Executive Speechwriter, ADX Events and Creative

Amazon • Nashville, TN

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About The Position

A good script can inspire, galvanize, and build trust. It can engage the
disengaged and show how a challenge became an opportunity. Behind every one of
these scripts, is a scriptwriter. An expert storyteller who is endlessly curious
and creative. The ADX Events and Creative team is in search of a dynamic,
experienced writer with strong executive presence who is a strategic partner to
senior leaders, helping them bring to life critical business narratives that
empower small business owners and communicate the vision of Amazon’s Worldwide
Operations team across our suite of global events. This individual must have a
passion for words but also in diving deep and understanding the business behind
the storyline. This empowers them understand how the dots connect and
opportunities to uplevel the narrative with data and anecdotes. They look at a
script as part of the holistic narrative being driven by an event and find
opportunities to reinforce core messages and connect dots between across
programmatic updates and are a problem solver who understands how to surface and
evaluate tradeoffs to find common ground.

The Transportation Partner Experience team builds innovative and engaging
community-focused products for internal and external Amazon partners, including
the Delivery Service Partner community. Small business are critical to many
aspects of Amazon’s ecosystem and TPX helps these partners be successful by
building communities that connect, inform, and inspire the ecosystem of
entrepreneurs and business owners who work in harmony with us to improve
delivery flexibility, speed and reliability for our customers.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience with Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables)
• Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze data
• Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional programs or marketing campaigns from concept to completion
• Experience producing marketing promotional material for Owned & Operated channels
• Experience in brand identity and voice development
• Experience creating brand marketing content

Nice To Haves

• Experience using customer research, hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, generate forecasts, and assess the efficacy of marketing programs
• Experience utilizing systems and tools involving email, web, analytics, and CRM (Marketo, Tableau, Salesforce, etc.) for targeting, segmentation, reporting for demand generation

Responsibilities

• Ghostwrite engaging short and long form scripts for senior Amazon leaders that bring to life critical business narratives, inspire audiences, and deliver educational moments.
• Polish scripts, abstracts, and/or host remarks to improve overall storytelling and generate red threads between narratives (where applicable).
• Work with dozens of stakeholders to determine the right data and anecdotes to surface to build an argument and/or showcase the vision of a business line
• Dives deep to understand the business they are writing for to make recommendations on how to position information and understand what will resonate with the audience
• Collaborate with creative teams and agencies on ideas to bring written concepts to life visually on screen and on stage.
• Manage dozens of stakeholders to help understand business priorities and builds them into a holistic narrative
• Partner closely with event content strategist to ensure they understand the goals and messages of an event and how to leverage the script to bring those concepts to life a most compelling way
• Consult with internal team members and stakeholders about best practices and ideas for how to approach complex narratives and story lines

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed