At Amazon FinAuto Receivables Tech, we needed to double capacity while driving AI/ML-led finance automation at scale – without diluting performance, culture, or manager satisfaction. *** The Charter-First Principle: Most teams hire reactively. We designed charters first – defining outcomes, skills, and leadership bar upfront. This reduced hiring mistakes by 40% and created self-sustaining teams. How we executed: *** Mapped precise skills (ML annotation pipelines, distributed