Principal Talent Management, Talent

Description 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.

Description 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 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 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. You ll own end-to-end product management and design for talent programs, writing docs, orchestrating cross-functional teams, and presenting to PXT leadership monthly.

You won t inherit a playbook. You ll write one.

• 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.

You ll 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 don t report to you.

You ll develop KPI frameworks that give leadership real visibility…