Communications Specialist, International Stores & Corporate Communications

Amazon • Toronto, ON

6d • CA$71,500 - CA$119,400 • Hybrid

About The Position

Amazon is seeking a high-judgment, strategic and creative communications professional to join its International Stores and Corporate Communications Team in Canada. This role will be based at Amazon’s Toronto Tech Hub, with frequent travel within Canada and some international travel. The International Stores and Corporate Communications team focuses on building and protecting Amazon’s reputation by communicating stories that showcase its positive impact on customers, employees, the economy, and local communities across Canada. This role will also support the Amazon Ads business in Canada, leading storytelling about its AI innovation, extensive streaming reach through Prime Video and Live Sports, and advanced advertising technology. As a PR Specialist, you will manage proactive, positive, earned, external storytelling across Canada, supporting the team’s public relations plans by building stakeholder relationships, leading media strategies, planning events, and managing reactive issues. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record in consumer, corporate, and/or B2B public relations, ideally in an agency or in-house media-facing role, with knowledge of local media and stakeholders, and a proven ability to build strong external relationships. Internally, you will collaborate with other communications teams and business units to manage programs and craft compelling stories. Success in this role requires excellent communication skills, writing ability, initiative, and a willingness to be hands-on, with experience delivering results under tight deadlines in a complex organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
• Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or a related field
• Strong written and oral communications skills

Nice To Haves

• Working fluency in French and English
• Communications experience with internet, technology, retail, advertising and/or transportation companies
• Strong relationships with local and/or national media

Responsibilities

• Keep a finger on the pulse of industry trends and the evolving media landscape and how to develop new earned, owned, and paid communications approaches that help reach audiences
• Develop and drive communications plans, programs, and content in support of Amazon’s business and corporate reputation
• Establish and foster media relationships by serving as a trusted source and spokesperson representing Amazon
• Provide communications counsel to business leaders
• Manage reputational issues
• Exercise high judgment, particularly in narrow timeframes
• Develop creative, effective approaches to difficult communications challenges
• Develop creative ideas and new storytelling concepts
• Pay painstaking attention to detail
• Manage a high volume of requests and competing deadlines

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance)
• Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
• Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
• paid time off
• other resources to improve health and well-being

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level