Amazon

Senior HR Business Partner, AI Compute

Amazon • $120K — $150K *
Seattle, WA 98115In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Yesterday
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field
  • 5+ years of HR business partner experience
  • Strong skills in influencing senior leaders
  • Proficient in analyzing HR data and translating into strategies
  • Experience in talent management and organizational design
  • Familiarity with technical organizations of 500+ employees

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Directors to align people strategies with business goals
  • Manage workforce planning and organizational design for scaling
  • Facilitate talent review sessions for consistent performance ratings
  • Coach managers through performance management processes
  • Develop retention strategies for vital AI/ML talent
  • Support organizational change and team integration efforts
  • Translate workforce analytics into insights for leadership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance plans
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company matching
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Generous paid time off and holidays
  • Employee stock purchase program
  • Continual professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
The Sr. HR Business Partner for AI Compute serves as a strategic people partner to leaders across Amazon's AI Compute organization, encompassing SageMaker and Forge Infrastructure. This role provides direct HR support to Director-level leaders managing ~800+ engineers and technical program managers building the compute infrastructure that powers Amazon's AI services.

This HRBP will own the full talent lifecycle for their client groups including workforce planning, organizational design, performance management, leadership coaching, and retention strategy in a fast-moving, high-growth domain and the technical complexity of the work demands deep business acumen. The role requires navigating ambiguity in a recently integrated organization while building trusted advisory relationships with senior technical leaders.

Key focus areas include:

- Partnering with Directors on org design, talent calibration, and succession planning

- Driving performance management rigor through talent review facilitation, coaching, and performance management

- Building retention strategies for critical technical talent in a highly competitive AI/ML market

- Supporting organizational change as new teams stand up and integrate

- Translating workforce data into actionable insights for business leaders

- Coaching managers on leadership development, team health, and delivering effective feedback

- The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of progressive HRBP experience, comfort operating in technical engineering organizations, strong consultation and influencing skills, and the ability to move quickly between strategic planning and hands-on execution.

Key job responsibilities

- Partner with Directors across to deliver people strategies that support business objectives

- Own workforce planning, headcount management, and org design recommendations as the organization scales

- Facilitate talent review calibration sessions; ensure rating consistency and follow-through on talent actions

- Coach managers on performance management

- Develop and execute retention strategies for critical technical talent in AI/ML

- Support organizational change and team integration as the org stands up and the broader AI - Compute org evolves

- Translate workforce analytics into actionable insights for leadership decisions

- Drive succession planning and bench development for key leadership roles

- Partner with recruiting on hiring strategy, diverse slate execution, and interview quality

- Advise on compensation positioning, off-cycle adjustments, and pay equity

- Conduct skip-level meetings and engagement pulse analysis to surface team health signals

A day in the life

Your focus is being the people partner that Directors in AI Compute actually want to talk to. You'll coach them through performance conversations, build retention cases when top engineers competing offers, and facilitate calibration sessions that ensure equitable outcomes. You'll run skip-levels to stay connected to how teams are feeling, partner with recruiting to keep hiring moving in a brutally competitive AI talent market, and help leaders think through org design as the organization scales. When things shift (and they will), you're the one making sure the people side doesn't get left behind.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Human Resources Management, Labor Relations, Business/Management, Psychology, or a related field

- 5+ years of human resource business partner or blend of operations and HR experience

- Experience influencing senior leaders/stakeholders

- Experience analyzing HR data and translating metrics into actionable workforce strategies

- Experience in talent management, organizational network analysis, and organizational design and development

- Experience supporting engineering or technical organizations of 500+ employees

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master's degree in HR Management, Organizational Development, Business Administration or related fields

- Experience with enterprise-scale infrastructure or development-based cloud programs/projects in a related industry

- Experience creating and executing effective talent acquisition strategies

- Experience leading organizational change initiatives across multiple locations

- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or PHR/SPHR certification

- Experience with succession planning and executive coaching

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Size
1,608 employees
Market Cap
$832.6 billion
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Net Income
$21.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+28.1%
Revenue
$386 billion
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AMZN
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