Executive Talent Lead, Entertainment, Talent Team

Executive Talent Lead, Amazon Entertainment, Talent Experience Team

Amazon Entertainment is seeking an experienced HR professional to architect our executive talent strategy for the Entertainment business – where creative, technology, and business intersect across music, games, podcasts and other entertainment mediums.

This role offers the opportunity to influence how one of the world’s most innovative companies develops its talent for the future. You’ll work directly with senior Entertainment executives as we go all‑in with AI and shape the workforce transformation that’s to come.

This is not a talent acquisition or recruiting role. Candidates should have experience as an HR Business Partner to senior executives, strong business acumen, executive coaching expertise, organization design, excellent written and verbal communication, and robust project management capabilities. Presenting regularly with executive and C‑suite leaders and facilitating debate with this level of leadership is essential.

The right person thrives in ambiguity and can operate in a space with little direction to solve complex talent and organizational problems. While we align with existing Amazon timelines on core talent activities—evaluation and assessment, promotions, annual talent reviews—this leader will help evolve our talent processes to fit Entertainment talent needs using creativity to design, build, and manage process execution for our Entertainment executives.

The role is part of the Amazon People eXperience and Technology (PXT) organization, which builds a workplace for Amazonians to invent and deliver on behalf of customers. PXT for Amazon Entertainment supports a portfolio of entertainment businesses spanning film, TV, live sports, music, podcasts, games, audio books, live streaming, and other media content. The Entertainment PXT team focuses on the inputs that attract, grow, and retain creative, technical, and business talent at scale, customizing for unique entertainment business and industry needs where necessary and scaling where possible.

• Build and continuously evolve Entertainment’s talent reviews and cyclical processes in close partnership with HR Business Partners, business leaders, analytics teams, and central Amazon talent leads; act as a talent advisor to both business and HR leaders, ensuring constant improvement and scaling of services.
• Design the overall talent review strategy focused on business‑critical talent issues, including succession planning, talent development, long‑term talent planning, and organizational reviews (integrating diversity and inclusion).
• Embrace ambiguity and build structure where processes don’t yet exist; understand all connections and integration points through the entire talent management lifecycle, leading the organization through these activities.
• Communicate with multiple stakeholders using concise, clear written and verbal methods in a document‑heavy culture.
• Show curiosity about the business; learn clients’ priorities and recommend the best talent activities to help them meet business needs.
• Build relationships and earn trust as a talent expert, partnering with central team talent leaders, HR business partners, and business leaders and executives.
• Innovate with simple yet creative solutions to address talent challenges.
• Operate with high judgment, prioritizing work and managing a plan for everything else.
• Use research and data to inform recommendations; conduct experiments, collect data, pilot new ideas, measure and iterate to improve.
• Resourcefulness—know where to find answers or how to find them.

The leader will quickly earn trust with HR peers, senior leaders, and business line leaders, building deep understanding of specific entertainment areas. They will build cross‑Amazon partnerships with Talent Management peers and within central Amazon PXT and Talent teams. Medium‑term projects include leading the organization through talent processes (Q1 is the busiest talent season), evolving approaches to talent management for Entertainment talent, developing internal communications mechanisms, and rethinking and…