PR Specialist, Devices & Services Communications

Amazon • Seattle, WA

22h • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon is seeking a highly organized, self-motivated, high-judgement, and creative professional to join our Devices & Services PR team in Seattle. As a PR Specialist, you will work with the PR team and key business leaders to design and execute programs that support our cross-team launch strategy, including building mechanisms that benefit the entire PR team and executing major launch moments. In this role, you will work across many of our core businesses, including Echo, Alexa, Fire TV, Ring, Kindle, and more. You will also lead the D&S Industry Intelligence Program, delivering insights that inform our communications strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
• Experience engaging and influencing senior executives
• Experience coordinating cross-functional inputs, meeting deadlines, and effectively managing competing priorities
• Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
• Proven track record managing large-scale, multi-workstream events or programs end-to-end.
• Experience building, maintaining, and measuring communications or project management mechanisms.

Nice To Haves

• Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks
• Experience in managing multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization
• Knowledge of key technology and market trends
• Experience working in consumer technology PR, marketing communications, events, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated ability to build and improve scalable program management tools (e.g., Asana, Airtable, or similar).
• Experience working with global or international teams on global events or campaigns to reach consumer and tech media, creators, influencers, and analysts.
• Strong judgment and the ability to respond quickly, yet thoughtfully, to urgent matters.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute programs that support our cross-team launch strategy.
• Build mechanisms that benefit the entire PR team.
• Execute major launch moments.
• Work across many of our core businesses, including Echo, Alexa, Fire TV, Ring, Kindle, and more.
• Lead the D&S Industry Intelligence Program, delivering insights that inform our communications strategies.

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