Talent Management Specialist jobs in Washington

As a Senior Specialist in Talent Management you will work with partners in HR and senior leaders across the organization to diagnose, design, and implement structure, process, and people changes that best align the capabilities of people at Blue Origin to the mission. We work here because of our vision of enabling billions of people to live and work in space. Blue Origin is a fast-paced company in need of leaders who can drive operational excellence, build organizational agility, and encourage ongoing dedication and engagement from employees to deliver complicated yet reliable products.

You will be responsible for talent processes used by employees and leaders to hold a high bar for performance and drive a feedback-rich culture, act as a measure of health that promotes proactive solutions, and provide leaders with the tools and information to act. You will build, implement, and measure the quality of talent management processes with a specific focus on individual and organizational feedback mechanisms. The feedback programs include employee-to-employee feedback processes that are core to performance, recognition, and career development solutions as well as using organization survey tools to enable teams to listen and act on feedback quickly. You will be responsible for understanding what engages employees, influencing leadership behavior change, and helping Blue build a culture aligned with our vision and leadership principles.

The ideal candidate will have full life-cycle program ownership experience in building, implementing, and revamping talent programs using data and insights from both industry practices and employees and managers to figure out the right solutions for Blue Origin. You will have multiple successes at developing and implementing feedback mechanisms, including employee surveys, focus groups, and employee-to-employee feedback programs. The candidate will be a superb communicator with the ability to establish relationships with employees at all levels of the organization.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a relevant area such as Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, Organization Development, or HR Management, and 6 years of proven results with ownership of talent management programs.

• Successful enterprise-wide program management experience to include either starting from scratch and/or building on others’ work to improve existing processes.

• Deep expertise in talent programs, especially employee engagement, surveys, performance management, succession planning, and/or promotions.

• Experience in implementing talent processes end-to-end; measuring impact, assessing critical outcome measures, and incorporating feedback to improve processes continuously Experience handling a broad variety of critical collaborators across the company.

• Strong analytical capabilities, a process improvement mentality, and the ability to influence others with data-driven recommendations.

• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion.

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Desired:

• Ph.D. degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, HR Management, or Org Development

• Ability to figure things out without a road map, transform organizations, and break the mold in ways to re-frame and tackle problems.

• Experience driving development and change of talent programs with executives, with strong writing and presentation skills.

• Excellent written and verbal skills as well as prioritization and planning skills – with solid attention to detail.

• Program management experience including scoping, leading, and delivering complex projects. A track record of succession across all phases including design, implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement.