Responsibilities

• Define, develop, and own the end-to-end communications strategy for Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service.
• Serve as a senior on-the-record spokesperson for Prime Air with top-tier business, technology, and consumer media.
• Shape and direct long-form narrative and visual storytelling to build understanding of Prime Air across media, digital, and social channels.
• Lead high-stakes proactive and reactive media moments with high judgment, anticipating and mitigating reputational risk.
• Build and execute forward-looking communications plans for business developments and emerging issues.
• Advise and influence senior business, legal, and public policy leaders, aligning stakeholders across the organization on communications objectives and strategies.
• Develop and strengthen relationships with reporters and editors at key national and regional media outlets.
• Write, develop, and manage approvals for communications and external messaging on sensitive, complex, and time-critical topics.
• Orchestrate cross-team collaboration across a large organization to move communications strategies and tactics from plan to execution.
• Set high standards for the craft of communications and elevate the quality of storytelling across the program.

Requirements

• 10+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience developing and leading successful communications campaigns
• Experience in media relations and issues management
• Experience serving as an on-the-record spokesperson

Preferred

• Top-notch written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to drive progress and earn trust while operating across multiple teams and senior stakeholders
• Experience working directly with national and top-tier media
• Experience with government, regulation, and emerging technology policy topics
• Ability to set strategy and operate independently while coordinating across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Expert judgment, particularly under high-pressure and narrow time frames
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple launches, issues, and timelines simultaneously
• Experience communicating complex concepts clearly and persuasively to different audiences
• Experience anticipating and managing reputational risk

Benefits

• Amazon 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
• parental leave