Senior DEI Business Partner

Job ID: 2835982 | Amazon.com Services LLC

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth and the world’s best employer. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Do you want to play an instrumental role in leading diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies for Amazon’s high growth environment? Here’s your opportunity! We are seeking an influential and experienced DEI business partner to execute against the DEI strategy for our General and Administrative organizations (including Finance and Global Business Services (FGBS), Global Communications and Community Impact (GCCI), Legal and Public Policy, and People Experience and Technology (PXT)) by partnering with leaders to help us grow a diverse global workforce while fostering equity and inclusion. You’ll use your skills to work both across the business as well as deep dive with specific teams to help them identify opportunities and apply best practices that achieve change. You’ll partner with senior leadership teams to design, coordinate, track and measure our DEI solutions and overall plan.

Key job responsibilities

As part of the G&A Inclusive Experiences and Technology (IXT) team, you will work closely with G&A business leaders and colleagues across PXT (including HR business partners, talent leads, and recruiting) to help organizational leaders set, track, and achieve DEI goals. As a DEI business partner, you will assess the current state and identify best practices to move the business forward. You will also partner with Amazon’s global IXT team to drive corporate-wide programs at scale into our organization. You will measure and communicate results against committed DEI actions, so that we can ensure meaningful progress toward DEI and business goals. Ability to assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, and balance business needs as they implement DEI programs is critical. Successful candidates will have experience analyzing and leveraging DEI data to set priorities and understand challenges, advising and coaching leaders, earning trust with customers, supporting equitable talent processes, and exhibiting the ability to invent and simplify to translate best practices and research into action. You should not only be passionate about delivering DEI solutions but obsessed with driving meaningful results that ultimately impact our customers.

A day in the life

In this role, you will:

1. Earn trust across a range of levels and disciplines to establish yourself and the team as a trusted DEI Subject Matter Expert
2. Assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs as DEI programs are implemented
3. Translate research and best practices in DEI into readily consumable resources and programs aligned to business need
4. Bring innovative solutions to broaden our DEI portfolio and drive measurable business results
5. Create, maintain, and disseminate resources in a variety of formats across all levels of the organization
6. Dive deep with quantitative and qualitative data analyses to identify the root causes of problems through an expanded, holistic view and long-term perspective and think big to develop scalable solutions
7. Connect and inspire people to drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple groups with competing priorities
8. Regularly measure, inspect, analyze and provide insights regarding areas of strength and opportunity, and provide consultative support to identify interventions and initiatives for improvement
9. Have outstanding verbal and written communication skills to motivate and influence senior leaders, stakeholders and peer groups
10. Provide leadership and coaching, when appropriate, to managers, Directors and VPs via one-to-one and group interactions

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree
5+ years’ experience designing and delivering DEI strategies and initiatives that increase workforce diversity, equity and inclusion
5+ years’ project or program management experience
Experience delivering projects and programs for large, global, cross-functional audiences
Experience developing learning resources and services

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience and credibility as a leader in an environment where the ability to influence, work across a complex matrix, and build relationships is critical.
Track record driving measurable business outcomes through DEI solutions
Experience effectively partnering with HR and business teams to build effective DEI, HR or talent programs and strategies
Ability to influence without authority, think proactively, and function independently.
High level of comfort using data-driven decision making.
Strong analytical skills and ability to translate metrics, research, and trends into strategy and improvement opportunities.
Ability to develop quick turn-around, practical recommendations based on data and research to inform strategic decisions in a fast-moving environment.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information in an approachable manner.
Strong program and project management skills, and ability to operationalize and scale programs
High EQ / interpersonal skills and the ability to work well across functions.
Good organization skills with the ability to manage varied workloads and multiple tasks.
Consulting, advising, or executive coaching skills.
Multi-national or global work experience a plus. Relevant advanced degree is a plus.

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.