Communications Manager, Small Business Empowerment

The Amazon Communications team is seeking a driven creative and savvy communications professional for the high-visibility role of Comms Manager Small Business Empowerment. You will lead proactive communications and storytelling around the many ways Amazon empowers and supports the success of small businesses. You will collaborate with stakeholders within the Selling Partner Services business to provide communications counsel on business decisions uncover new story angles and small business feature opportunities identify trends and insights to support broader small business-focused narratives and drive communications for key business announcements shopping events and moments. You will also partner directly with Amazons independent selling partners entrepreneurs founders and artisans to craft impactful narratives around how they are growing their businesses with Amazon.

This role is located in Seattle WA.

You are a self-starter who can clearly formulate and communicate comms recommendations and plans to both peers and executives drive collaborative decisions build relationships internally and externally and deliver results. You are also comfortable collaborating with stakeholders and teams across disciplines to develop comprehensive comms campaigns. Additionally this role will consistently work with a range of media contacts across local and national ecommerce trade consumer and business publications including nontraditional media such as podcasts Substack newsletters and social media. You bring strong media relations experience and a keen eye for new and emerging channels.

The ideal candidate will have strong consumer and/or corporate communications experience a track record of successfully managing proactive announcements with coverage results and media relations expertise in pitching proactive stories on a national and local scale while managing issues and reactive storylines. You are passionate about supporting our selling partner community particularly small and medium-sized businesses and highlighting Amazons support for this community through creative communications campaigns.

Key job 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 Amazons 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
- Willingness to represent Amazon as a spokesperson

- 7 years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
- Bachelors degree

- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 139500.00 - 188300.00 USD annually

Required Experience:

Manager

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