Amazon’s Advertising IMDb and Grand Challenge (AIGC) Talent Management Team seeks a Talent Management Specialist to help build high impact programs that will help to improve the employee and manager experience at Amazon. The successful candidate will be data-driven and analytically minded. In this role, you will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting talent data to provide actionable insights to evaluate our processes and drive strategic talent program decisions across the organization. This position can be based in Seattle or New York, but will interact with business leaders and HR teams globally.
In this role, you will be responsible for developing global talent processes and programs, owning talent business reviews, and supporting talent deep-dives across the organization. This role offers an opportunity to influence global team processes and priorities.
Program management experience in HR is preferred and the successful candidate will have both a passion for, and a track record of leveraging insights to drive changes in talent programs, balancing competing priorities and thinking creatively to solve complex problems with innovative ideas.
Key job responsibilities
Using Amazon’s talent management framework, this role will be responsible for evaluating and providing recommendations on talent programs and priorities for AIGC. They will dive deep into our talent data to drive insights which will ensure we implement solutions that are seamless and can be adopted globally. As an HR Specialist, your daily work will be both strategic and tactical; you will set and drive long-term goals and also play an active role in implementation. This role will lead key studies in this space and identify opportunities to influence product road map of central teams. This requires working effectively with Talent Management, HR teams across AIGC, and partner teams in Global Talent Management.
A successful candidate will have strong writing and stakeholder management skills. They must have the ability to gather business requirements and partner with the various customers to plan, implement, and improve solutions. High judgment and the ability to influence stakeholders are essential.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Must Think Big and identify opportunities to scale, augment, or re-imagine our current talent programs to meet our customer needs
• Support research studies and talent actions related to improving talent evaluation processes and identify opportunities to experiment
• Liaison with the central talent management teams and product teams to influence and improve product roadmap, specifically as it relates to talent products
• Must be willing to be cross-trained on talent management processes and support specific aspects of cyclical talent management activities
• Identify and implement metrics for the measurement and analysis of program effectiveness
• Continuously seeking ways to improve the end-user experience with our content, communications, and resources across the team• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years in Program Management (Business or HR), Talent Management, Communications, or related experience.
• Proven track record of end-to-end ownership of operational process, change management, and communications.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects or programs- work prioritization, planning, and coordination across teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, and must be comfortable engaging with executive level leaders.• Graduate degree (Communications, Change Management MBA or HR related field) or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• HR or Talent Development project management experience
• Knowledge of core Talent Management programs including performance management, promotions, succession, and development.
• Previous experience working on career development and talent management initiatives
• Experience using program management resources such as Asana, SIM, Wiki, and Qualtrics
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $113,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $187,300/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.
