Amazon Web Services, Inc Hiring for Communications Manager, North America Sales Job at Portland, OR Full Time

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, and/or PR
• 7+ years’ executive or internal communications experience, preferably at a high-growth, technology company.
• You’ve worked in PR, employee, corporate or executive communications.

Job summary

For more than 11 years, AWS has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 100 fully featured services to millions of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure. At AWS Americas Sales, we are customer obsessed and passionate about revolutionizing and advancing our customer’s journey to the cloud.

Join a creative, diverse, and fun team who consistently delivers results. We are seeking an experienced, customer-obsessed, executive and internal communications manager to help effectively communicate the organization’s strategy and vision to our employees. In this role, you will be responsible for driving strategic communications, content, and events for members of the AWS Americas Sales Leadership Team, including the planning quarterly All Hands, building communications strategies in support of major initiatives, change communications, and providing editorial and writing support for significant business initiatives.

You work across business functions, regions and all levels of the organization to make sure our employees are a top-of-mind audience. You actively listen and employ data to craft what—and how—we communicate, shape, and amplify content to inform the organization. We host events and forums to engage and inspire employees to create the best employee experience. We discover new ways to inform and entertain them, too.

This role requires exceptional verbal and written communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work backwards from ambiguous requirements to generate clear, concise communications – requiring frequent engagement with AWS leadership. In your career you must have demonstrated successful executive presence, excellent interpersonal skills, and a proven ability to influence others. The right candidate is a communications expert, extremely data-driven, thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and has proven experience managing priorities and working effectively across a number of internal stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities

• Write thoughtful messaging and content for leadership to speak at internal engagements
• You are an experienced communications leader with a track record for bring out the best in people. You work with passion, dedication and integrity.
• You have experience in developing content, creative writing, or storytelling.
• Serve as program lead to ensure opportunities to communicate (town halls, event presentations, video, email etc.) are bar raising in both content and delivery to deliver a world class employee experience.
• Responsible for a developing a communications strategy for specific leadership initiatives. And work with the team to execute flawlessly.
• Dive deep into employee listening, metrics and feedback to spot trends, identify changes in behavior, and peaks and valleys in engagement and take appropriate action
• You know how to balance complex and competing priorities across your team. You’re a specialist when it comes to gracefully resolving conflict and providing and articulating clear and actionable outcomes.
• Curiosity drives you. You ask “why” as often as you ask “why not”. You start with the big picture and strategically define how to achieve the goal. You are a (respectful) boundary pusher and (innovative) disrupter. You work best when you know the vision and have freedom to work inside and outside the lines to creatively execute the vision.
• End-to-end event planning and execution experience, with high level of attention to detail and time management.
• Exceptional copywriting and editing skills, with the ability to articulate a clear point of view on complicated issues in clear, concise communications.
• Demonstrated experience developing executive level communications in a variety of formats (e.g., blogs, executive presentations, whitepapers, etc.)
• You stay committed while being flexible and adaptable, and use data to make good decisions

The base pay range for this position in New York City is USD$156,100 – $211,200 (hr/yr). Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Amazon’s internal or external careers site.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.