Senior Brand Strategist, AWS Brand Strategy

Seattle, WA (Unknown)

$141K/yr – $191K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the brand architecture and messaging strategy for a multi-product technology portfolio, translating strategy into concrete guidance for product marketing, campaigns, and creative teams while applying evidence-based branding and behavioral science insights to drive mental availability and coherent portfolio storytelling.

  • Brand & Messaging: Define architecture, position frameworks, and value propositions that scale across products and services.
  • Marketing Science: Partner with analytics to translate tracker and campaign data into actionable brand recommendations.
  • Governance & Tools: Build scalable brand standards, templates, and processes so cross-functional teams can apply strategy consistently.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Brand Strategy & Architecture: Develop and maintain brand architecture frameworks for a growing, complex technology portfolio
  • Brand Strategy & Architecture: Contribute to naming, prefixing, and endorsement strategies that balance discoverability with portfolio coherence
  • Brand Strategy & Architecture: Author messaging platforms, value propositions, and positioning frameworks for new and existing services
  • Brand Strategy & Architecture: Translate brand strategy into actionable guidance for product marketing, campaigns, and creative teams
  • Marketing Science & Effectiveness: Apply evidence-based marketing principles (e.g., reach vs. targeting, the 95/5 rule, mental availability) to brand recommendations
  • Marketing Science & Effectiveness: Use behavioral science and cognitive psychology insights (processing fluency, somatic markers, heuristics) to inform creative strategy and brand identity decisions
  • Marketing Science & Effectiveness: Partner with analytics teams to interpret brand tracking, media mix modeling, and campaign effectiveness data
  • Marketing Science & Effectiveness: Stay current with marketing effectiveness literature (Ehrenberg-Bass, IPA databank, etc.) and translate findings into practical recommendations
  • Brand Systems & Governance: Contribute to brand standards, guidelines, and governance processes that scale consistency without slowing teams down
  • Brand Systems & Governance: Develop tools, templates, and frameworks that make it easy for cross-functional partners to apply brand strategy correctly

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or equivalent
  • 6+ years experience in brand strategy, brand management, or strategic marketing
  • 5+ years experience in B2B technology marketing (SaaS, cloud, enterprise software, or developer platforms)
  • Demonstrated experience developing brand architecture, messaging frameworks, or portfolio strategy for multi-product organizations
  • Experience presenting strategy and recommendations to VP+ audiences

Preferred

  • Familiarity with marketing science and effectiveness research (Ehrenberg-Bass Institute, IPA, Binet & Field, Byron Sharp)
  • Working knowledge of behavioral science, cognitive psychology, or decision science (e.g., processing fluency, dual-process theory, heuristics and biases)
  • Experience with brand tracking research, mental availability measurement, or distinctive asset testing
  • Background in developer marketing or infrastructure/platform technology
  • Experience working with brand identity systems at scale (verbal and/or visual)
  • Familiarity with media strategy, reach planning, or marketing mix modeling
  • Experience at a top-tier brand consultancy, agency strategy department, or in-house brand team at a major technology company

Benefits

  • Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
  • Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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
  • parential leave
  • If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
  • Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits
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