Communications Specialist, Prime Air

Amazon • Arlington, VA

1d • $76,600 - $134,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon is looking for a Communications Specialist to join its Stores Communications team supporting Prime Air drone delivery. Prime Air is Amazon's commercial drone delivery service—a fully operational, FAA-authorized program delivering to customers across multiple U.S. metro areas. This role will provide strategic communications support for Prime Air and is based in Seattle, WA or Arlington, VA. This role operates at the forefront of innovation, requiring the ability to drive communications strategies in ambiguous, fast-changing environments. The ideal candidate will bring structure to complexity while helping customers understand, trust, and adopt transformative delivery technology.

Requirements

• 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
• Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to drive progress and earn trust while working across multiple teams
• Experience working directly with media
• Experience with government and regulation topics
• Ability to operate independently while coordinating across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Solid judgment, particularly in narrow time frames
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple launches and timelines simultaneously

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute media strategies to support customer understanding of Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service.
• Manage proactive media stories and incoming media inquiries with high judgment.
• Develop and manage reactive communications for operational topics.
• Prepare forward-looking plans for emerging issues and scenarios.
• Develop informative written and visual content to help tell the story of Prime Air across media, digital, and social channels.
• Support executive communications and briefing materials for media events.
• Work across internal stakeholders to deliver objectives.
• Write and execute communications plans.
• Develop and write press releases and media pitches.
• Build relationships with reporters from key media outlets.
• Write, develop, and manage approvals for communications and external messaging dealing with sensitive and timely topics.

Benefits

• 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
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

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