Sr. HR Business Partner, AWS Databases

Amazon • Seattle, WA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon is seeking a strategic and solution-focused Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) to power the trajectory of our business by ensuring we have the right talent mix, senior leadership, and capabilities to innovate and deliver exceptional customer experiences. As an HRBP, you will serve as a leader of people and organizational strategy, accelerating business outcomes through diagnosis, development, and execution of integrated solutions. You will build trusted relationships with senior leaders, enabling you to effectively coach, act as a change agent, and influence critical decisions around talent and organizational design to drive business results.

Requirements

• Experience with analytical tools and ability to dive deep into metrics and reporting
• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of strategic HR experience
• Experience engaging and influencing senior executives
• Experience leading HR initiatives such as organizational design, talent management, or change management

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field
• Experience using data and metrics to drive actionable insights at scale
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and make high-judgment decisions
• Experience in developing inclusive talent practices and addressing systemic barriers to inclusion

Responsibilities

• Leverage knowledge of the business, global landscape, and trends to tailor people-focused solutions that drive business outcomes
• Interpret key people metrics and trends, utilizing mechanisms to inspect and monitor risks
• Design, recommend, and implement effective organizational structures that align with business strategy, strengthen culture, and enable inclusive decision-making
• Partner with senior leaders to build customer-centric organizations that foster agility and empower frontline decision-making
• Assess both long-term and immediate senior leader talent needs to achieve business goals
• Develop strategies to build required senior leader skills and establish inclusive talent pipelines
• Coach and advise individual leaders and leadership teams on improving management abilities, addressing business challenges, and strengthening culture
• Challenge senior leaders when necessary to break mental models on ways of working, biases, structure, and talent decisions
• Use listening mechanisms to identify trends, risks, and hotspots to inform change plans and maximize customer experience
• Drive effective change environments by leveraging multiple perspectives and inclusive communication strategies
• Influence and coach senior leaders as they build their teams' ability to navigate organizational changes
• Monitor and evaluate implemented changes to assess effectiveness and durability
• Build long-term inclusive workforce plans aligned with business objectives
• Coach and support senior leaders in executing workforce plans and making resource allocation decisions
• Anticipate industry trends and talent needs, determining gaps in current and future capabilities
• Create talent goals and cadence with the Senior Leadership team, building inclusive talent mechanisms into the organization's rhythm of business
• Effectively influence senior leaders and peers without direct authority
• Build credibility through expertise and trusted relationships
• Drive change initiatives across organizational boundaries
• Persuade stakeholders using data-backed recommendations and compelling narratives
• Thrive in environments with incomplete information and "live in the grey"
• Work independently to make progress despite uncertainty
• Navigate complex situations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• Maintain effectiveness during periods of significant organizational change
• Explores new GenAI tools, considers ethics, and measures effectiveness
• Applies security measures while experimenting with GenAI to improve work processes
• Combines AI with human expertise while maintaining transparency and accountability
• Evaluates when GenAI adds value and validates outputs through fact-checking before implementation.
• Make high-velocity decisions independently with limited guidance
• Balance competing priorities and make appropriate trade-offs
• Exercise sound judgment in sensitive situations involving people and organizational issues
• Know when to escalate issues versus when to resolve independently
• Anticipate challenges before they arise and develop proactive solutions
• Create multiple future scenarios to prepare for various business outcomes
• Develop contingency plans for high-impact organizational changes
• Apply creative thinking to solve complex organizational problems
• Partner with business leaders to develop HR solutions aligned with business objectives, lead organizational design initiatives, drive talent strategies, and create mechanisms to assess organizational health.
• Be comfortable dealing with ambiguity while building structured mechanisms to drive successful and equitable outcomes.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior