Executive Talent Lead, Entertainment — Talent Strategy

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Entertainment is seeking an experienced HR leader to architect the executive talent strategy across music, games, podcasts, and other media. You will work directly with senior executives, shaping workforce transformations as AI evolves the business.

This role focuses on executive coaching, organizational design, and talent reviews, not traditional recruiting. You’ll partner with HR Business Partners and central Talent leads to evolve talent processes, manage ambiguity, and communicate

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 process, change management, and communications.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Executive coaching

Strategic HR

Change management

Project management

Executive-level partnership

Communication (verbal & written)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business/HR/Engineering or related field

Job description

Amazon Entertainment is seeking an experienced HR leader to architect the executive talent strategy across music, games, podcasts, and other media. You will work directly with senior executives, shaping workforce transformations as AI evolves the business.

This role focuses on executive coaching, organizational design, and talent reviews, not traditional recruiting. You’ll partner with HR Business Partners and central Talent leads to evolve talent processes, manage ambiguity, and communicate