Senior Organizational Design Specialist

Company: BLUE ORIGIN
Location: Kent
Posted on: January 17, 2023

Job Description:

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.
As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, 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. People come to work at Blue Origin because of our exciting, history-making vision of enabling millions of people to live and work in space. We are a fast-paced environment 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.
As Senior Organizational Design Specialist, you'll influence large-scale transformation efforts and work independently on targeted initiatives across Blue Origin. Your organizational design work will focus on development of people strategies in partnership with HR Business Partners and businesses as well as organizational design projects to assess and align roles and people to the organization's needs. You'll partner on projects such as organization assessments, strategy definition, organization design, and organizational culture and core values. In addition, you will build scalable mechanisms, tools, and resources for our approach to talent strategies and to enable leaders to drive their own organization design using best practices and solutions.
The ability to take a detailed approach while influencing senior leaders' attitudes and behaviors about talent strategies, organization structures, and approaches to change to enable effective and timely choices will determine success in this role. The ideal candidate will be able to complete organization assessments and diagnose organization and talent opportunities using data and insights from variety of sources to determine root causes and propose fit-for-purpose solutions to address needs within larger enterprise context.
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!
Responsibilities

• Conduct organization assessments with HR Business Partners to help leaders identify areas for improvement as related to talent capabilities, structure, and effectiveness.
• Build a scalable approach for talent strategy development and deployment; provide mechanisms to drive alignment of talent priorities to business priorities.
• Advise on organization design needs across the company, acting as subject matter authority to lead teams through (re)design efforts.
• Establish and maintain organization design methodology and playbook to enable leaders and HR Business Partners to drive future design efforts independently and in alignment with Blue Origin's approach.
• Partner with HR teams to identify and operationalize inspection points and measures that can be used to consistently evaluate organization and team health and build into a toolkit for leaders to use in ongoing fashion.
• Work closely with business leaders on strategies that improve employee engagement and facilitate a culture that increases organizational efficiency.
• Practice effective contracting with clear goal and role clarity for business leader(s) and HR partners across the lifecycle of the project and develop clear methods for effective measurement and sustainment of results.
  Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant area such as HR Management, Psychology, or Organization Development
  • 10+ years of experience in organization design or consulting
  • In-depth knowledge of organization diagnosis, strategy formulation and organization design within a complex organization.
  • Strong proficiency in taking a collaborative approach with stakeholders to identify needs and develop solutions.
  • Adaptive advising style, ability to flex approach to meet the needs of different organizations.
  • Strong strategic communication skills and ability to effectively influence and collaborate with people at all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to build for scale, transferring expert knowledge into solutions that allow others to execute on their own with the right tools and frameworks.
  • 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
    • Ability to figure things out without a road map, transform organizations, as well as break the mold in terms of ways to re-frame and solve problems.
    • Broad understanding and working knowledge of talent processes and solutions, including talent management, workforce planning, talent development, and talent acquisition.
    • Ability to support and coach leaders and team members when appropriate.
    • Experience driving development and change with executives, with strong writing and presentation skills.
      Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
      Export Control RegulationsApplicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
      Equal Employment OpportunityBlue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on "EEO Is the Law," please see here and here.Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.Affirmative Action and Disability AccommodationApplicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin's Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com.BenefitsEmployee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match.Paid Time Off: Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 14 holidays

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