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Job summary
Amazon is seeking a self-motivated, creative communications professional to join our Devices & Services PR teamthe team responsible for telling stories of intention and impact about products like Echo, Alexa, Kindle, Fire TV, Halo, and more. In this role, you will develop engaging and shareable content and bring proactive and news-driven stories to life on Amazon's owned channels.
You are a proficient writer with experience identifying and crafting stories that resonate with key audiences. You are creative, collaborative, and adept at making tech-focused stories more human and relatable and can work equally well with PR, marketing, and brand design teams. You can also balance being scrappy and moving quickly with building a program that scales across multiple countries.
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Key job responsibilities
• Partner with a Director of Owned Channels & Content, product PR teams, and the Amazon Devices & Services Brand Design team to create compelling written and visual content for Amazon's owned channels.
• Use visual assets like customer videos, explainer graphics, and lab/tech videos and photo stories to make consumer tech topics interesting and relatable.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work/Life Balance
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeboth in and outside of work.
Mentorship and Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years of writing or communications experience
• Experience telling relatable, compelling stories about complex topics and/or products
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
• A knack for diplomacy and the confidence to engage and build consensus with leaders at all levels
• Exceptional attention to detail and communication skills
• Tactically awareknowledgeable about what's going on in digital communications and able to apply these insights to make their programs stronger
• Innovates and develops new, peculiar, and effective ideas
• Self-driven, entrepreneurial spirit, enjoys taking responsibility and making things happen
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.