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Amazon Owned Content Specialist, Devices & Services in Seattle, Washington

Description

Amazon is seeking a creative storyteller and organized project manager to join our Devices & Services PR team—the team that tells stories about products like Alexa, Ring, Kindle, and more. As the lead for Devices & Services’ owned channels, you’ll manage the production of stories across various channels (About Amazon, corporate social, and internal channels), and execute promotion and measurement programs to extend the global reach of our owned content. The person in this role will act as an in-house reporter, working to uncover engaging, differentiated stories from across the Devices & Services business—and bringing these stories to life through written and visual content on Amazon’s owned channels.

The ideal candidate will be a good writer and editor with experience identifying and crafting stories that resonate with key audiences. You will be creative, collaborative, and adept at making tech-focused stories more human. You will work equally well with PR, business, and other partner teams. You will balance being scrappy and moving quickly with building a program that scales.

Key job responsibilities

•Strategy: Help develop and implement the owned storytelling strategy for Amazon Devices & Services in line with global PR and business goals.

•Content Creation: Act as an embedded reporter, working across the Devices & Services organization to uncover engaging, differentiated stories and bring them to life across channels.

•Project Management: Manage an editorial calendar to deliver results on deadline.

•Experimenting & Scaling: Develop best practices and create playbooks and toolkits to make our work more consistent and efficient.

•Measurement & Evaluation: Develop/implement cohesive measurement to understand program success. Make real-time program adjustments based on results.

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience

  • Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

  • Equally comfortable producing stories, from concept to final deliverable, solo or as a part of a team

  • Experience balancing multiple projects – short and long-term – and delivering on deadline every time

  • Outstanding attention to detail and communication skills

  • Ability to exercise high judgment in narrow time-frames

  • Innovates and develops new, peculiar, and effective ideas

  • Self-driven, entrepreneurial spirit—enjoys taking responsibility and making things happen

  • Tactically aware—knowledgeable about what’s going on in digital communications and able to apply these insights

  • Thrives in a collaborative environment and is willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $68,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $147,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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