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Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team Job at Amazo
Amazon, Seattle, WA, US, 98127
Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team
Amazon Entertainment is seeking an experienced HR professional to architect our executive talent strategy for the Entertainment business – where creative, technology, and business intersect across music, games, podcasts and other entertainment mediums.
This role offers the opportunity to influence how one of the world’s most innovative companies develops its talent for the future. You’ll work directly with 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. Candidates should have experience as an HR Business Partner to senior executives, strong business acumen, executive coaching expertise, organization design, excellent written and verbal communication, and robust project management capabilities. Presenting regularly with executive and C‑suite leaders and facilitating debate with this level of leadership is essential.
The right person thrives in ambiguity and can operate in a space with little direction to solve complex talent and organizational problems. While we align with existing Amazon timelines on core talent activities—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, which builds a workplace for Amazonians to invent and deliver on behalf of customers. PXT for Amazon Entertainment supports a portfolio of entertainment businesses spanning 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, customizing for unique entertainment business and industry needs where necessary and scaling where possible.
Key Job 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; act as a talent advisor to both business and HR leaders, ensuring constant improvement and scaling of services.
Design the overall talent review strategy focused on business‑critical talent issues, including succession planning, talent development, long‑term talent planning, and organizational reviews (integrating diversity and inclusion).
Embrace ambiguity and build structure where processes don’t yet exist; understand all connections and integration points through the entire talent management lifecycle, leading the organization through these activities.
Communicate with multiple stakeholders using concise, clear written and verbal methods in a document‑heavy culture.
Show curiosity about the business; learn clients’ priorities and recommend the best talent activities to help them meet business needs.
Build relationships and earn trust as a talent expert, partnering with central team talent leaders, HR business partners, and business leaders and executives.
Innovate with simple yet creative solutions to address talent challenges.
Operate with high judgment, prioritizing work and managing a plan for everything else.
Use research and data to inform recommendations; conduct experiments, collect data, pilot new ideas, measure and iterate to improve.
Resourcefulness—know where to find answers or how to find them.
A Day in the Life
The leader will quickly earn trust with HR peers, senior leaders, and business line leaders, building deep understanding of specific entertainment areas. They will build cross‑Amazon partnerships with Talent Management peers and within central Amazon PXT and Talent teams. Medium‑term projects include leading the organization through talent processes (Q1 is the busiest talent season), evolving approaches to talent management for Entertainment talent, developing 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. The team’s 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, connecting with each other and our customers, to personal and professional growth, to being empowered to balance fun, wellness, and learning to sustain a long, fulfilling career.
Basic Qualifications
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 processes, change management, and communications.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of compensation/total rewards, talent management, performance management, compliance, and organization design and development.
HR or Talent Development project management experience.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
For applicants in Los Angeles County, job duties include working safely and cooperatively with other employees, adhering to standards of excellence, communicating effectively and respectfully, and following all federal, state, and local laws and company policies. Criminal history may impact duties that require adherence to company policies and sound judgment.
For more information about accommodations, visit Amazon’s accommodations page.
Base pay ranges from $113,300 to $187,300 per year, varying by location and experience. Additional equity, sign‑on payments, and benefits may also be part of the total compensation package.
The position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Job ID: A3137987
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