Principal Workforce Strategist, Senior Talent Transformation

Amazon • Arlington, VA

2d • $177,000 - $263,400 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon's Senior Talent and Transformation team is seeking an exceptional Principal Workforce Strategist to revolutionize workforce planning across its global organization. This role involves advising senior leaders to transform how talent investments align with business needs, focusing on building new capabilities for leaders to challenge existing work methods and influence alignment on new ways of working, leveraging AI. The position operates in a high-visibility, high-ambiguity environment with direct interaction with senior leaders and close partnership with Finance and Business Operations. The compensation listed is base salary only, with total compensation to be discussed further with the recruiter.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed