Principal Talent Management, Amazon Talent & Compensation

The Principal Product Manager in 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 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 doesnt 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.

Were looking for a Principal who thinks like a product leader and operates like a program owner. Someone who can take a complex cross-functional challenge spanning product UX engineering and analytics and turn it into a launched experience with clear strategy measurable outcomes and executive-level visibility. Youll own end-to-end product management and design for talent programs writing docs orchestrating cross-functional teams and presenting to PXT leadership monthly. You wont inherit a playbook. Youll 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.

Product Ownership & Delivery: Own the product vision roadmap and delivery for talent management programs. Write strategy docs engage UX/Design/Analytics/Engineering partners and drive cross-functional teams to ship at scale without direct authority over those teams.

Executive Communication: Present product launches and program updates to PXT LT and executives monthly. Translate complex technical and programmatic work into crisp narratives for senior leadership.

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.

AI Transformation: Drive experimentation and adoption of AI-powered talent experiences partnering closely with engineering and technical teams to bring innovation from concept to production.

Mechanisms & Scalability: Create scalable mechanisms tools and frameworks that raise the bar on talent management practices and can be adopted broadly across the company.

A day in the life
Youll own the full lifecycle of products and programs that have considerable impact across multiple Amazon organizations. That means defining the mission and vision writing strategy documents aligning with senior leaders building go-to-market and change management plans and driving execution across UX Design Analytics and Program Management teams that dont report to you.

Youll develop KPI frameworks that give leadership real visibility into performance and youll use data to tell the story of whats working and where to push harder.

Youll be the connective tissue between product design technical and business teams identifying gaps before they become failures sourcing and coordinating resources across organizations and proactively mitigating risks that others havent spotted yet. When a problem is ambiguous youll define it. When a path forward isnt clear youll build one.

About the team
The Compensation & Talent team is a newly formed organization within PXT that brings together talent evaluation performance management and compensation under one leader. Our mission is to accelerate and advance how Amazon identifies and rewards its people uniting the full cycle of talent assessment and compensation into a streamlined end-to-end experience. We own compensation product tech and program management as well as talent management design program and policy work.

Youll operate at the intersection of people strategy and technology working on initiatives that directly influence how Amazon identifies develops and retains talent at unprecedented scale. The stakeholders are senior the problems are genuinely hard and the work ships to an audience of hundreds of thousands.

- 8 years of product or program management product marketing business development or technology experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience as a product manager or owner
- 10 years of progressive experience in talent management organizational development HR business partnership or a related field
- Demonstrates experience designing and implementing enterprise-wide talent management programs (e.g. talent evaluation performance management growth & development)
- Experience advising and influencing senior leaders (Director level and above) on talent strategy and organizational health
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to leverage data and voice of the customer to drive talent decisions and measure program effectiveness

- Experience working in a matrixed organization
- Experience in talent management organizational network analysis and organizational design and development
- Experience leading relevant talent programs including cross-functional global projects
- Masters degree or advanced certification in a relevant discipline (e.g. MBA M.S. in I/O Psychology SHRM-SCP or equivalent)
- Experience with performance management systems competency frameworks and assessment methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to manage through influence rather than authority building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups

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

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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 VA Arlington - 161900.00 - 219000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 161900.00 - 219000.00 USD annually