Sr Business Analyst People Analytics Entertainment PXT

Amazon has a culture of datadriven decisionmaking and demands business intelligence that is timely accurate and actionable. We are looking for a talented and experienced Sr. Business Analyst to join the People Analytics team for Entertainment People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization.

About the Role:
As a Sr. Business Analyst you will play a key role in driving datainformed decisionmaking across the Entertainment organization and beyond. You will understand the business and synthesize complex data from a variety of domains to create insights that have significant business impact. Youll collaborate with crossfunctional teamsincluding HR project/program leads data engineers and senior business leadersacting as both a builder and influencer.

In this role youll design and scale analytical tools dashboards and reporting solutions using large and complex data lake/warehouse environments. Youll build proofofconcept reporting tools and evolve adhoc data artifacts into scalable selfservice solutions. Your work will enable teams across Entertainment to make fast informed people decisions in a dynamic often ambiguous environment.

You are expected to become deeply familiar with the business strategy and contribute directly to shaping it through your insights. You proactively monitor people performance metrics assess risks and identify opportunitiesdriving both tactical and longterm strategy. You know how to collect input across teams and independently define the analytical approach to solve businesscritical problems. When faced with obstacles you take initiative to unblock progress keeping stakeholders informed throughout.

You seamlessly flex among various technical tools and platforms choosing the right level of effort for the business value. You bring deep contextual knowledge and apply analytics best practices in all you do focusing on high data quality scalability and continuous improvement. You are a strong verbal and written communicator tailoring your messaging to diverse audiencesfrom technical peers to executive leadersusing effective storytelling to present data and influence outcomes. You own the communication of key metrics and their associated insights often setting the standard for analytics communication across the organization.

This role requires someone with a passion for innovation strong analytical and communication skills and the ability to navigate complexity. Youll thrive in this position if youre curious decisive and excited to drive measurable impact in a highstakes environment.

About the Business:
The role is part of the Amazon People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization we build a workplace for Amazonians to invent and deliver on behalf of customers. PXT for Amazon Entertainment supports a portfolio of entertainment businesses that span film TV live sports music podcasts games audiobooks livestreaming and other media content. Our Entertainment employees deliver worldclass products and services for playing listening watching and streaming in an everimmersive entertainment environment. The Entertainment PXT team focuses on the inputs that attract grow and retain creative technical and business talent at scale. We customize for unique Entertainment business and industry needs where necessary and scale where possible and applicable.

About the Team:
This Sr. Business Analyst will be part of the Entertainment PXT Talent Experience Team. Our purpose is to create and deliver talent programs that help us be Earths Best Employer by focusing on the employee experience from joining Amazon Entertainment to building connection with each other and our customers through growing personally and professionally to being empowered to balance fun wellness and learning to sustain a long fulfilling career with Amazon.

A Little More About Location:
At Amazon we believe it is easier to learn model practice and strengthen our culture when were in the office surrounded by our colleagues. This role will be based in our Seattle Culver City or Arlington office. Most of the partners of this role are located in Seattle WA Culver City CA and Arlington VA.


Key job responsibilities
Design build and scale metrics dashboards analyses and reporting solutions that empower the Entertainment PXT team and crossfunctional partners to make datadriven decisions.
Own endtoend development of KPIs that measure the effectiveness and impact of talent programs ensuring alignment with business goals and priorities.
Perform deepdive analyses to uncover insights and identify root causes across ambiguous and evolving problem spaces.
Collaborate closely with stakeholders across HR business and technical teams to gather requirements define analytical approaches and deliver scalable selfservice solutions.
Proactively monitor key performance metrics identify trends and surface opportunities or risks to senior leadership through compelling storytelling and clear communication.
Partner with data engineering and platform teams to onboard new data sources improve data quality and coverage and enhance the usability of data for analytical use.
Build automated reporting tools and workflows to reduce manual effort streamline data delivery and improve overall efficiency.
Develop optimized data models and tables using SQL to support efficient repeatable and reliable reporting and analysis.
Actively participate in team planning stakeholder management and roadmap discussions ensuring analytics solutions are aligned to business priorities and timelines.



Bachelors degree
5 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience
3 years of writing SQL queries and creating business intelligence reports using Tableau Power BI experience
Proficient using at least one data visualization product (Tableau Qlik Amazon QuickSight Power BI etc..
Experience with data modeling data warehousing and ETL pipelines.
Experience developing datadriven business insights from multiple disparate data sources to defining requirements and produce unified solutions.
Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders via written and verbal communication.
Ability to work crossfunctionally building and maintaining trust with internal stakeholders.
Ability to bridge the gap between business and technical domains by effectively collaborating with diverse stakeholders translating complex business questions into clear analytical requirements and conveying technical concepts to nontechnical audiences with ease.
Ability to deliver independently with limited guidance.

Masters degree in finance accounting business economics engineering analytics mathematics statistics or a related technical or quantitative field
6 years experience in a business analyst data analyst or statistical analyst role.
Experience using AWS analytical services (e.g. Redshift Data Pipeline EMR Machine Learning Kinesis).
Previous experience working in or with Human Resources and people data.
Advance SQL proficiency experience writing complex SQL statements and ability to manipulate a massive amount of data creating dashboards/on demand reports.
Ability to conduct advanced statistical techniques such as structural equation modeling survival analysis social network analysis and/or cluster analysis.
Ability to deal with ambiguity and competing objectives in a fastpaced environment.
Be selfdriven and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data.

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.