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