Senior HR Business Partner, Amazon

Entertainment PXT, ATG

$104-193.4k

Senior level
Los Angeles

Office located in Culver City, CA

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

$104-193.4k

Senior level
Los Angeles

Office located in Culver City, CA

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • Genuine curiosity and ability to interpret business goals and recommend new approaches to talent acquisition and management
  • A true hands-on approach and a willingness to go to the "frontline" to understand our employees and our customers
  • Experience with multi-functional and ever-changing work environment
  • Coaching and mentoring at all management levels
  • Creative problem solving that works backwards from the end customer and the business client
  • Success in creating and driving effective career development, retention, and recognition programs
  • Being an enthusiastic team player with a strong drive to create meaningful client relationships
  • The ability to think big but also not be afraid to "roll up your sleeves."
  • The ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously while continually moving initiatives forward
  • Must be able to interface at executive levels of the organization
  • Excellent organization and interpersonal skills
  • 5+ years of relevant Human Resources experience
  • Experience working across a global organization and with multi-territory support
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher, in Human Resources or related field

Desirable

  • Experience in Entertainment or Creative industries
  • Experience in working in a highly matrixed organization
  • Project management and execution skills
  • Thrives in a high-pressure environment and able to manage multiple simultaneous priorities
  • Able to build trust with managers thanks to strong expertise and judgement
  • Possesses intellectual curiosity; brings insight into the team & business
  • Strong business and HR acumen, including strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking and analysis
  • Strong use of Excel and other analytical skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Coaching and consulting skills

What the job involves

  • The Amazon Music HR team is looking for a Sr. HR Business Partner (HRBP) who is ready to go deep on the business of entertainment, working in lockstep with our biggest leaders to build an organization that scales and invents with employees that live and breathe audio, film and television
  • The Sr. HRBP in this role will coach clients at all levels, design and deliver talent solutions to business problems, and advise executive leaders on business and organizational design strategies
  • To be successful in this role, you must understand business priorities and translate them into the highest impact work
  • You’ll help business leaders look around corners with data-driven recommendations that improve speed of execution, employee engagement, and talent development
  • As the leader responsible for key HR functions, you will drive how we adapt our processes and philosophies to enable Amazon to attract, grow, and retain talent in our creative, industry-specific, business development, and customer acquisition functions
  • You will drive strategic initiatives related to onboarding, talent management, organizational culture, diversity and inclusion, and other opportunities that you uncover
  • This HRBP will partner with Executives (L8+) across multiple organizations and global sites with the support of an HR Partner Team who will provide programmatic and ad hoc HR support to L4-7 managers
  • Travel for this role will include trips to Seattle and Los Angeles at a minimum
  • It is likely that there will be additional global travel with the role
  • The is both a strategic and hands on role including improving organizational effectiveness & design, leading change management, providing leadership coaching and driving HR functional excellence

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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