Additional Information
The Principal, Talent Management is a senior individual contributor who designs, leads, and scales enterprise-wide talent management strategies and programs. This role operates with significant autonomy in highly ambiguous environments, driving talent management initiatives across multiple business units or geographies. The Principal, Talent Management serves as a recognized subject-matter expert and trusted advisor to senior leaders (Director and VP level), shaping the talent agenda and influencing long-term workforce strategy.
Come Build How Amazon Grows Its Best People
Amazon doesn't just hire great talent - we obsess over how to develop, retain, and grow it. Our Talent Management team builds the programs, systems, and strategies that shape the employee experience for over 1.5 million people worldwide. This is where people science meets product thinking at a scale no other company can match.
We're looking for a Program Manager who sees ambiguity as an invitation, not an obstacle. Someone who can take a complex, cross-functional challenge - spanning product, UX, engineering, and analytics - and turn it into a program with clear strategy, measurable outcomes, and executive-level visibility. You won't inherit a playbook. You'll write one.
Key job responsibilities
- Enterprise Talent Strategy: Design and own the end-to-end talent management strategy for the enterprise, including talent evaluation, high-potential identification and retention, performance management and AI-enhanced talent experiences.
- Organizational Health & Insights: Leverage data and analytics to diagnose organizational health trends, identify talent risks, and develop proactive interventions. Translate complex talent data into actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Talent Evaluation & Calibration: Design talent evaluation and calibration processes, ensuring consistency, fairness, and alignment with role guidelines and leadership principles.
- Growth & Development: Architect and implement scalable growth & development programs that accelerate the growth of high-value talent and address capability gaps across the organization.
- Cross-Functional Influence: Drive alignment and adoption of talent management best practices across organizations and geographies. Build consensus among diverse stakeholders on complex, ambiguous talent challenges.
- Mechanisms & Scalability: Create scalable mechanisms, tools, and frameworks that raise the bar on talent management practices and can be adopted broadly across the company.
- Change Management: Lead change management efforts related to talent programs, ensuring effective communication, stakeholder engagement, and adoption at scale.
Amazon.com · Seattle, WA