Principal AWS Brand Advertising Leader, AWS Brand and Creative

Seattle, WA (On-site)

$149K/yr – $202K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and steer global AWS brand advertising with cross-market ownership of strategy, budget, and agency partnerships to drive top-of-funnel awareness among decision-makers and developers.

  • Brand Strategy: Define the vision, roadmap, and owned vs. influenced interactions across all channels to maximize reach and impact.
  • Campaign Activation: Drive end-to-end funnel campaigns with measurable perception shifts and a strong creative bar with external partners.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for AWS global brand advertising campaigns across all markets and channels (broadcast, digital, social, OOH, streaming, sponsorships)
  • Own end-to-end activation of top-of-funnel awareness campaigns that drive measurable perception shifts among business decision-makers, developers, builders, and technical leaders
  • Champion creative excellence — push strategy and creative partners to deliver breakthrough work that earns cultural attention and builds lasting brand fame
  • Define owned vs. influenced brand interactions, establishing criteria for what the Brand team manages directly vs. enables through mechanisms
  • Lead prioritization of campaign initiatives working backwards from annual leadership goals, strategic planning cycles, and real-time market opportunities
  • Proactively identify areas of opportunity for brand growth and develop plans that ladder to organizational objectives (e.g., shifting perception of AWS as a Leader in AI)
  • Serve as the senior business relationship owner for external creative agency partners globally
  • Lead agency RFI/RFP processes including partner selection, scope definition, and onboarding for highest-impact initiatives across multiple geographies, segments, and channels
  • Manage complex agency negotiations including budget allocation, contract terms, SOW development, and performance-based incentive structures
  • Set and hold a high creative bar with agency partners — expect exceptional work, provide sharp feedback, and create the conditions for agencies to do their best thinking

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience
  • Experience with Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables)
  • Experience communicating results to senior leadership
  • Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs
  • Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams

Preferred

  • Experience working cross-functionally and driving decision making among stakeholders with competing goals
  • Experience with various types of research methodologies is key, including quant, qual, 1P & 3P data, trend analysis & forecasting, etc.
  • Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements

Benefits

  • Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
  • Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.
  • Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
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Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost.Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.

Founded in 2006
Duvall, Washington, USA
151K employees (5,507 in marketing)
65% recommend to a friend
63% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.7B
Traffic Source Mix
Search
25.4%
Direct
66.7%
Referral
5.5%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~151.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3,671 (2% of company)
Median Career Experience
20.5 years
Median Tenure
5.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
9

Funding

Last Raise
Grant, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2025
    Grant

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