Senior Manager, Human Resources

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or equivalent
- At least 15 years of HR experiences in high growth, fast-paced, technology driven environment

Job summary

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Human Resources with Amazon

Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a senior advisor and confidant to senior leaders in the region on human capital related matters, helping to ensure that the business has the talent, culture, and commitment necessary to grow and evolve in Asia, and supports these outcomes with efficient processes/systems, relevant compensation/benefits, compliant practices, and smart people analytics;
- Focus on and deliver against the following key priorities: cultivate culture, grow talent, build organization capability, improve organization health, and increase HR effectiveness;
- Foster positive consistent engagement beginning with a great first day and consistent support and development through the employee lifecycle. Oversee and enhance the regional talent management processes and employee development processes. Identify, develop and improve retention of high performers/high potentials;
- Build mechanisms that reinforce and strengthen Amazon’s culture. Ensure people systems work together to support a high achieving, empowered, healthy and transparent culture. Avoid bureaucracy while building sustainable systems capable of handling additional growth and complexity;
- Represent Amazon in conversations with government agencies, customers and other external stakeholders.

About the team

In HR at Amazon, we are guided by the following tenets:

- We seek to be the most scientific HR organization in the world. We form hypotheses about the best talent acquisition, talent retention, and talent development techniques and then set out to prove or disprove them with careful data collection and analysis.
- As we develop new programs and services, we work backwards from current and future employees, understanding that our work has a direct impact on customers. We prioritize work that results in measurable impact on our customers.
- We acknowledge that no process or policy can be so well designed as to properly cover every situation. When common sense is at odds with one of our policies or practices, we make high judgement exceptions.
- We manage HR as a business, and we strive to scale faster through technology and simplified processes rather than through HR headcount growth. We rigorously audit ourselves to disrupt and reinvent HR industry standards.
- We favor straightforward communications. We use plain language and specific examples over generalizations and corporate speak.

Be an innovative thinker who understands how to build an effective strategic HR team in high growth, fast-paced, technology driven environment. Be an approachable hands-on leader with ability to engage on strategic business matters at both the conceptual and tactical levels, high judgment, excellent organization and systems thinking, and a passion for building and driving results through collaborative engagement at all levels of the organization. In addition to broad HR expertise and experiences, also have a history of:

- Operating outside of standard playbooks, finding new solutions which lead to tangible results;
- Testing new hypotheses and taking a creative data-driven approach;
- Executing and delivering impactful people projects with small driven teams; always seeing room for improvement despite exceptional demonstrated success;
- Being a developer of talent, with a passion for hiring and talent assessment to ensure the right people are in the right roles plus developing and empowering colleagues at all levels across Amazon;
- Striking the right balance between speed/flexibility and process/compliance, deploying a highly analytical approach to ensure that the organization rigorously measures and analyzes the right things to drive success;
- Continuously seeing around corners to anticipate future talent needs and developing strategies to meet the needs of rapidly scaling teams while also scaling themselves and the HR team to stay a step ahead;
- Maintaining relentlessly high standards with a high degree of integrity, personally and professionally;
- Always learning, curious and positive.