Principal Workforce Strategist, Senior Talent Transformation

Are you passionate about transforming how Amazon's senior leaders make strategic talent decisions? Amazon's Senior Talent and Transformation team is seeking an exceptional Workforce Strategist to revolutionize workforce planning across our global organization.

You'll advise senior leaders to transform how we align talent investments with business needs. This isn't about capability planning; you're building new capabilities for senior leaders to challenge how work is done and influencing leaders to align on the new way of working leveraging AI. You'll work in a high-visibility, high-ambiguity environment with direct interaction with senior leaders, and close partnership with Finance and Business Ops.

**Note the compensation listed below is base salary only. Total compensation will be discussed further with your recruiter.


Key job responsibilities
• Advise senior leaders in business and HR to develop the workforce strategy that supports the business objectives
• Partner with HRBPs and Finance partners to translate the workforce strategy into one-to-three-year workforce plans, aligned with Amazon’s planning cycles
• Collaborate with workforce planning tooling team to continue advancing the tooling to handle workforce scenarios with embedded AI-driven recommendations
• Earns trust with Amazon senior leaders with executive influencing skills to develop collaborative strategies that create measurable impacts for the business
• Apply workforce planning mental model and methodology, predictive analytics, technical know-how to develop forward-looking workforce plans with expected P&L impacts
• Drive workforce planning milestones from design to plan to operationalization, meeting organizational goals and timelines
• Deliver exceptional written narratives aligned with the Amazon writing culture expectation, to drive alignment and decisions
• Apply AI capabilities for faster and better workflows including analysis, doc writing, coordination
• Travel occasionally for senior leader customer meetings


About the team
The Senior Talent and Transformation team enables senior leaders – and through them, the company – to be as successful as possible in inventing and delivering on behalf of the customers.

You will work closely with senior leaders, and partner with cross-functional teams including Finance, Ops, Products, Engineers, Science, Transformation, Executive Recruiting, Executive Compensation, Executive Development.
If you enjoy leading strategic programs, influencing senior leaders, creating impacts, working in a fast-paced environment and being challenged by new problems, we’d like to speak with you!

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 194,700.00 - 263,400.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 177,000.00 - 239,400.00 USD annually