re-design efforts, defining org design criteria, evaluating org design alternatives, and implementing org changes; work with our central Amazon Global Talent Management (GTM) team to identify needs for building automated tools and technology for inspecting organizations and reviewing organizational structure scenarios.

Continuously monitor ongoing organizational spans and layers reporting and work closely with HR leaders on addressing organizational spans issues to maintain the right organizational structure and evaluate the impact of spans and layers changes.

Talent Management, Assessment, and Review:

Build innovative, scalable talent assessment and review mechanisms to grow and retain critical senior leader talent, including rotating senior leader talent in to hard-to-fill critical, global roles.

Design the overall talent review strategy which includes promotions, succession planning, talent development, long term talent planning, organizational reviews, and diversity and inclusion; design a holistic system for talent programs that deliver meaningful insight on critical talent issues and builds a strong and diverse senior leader bench and pipeline; this includes strong inputs, simplified processes, and actionable outcomes, feeding one talent process to another throughout the year.

Partner with our Analytics team to automate talent reporting and building innovative tools to uncover talent insights and drive strategic talent discussions.

A day in the life

The AGI PXT Transformation team diagnoses, designs for, and delivers innovative change management and organization development solutions to drive positive transformations across the business. Our mission is to create human-centered transformation experiences that position AGI team members to do the best work of their lives, while raising the bar on delivering for customers.

We are building a team ready to tackle a broad array of problems at the intersection of business and builder imperatives. We operate as complementary to a dedicated business owner, augmenting their team’s efforts and driving end-to-end transformation. We work collaboratively with other groups to drive business impact together.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at Amazon, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Hybrid Work

We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model at our Seattle, WA (SEA41) Amazon office.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of experience leading relevant talent programs, including experience leading cross-functional, global projects.

• 5+ years’ experience working as a business partner, and driving organizational change initiatives and developing talent management plans for global organization teams

• Excellent written and verbal communication; high quality document preparation, data visualization, and facilitation skills

• Experience in talent management and organizational design and development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Human Resources or MBA

• Exceptional analytical skills, comfortable working with large amounts of data and communicating data findings, including experience establishing and tracking program metrics

• Proven success in a large fast paced, preferably technology-driven, organization

• Previous experience leading in a matrix environment (ideally internationally)

• Strong business acumen and ability to work well across different functions in order to integrate HR and business strategies

• Experience identifying and resolving issues independently, will take initiative even under unfamiliar or ambiguous circumstances. Strong bias for action and “get stuff done” attitude.

• Understanding of experimental design and testing of ideas that justifies ROI on solutions.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.