Amazon is hiring: Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience

Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team

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.

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.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong systems thinker with strong business acumen, ownership, grit, and drive for results.
• Demonstrated track record of talent management execution, including designing overall talent review strategy focused on business‑critical talent issues, succession planning, talent development, long‑term talent planning, and organizational reviews.
• Ability to embrace ambiguity and build structure where processes don’t yet exist, understanding all connections and integration points through the entire talent management lifecycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting to executive and C‑suite leaders.
• Curiosity about the business, learning clients’ priorities, and recommending the best talent activities to help them meet their customer needs.
• Building relationships and earning trust as a talent expert with central team talent leaders, HR business partners, and business leaders and executives.
• Innovating with simple yet creative solutions to address talent challenges.
• Operating with high judgment,