Nicole Vaughn

Global owner of the Role Guideline creation program that defines role expectations for all jobs within Amazon and sets consistent career progression and promotion criteria for 1M+ employees across all parts of the business.

Owned end-to-end strategy, design, implementation, and change management for core talent programs including promotions, career development, succession planning, and retention. Implemented promotion redesign (60% higher data accuracy; 28% adoption in week one) and led initiatives that improved virtual L&D favorability to 80% and increased retention from 90% to 93%.

Globally owned the Role Guideline creation program defining role expectations for all jobs and consistent career progression/promotion criteria for 1M+ employees. Reduced guideline creation time by 66% and increased clarity/usability by 54%, and used analytics and qualitative inputs to establish equitable promotion criteria (30.5k new clicks; +341% role guideline requests).

Global recruiting subject matter expert (SME) and program manager focused on improving the customer (employee) experience by partnering with HRBPs, Senior Leaders, Immigration, Legal, Tax, and the Amazon HR Exit teams on retention and career development planning for internal employees facing organizational changes such as immigration issues, role eliminations, and re-deployments.

Served as SME for global talent movement, partnering with HRBPs and legal/immigration stakeholders to support retention and career development planning during organizational changes. Created an immigration retention strategy that retained 90 employees with standard time to place of 59 days (improving future placements by 36%) and launched a redeployment program delivering $365k in annual cost savi

Partnered with stakeholder hiring teams to build strategic sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches for an average of 35 requisitions, including up to 20 hiring managers and 2 locations at any given time.
Delivered an average of 2.8 hires/month with an offer acceptance rate of 93% of which 50% were diversity hires.
Spearheaded Amazon Business’ first South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Event

Partnered with hiring leaders to deliver high-volume, strategic hiring for Amazon Business. Spearheaded the first South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Event, managing 5,577 points of contact, and received the 2017 Learn & Be Curious award for Consumer Talent Acquisition.

Grade: Cum Laude

Earned a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology with a focus on Mesoamerican Studies (Cum Laude).

Grade: Magna Cum Laude

Earned a Master’s degree in Art History focused on Egyptian Art & Archaeology and Museum Studies (Magna Cum Laude).