Communications Manager, Small Business Empowerment, Selling Partner Services Communications

Responsibilities

• Lead communications strategy for how Amazon supports small businesses as part of its selling partner community
• Develop and execute announcements, launches, and narratives that generate results
• Provide strategic counsel to executives and business teams on messaging and positioning
• Work cross-functionally to create feature opportunities for small business owners in Amazon’s store
• Cultivate and manage relationships with top-tier media contacts
• Write and evolve storylines and talking points in a thoughtful and strategic way
• Build, guide, and execute comms plans, including communicating plans internally and securing leadership approvals
• Navigate complex, fast-moving, and unexpected communications challenges
• Identify opportunities to create news moments and develop strategic recommendations
• Help manage a third-party agency to support comms activities

Requirements

• 7+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
• Bachelor's degree

Preferred

• Consumer or Corporate communications experience
• Ability to successfully manage proactive announcements with coverage results
• Media relations expertise in pitching proactive stories on a national and local scale, and managing issues and reactive storylines

Benefits

• Amazon 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, and parental leave.