Sr. Leadership Development Business Partner, Selling Partner Services

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 Amazons 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 Youll 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 Youll 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 youre 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 youre designing a curriculum from scratch facilitating a room full of managers or piloting something new to see what moves the needle.

Youll 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 Youll 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.

Were 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 youll help shape how leaders grow here.

- Bachelors degree or equivalent in Instructional Systems Design Adult Learning Learning & Development HR or a related discipline
- 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 conceptualizing and delivering programs for large cross-functional global teams using data and metrics to measure impact provide insights and drive improvements
- Experience coaching or developing senior leaders/executives

- Bachelors degree or Masters degree in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field
- 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
- 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)

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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt 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 WA Seattle - 127400.00 - 172400.00 USD annually