Job Description

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in DEI within Asia (including India), with a demonstrated ability to translate customer needs into content in a highly scalable manner within a distributed environment.
• Experience collaborating across business, content, and technology teams to understand how they operate and how that can inform program development.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully influence stakeholders without formal authority, leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units.
• History of teamwork and willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job done

Job summary
Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is one of the leading digital video services on the Internet today, and we’re just getting started changing the way millions of people around the world enjoy content. Now available in more than 240 countries and territories, Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any on-demand video service, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals Series such as the multi-award-winning The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Boys; UK-produced hit Amazon Original series like Good Omens, The Grand Tour, All or Nothing: Manchester City and forthcoming drama series The Power; exclusive TV shows like Star Trek: Picard, American Gods and Vikings; and movies like Late Night and Get Duked, plus live sport including ATP and WTA Tour and US Open Tennis and Premier League football. Amazon Studios is the movies and television development and production arm of Amazon. It is our role to produce original content and license studio programs worldwide in exclusive service of Amazon’s Prime Video customers. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights. The Customer and Content Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility team is looking for a results-oriented Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in India to develop strategies, assess content, and launch products and programs for across India. This role will be a part of the Amazon Studios and Prime Video DEIA team and work closely with senior leaders across the India.

A successful candidate will be a results-oriented and resourceful leader who is capable of ramping quickly and establishing themselves as a credible partner with the ability to influence business leaders and teams, as well as external customers. Ideal candidates will have experience building effective multi-year DEI strategies, strong program and project management focused on outcomes, excellent oral and written communications, and sharp analytical skills. DEI are central to our ability to reach new customers, and we are seeking a candidate who is willing to think big and look around corners for how to do this in new ways. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is comfortable diving deep into the complexity of local and regional DEI nuances, coupled with a demonstrated ability to think broadly about customer and business strategy.

Key job responsibilities
Key activities, include:

• Gathering and understanding various country laws regarding collecting and reporting self-identification demographic data.
• Developing the customer-facing DEI strategy, goals, and priorities in India.
• Developing mechanisms to assess for DEI across the Greenlight and creative processes.
• Launching policies and programs to support furthering DEI in productions and marketing.
• Working across the creative, tech and marketing teams to support their inclusive decision-making, bringing in outside experts as needed.
• Influence and partner with cross-functional working teams, including leadership and business team members such as creative, marketing, technology, legal, public policy, and public relations.
• Establish goals, plans and metrics, track progress, and manage through obstacles and opportunities to achieve program objectives
• Author business documents and reports to communicate state of the business or recommend new business initiatives
• Identify potential industry opportunities and relationships to further enhance Amazon Studios’ industry impact.
• Create reporting and dashboards for key metrics to illustrate progress against goals, to contribute to Quarterly Business Reviews.
• Proactively identify risks/issues, provide solutions and overcome hurdles to drive results
• Represent the Executive Head of DEI in key meetings with internal and external stakeholders

• Experience creating or running programs to fulfill a DEI strategy.
• Working relationships with entertainment guilds and unions.
• Interest in researching DEI best practices, including ongoing education.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders to achieve results over the long term.
• Experience ideally in entertainment, marketing or tech.
• Knowledge of data tracking and data systems, and an ability to analyze data.
• Understanding of regional nuances, including languages, cultural norms, and laws