At AWS we're working to be the most customer-centric Cloud Services company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented people. We are looking for a dynamic, bright, and organized self-starter with a passion for talent management to join our team as a Principal Talent Partner supporting the AWS Marketing organization. This role is part of a fun and passionate global HR and business group and requires strong client management and team collaboration across organizations. We are looking for a professional who has the ability to earn trust and influence senior leaders, think strategically about talent and the business in a matrixed organization, and diagnose issues, spot patterns, and develop solutions that de-risk and accelerates the business. This principal must possess an ability to assess and coach talent at an executive level. The Principal Talent Partner is a skilled communicator and facilitator, with experience driving strategic people conversations with senior leaders. Finally, this leader must be strategic and a systems thinker, with the skills necessary to clearly define problem statements and iterate, launch and scale mechanisms that address them. They will demonstrate analytical capabilities and be able to influence business priorities with data-driven recommendations.

Key job responsibilities
The Principal Talent Partner is the talent management partner to the leader of the AWS Marketing organization. They lead executive talent management across our growing and global organization, working closely with HR to support the business leader in delivering on shared goals. The Principal Talent Partner is responsible for ensuring our executive talent management processes (e.g. Directors and VPs) are launched, scaled, and improved upon for the AWS Marketing organization. This includes leading the talent cadence for comprehensive succession planning, critical role mapping, executive promotions and talent movement across a global organization. In doing so, the Principal Talent Partner ensures our services leaders are consistently inspecting and assessing their organizational design, the strength of their leadership teams and succession plans, the depth of our leadership pipeline, their leadership capacity needs, and whether we have an optimal match between critical talent and critical roles. When opportunity to improve is identified, the Principal, Talent Partner consults with relevant business leaders and then builds, iterates, and scales solutions to address.

A day in the life
The Principal Talent Partner will plan, coordinate, and facilitate the executive level talent cadence for the AWS Marketing organization, including succession planning, promotions, talent reviews and organizational analysis. They work backwards from the needs of the business vis a vis our talent, driving buy in from HR and business leaders. The Principal Talent Partner not only runs the talent cadence, they are a consultant and thought partner with the HR Director and their VP(s) regarding critical talent, succession readiness, and development planning.

About the team
This role sits on the AWS Marketing Executive Talent Management Leadership Team and is matrixed to the Marketing HR team. The primary client for this role is the AWS Marketing organizations.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA and Arlington, VA.

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