Responsibilities

• Monitor, assess, escalate, and resolve a variety of situations occurring simultaneously with excellent judgement
• Dive deeply with internal teams to understand how their businesses work
• Formulate a clear point of view on complicated issues and create concise, well-written statements
• Build and maintain relationships with key media outlets/reporters
• Manage incoming media inquiries, correct inaccuracies, and lay groundwork for future story development
• Pick up the phone to speak with reporters to get more information, educate them on key topics and push back on inaccurate information
• Effectively represent Amazon as a spokesperson
• Help manage external PR firms as necessary

Requirements

• 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
• Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or a related field

Preferred

• Experience working independently with minimal supervision
• Experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, or experience communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience with fast moving or negative media cycles
• Strong attention to detail, bias for action, and the ability to understand the nuance of complex business topics
• Strong judgment and ability to make decisions in real-time

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parantal leave
• Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.