Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with community stakeholders, including residents, civic leaders, elected officials, nonprofit partners, and local organizations.
• Lead strategy development and execution of community engagement plans for major development projects across the region.
• Manage community investments and partnerships, ensuring alignment with Amazon's community pillars and measurable local impact.
• Design and execute signature events and programs, and set the vision for sustainable community engagement initiatives with a high bar for quality.
• Own internal and external communications for community engagement programs and represent Amazon publicly across multiple channels.
• Serve as the point of contact for community centric issues, proactively identifying and addressing concerns that pose reputational risk to Amazon.
• Lead community assessments for new sites, identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and scale programming as the business grows.
• Capture and report data demonstrating the quantified and qualified impact of community engagement, and communicate results internally and externally.
• Partner with cross functional teams including engineering, operations, real estate, energy, water, sustainability, construction, legal, public policy, and public relations.
• Be physically present in the community and get work done on the ground when required.

Requirements

• 5+ years of business development, partnership management, or sourcing new business experience
• 5+ years of professional or military experience
• Bachelor's degree or above in a relevant discipline (e.g. Law, Political Science, Public Policy, Public Affairs, Economic Development)
• Experience building and growing relationships with internal and external partners

Preferred

• Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders
• Experience owning program strategy, end-to-end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities

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.