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February 7, 2025
Mid • On-site
$139,200 - $230,200/yr
Sunnyvale, CA , +3
Say hello to Ring, Blink, Amazon Key and Amazon Sidewalk (RBKS). We’re keeping people close to what's important with products that make homes more secure and life more convenient. Our teams are on a mission to create affordable, innovative, and easy-to-use smart home security devices.
The RBKS HR team is looking for a talented and strategic Principal HRBP to help our business leaders develop and execute HR strategies that enable business priorities and foster the employee experience.
This role is both a strategic and hands on role including improving organizational effectiveness & design, leading change management, providing leadership coaching and driving HR functional excellence. We are seeking an experienced Principal HRBP who can effectively interact with the senior leadership team, possesses excellent communication skills, strong business acumen, and works effectively across multiple geographies.
Key job responsibilities
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
• Develop and implement people plans and solutions in order to achieve people initiatives and deliver results. This includes serving as a critical champion of programs that help to export talent to the broader RBKS organization from customer teams.
• Partner with senior leaders and their leadership teams to develop the talent strategy needed to support our tremendous growth, and build a work environment where all employees can thrive and grow.
• Working closely with specialist central HR teams, as well as matrixed site and international HR colleagues, keep the right focus on assessing the HR needs in areas such as performance management, talent acquisition, career development, diversity and compensation/rewards.
• Function as a consultant and counselor to key leaders and their respective organizations; engage in strategic planning meetings to translate business needs into HR plans.
• Partner with the business on organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and skills assessment and development.
• Review and analyze business metrics including data on retention and employee experience in order to recommend systemic improvements.
• Partner with the business to lead our Organization and Leadership Review, which focuses on succession planning, talent development and organizational health priorities.
• Provide compensation support including salary planning, approval of salary actions, and promotions.
• Partner with central HR Partner organization to work with line managers and employees to address various employee relations issues, fairly representing all interests.
• Partner with the RBKS talent acquisition team to build systemic and scalable recruiting programs to create a sustainable pipeline of talent.
A day in the life
Work with executive leadership team to develop and implement organizational initiatives and solutions at scale.
- Define people goals that are based on business drivers and tied to strategic priorities of the business.
- Earn trust as a partner to the extended PXT leadership locally and regionally/globally.
- Partner with business leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and skills assessment and development.
- Review and analyze business metrics including data on retention and employee experience in order to recommend systemic improvements.
- Partner with the business to lead both annual and mid-year review processes which focus on performance management and talent development.
About the team
The Ring, Blink, Key and Amazon Sidewalk (RBKS) PXT team is a highly cross functional team. Given our start up nature, we work very closely across our TA, COE and international teams to present one people view to the business. It's also a very mission-based organization where we get to be an intimate partner to bring that mission alive.
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in an HR Generalist role, preferably in a business partner role in the tech industry.
• 5+ years’ experience working as a business partner, and driving organizational change initiatives and developing talent management plans for global organization teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; high quality document preparation, data visualization, and facilitation skills.
• Previous employee relations and talent assessment experience.
• Master’s degree in Human Resources or MBA.
• Previous experience leading in a matrix environment (ideally internationally).
• Demonstrated achievements in coaching, influencing and problem solving.
• Prior end to end senior HR leadership experience supporting a large (5K+), geographically dispersed organization that consists of entry level and senior executive customers.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $139,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $230,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.