Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team

Executive Talent Lead

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 is an opportunity to influence how one of the world's most innovative companies develops its talent for the future. You'll work directly with our senior Entertainment executives as we go all in with AI and shape the workforce transformation that's to come. This is not a talent acquisition or recruiting role. Those with 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 often have the right translatable skills to be successful in this role. This person will also be comfortable with presenting regularly with executive and C-suite leaders, with the confidence to facilitate debate with leaders at this level. The right person for this role needs to thrive in dealing with a high level of ambiguity and feeling comfortable operating in a space with little direction for solving complex talent and organizational business problems. While we align with existing Amazon timelines on high level core talent activities (e.g., evaluation and assessment, promotions, annual talent reviews), this leader will help evolve our talent processes to fit Entertainment talent needs using creativity to design, build, and manage process execution for our Entertainment executives.

About the Business :

The role is part of the Amazon People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization we build a workplace for Amazonians to invent and deliver on behalf of customers. PXT for Amazon Entertainment supports a portfolio of entertainment businesses that span film, TV, live sports, music, podcasts, games, audiobooks, livestreaming, and other media content. The Entertainment PXT team focuses on the inputs that attract, grow, and retain creative, technical, and business talent at scale. We customize for unique Entertainment business and industry needs where necessary and scale where possible and applicable. Our Entertainment employees deliver world-class products and services for playing, listening, watching, and streaming in an ever-immersive entertainment environment.

Key Job Responsibilities

This 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. You will be a talent advisor to both business and HR leaders, and ensure we are constantly improving and scaling the services we provide.

The ideal candidate must be a strong systems thinker with strong business acumen, ownership, grit, and drive for results. A successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of :

• Talent management execution. 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. We are a document-heavy culture, which means we write, a lot, to share our ideas, our proposals, and everything else.
• Curiosity about your business. 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. There will be a constant flow of work, both tactical and strategic. 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.

A Day in the Life

This leader will quickly earn trust with HR peers, HR senior leaders, and business line leaders, and get deep in understanding specific areas of the Entertainment business. You will 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.

About the Team

This Executive Talent Lead will be part of the Entertainment PXT Talent Experience Team. Our purpose is to create and deliver talent programs that help us be Earth's Best Employer by focusing on the employee experience from joining Amazon Entertainment, to building connection with each other and our customers, through growing personally and professionally, to being empowered to balance fun, wellness, and learning to sustain a long, fulfilling career with Amazon.