Sr. Leadership Development Business Partner, Selling Partner Services

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Leadership Development Business Partner to guide and architect high-impact learning solutions that shape the next generation of leaders. You will partner with senior stakeholders, design curricula, and drive measurable business impact in a global context.

The role emphasizes strategic vision, practical execution, and the ability to scale leadership development across geographies while mentoring others and building best practices.

Qualifications

• Experience using business metrics and training data to track impact.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and present to international leaders.
• Experience designing, delivering and evaluating leadership development programs.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior stakeholders to identify leadership development needs across geographies and propose solutions.
• Design and manage complex leadership curricula aligning with goals to drive behavior change.
• Incorporate innovative approaches and technologies for impactful learning experiences.
• Lead data-driven decision making by establishing metrics and analyzing outcomes.
• Influence strategic direction of leadership initiatives with evidence-based recommendations.
• Negotiate priorities and resources across competing demands.
• Architect end-to-end learning experiences that scale across the organization.
• Mentor others and develop standards to scale leadership development.

Skills

Business metrics

Stakeholder influence

L&D measurement

Facilitation

Program management

Global cross-functional teams

Executive coaching awareness

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Instructional Systems Design/Adult Learning/Learning & Development/HR

Master's degree in business/organizational development (preferred)

Tools

Articulate

Job description

We are seeking an exceptional Leadership Development Business Partner to guide, architect, and drive high-impact learning solutions that shape the next generation of leaders. This role offers an opportunity to influence organizational excellence at scale while solving complex business challenges through innovative learning approaches.

Key job responsibilities

This role offers collaboration with significant autonomy, and the opportunity to make an impact on Amazon's leadership culture. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguous environments, demonstrates excellent judgment, facilitation, and communication skills, and possesses both strategic vision and practical execution capabilities.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with senior stakeholders to identify, assess, and address critical leadership development needs across multiple organizations and geographies, recommending solutions to enhance leader capability, engagement, culture, and performance
• Design and manage complex leadership development curricula that align with organizational goals and values to drive meaningful behavior change and measurable business impact
• Incorporate innovative approaches, tools, and technologies (e.g., experiential learning, executive roundtables, e-learning, immersive simulations) to deliver impactful learning experiences
• Lead data-driven decision making by establishing metrics, analyzing outcomes, and continuously improving program effectiveness
• Influence strategic direction of leadership development initiatives through compelling narratives and evidence-based recommendations
• Negotiate priorities and resources across competing organizational demands, making trade-offs between short- and long-term needs
• Architect end-to-end learning experiences that transform leadership capabilities before, during, and after formal training interventions
• Force multiply by mentoring and developing others, and by building standards and best practices that scale across the organization

Impact You'll Have:

• Advance leadership capability across client organizations, directly influencing org-level goals and business outcomes
• Improve solution-related metrics and the effectiveness of complex leadership curricula, with potential to shape a broader program portfolio
• Drive meaningful behavior change in leaders through scalable learning solutions
• Streamline and standardize best practices that raise the bar for how leadership development is delivered across teams

A day in the life

As a Leadership Development Business Partner, your days are about one thing: making leaders across Selling Partner Services better at leading. Some mornings you're sitting with a senior business leader, digging into the data to figure out what capabilities are most needed in their organization over the next 12 months. Other days you're designing a curriculum from scratch, facilitating a room full of managers, or piloting something new to see what moves the needle.

You'll partner with HRBPs, senior business leaders, your fellow LDBPs, org and regional L&D teams, and Employee Experience Partners. Your customers span the full leadership pipeline, from people managers to senior leaders, across multiple organizations and geographies. The problems are real and rarely tidy: how do leaders scale themselves, build manager capability that sticks, and strengthen the culture they create every day? You'll own the answers end to end and measure whether it worked.

About the team

The Leadership Institute is a global team dedicated to developing leaders across Selling Partner Services (SPS), a worldwide organization whose mission is to enable the long-term success of our selling partners, providing the most trusted shopping and selling experience and the solutions that accelerate their business growth.

We're embedded within a cross-functional HR team that brings together program management, dedicated data & analytics, research science, HR business partners, instructional design, and Leadership Development Business Partners all collaborating to support SPS united by a shared mission: to elevate our people-focused culture, drive meaningful business impact, and enable exceptional leadership through innovative, scalable people solutions. If that excites you, you'll help shape how leaders grow here.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Instructional Systems Design, Adult Learning, Learning & Development, HR or a related discipline
• Experience using business metrics and training data to track, trend, and manage the impact of training efforts
• Experience working with and influencing senior level stakeholders
• 5+ years of professional learning and development including needs analysis, instructional design, facilitation, program management, and measurement experience
• Experience leading stakeholder engagements and presentations with senior and international leaders
• Experience conceptualizing and delivering programs for large, cross-functional, global teams, using data and metrics to measure impact, provide insights, and drive improvements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or Master's degree in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
• Experience building manager capability in emerging or rapidly changing contexts (e.g., AI-augmented workplaces, large-scale change/transformation)
• Experience with industry-standard instructional design and authoring tools (e.g., Articulate) and multiple delivery modalities (instructor-led, digital, peer/cohort-based)
• Professional credentialing from the International Coaching Federation (e.g., ACC, PCC, or MCC)
• Assessment & Tool Certifications (Hogan, DiSC, EQi, Leadership Architect, MBTI, OCI, FIRO-B, etc.)
• 6+ years of experience designing and delivering leadership or management development programs
• Experience designing or scaling executive development and coaching programs for senior leaders

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 127,400.00 - 172,400.00 USD annually