Description

Amazon is seeking a creative Sr. Editor to ideate, assign, edit, and produce content targeted to internal corporate employees worldwide. This role will work closely with stakeholders across the organization to reframe and optimize Amazon news stories for an internal audience. This role is on the Internal Corporate Communications team within Global Communications and Community Impact.

The ideal candidate is an experienced journalist or storyteller with excellent writing and editing skills and strong editorial judgment. Previous experience writing content targeted to internal employees on employee experience topics is highly preferred. This person will manage multiple stories and company news items that matter most to employees such as Amazon’s Leadership Principles, benefits, compensation, career growth, IT, GREF, and security. They should be able to shape editorial content and strategy using a mix of audience data and innate story judgment. This person should be a pro at shaping stories with a compelling voice and angle and should feel comfortable collaborating with writers across the organization to reframe stories. They will also be responsible for ideating and generating original, compelling stories for our internal audiences, focusing largely around high-priority company initiatives.

This is an individual contributor role reporting into Internal Corporate Communication’s Editor in Chief. Candidates should feel comfortable working with data to understand audience interest and use that to guide editorial strategy. However, they should also embrace innovative storytelling and experiment with new types of content. They should also be an excellent communicator who should be able to galvanize multiple stakeholders — including PR and business leaders — around a successful content approach. The successful candidate will have leadership experience; a proven track record of developing and delivering compelling stories and campaigns with measurable results; and a strong understanding of the current digital content landscape. They should be a strategic, global thinker; goal oriented; and enjoy working in a fast-paced, start-up culture.

Key job responsibilities

• Strategy: Develop and implement the internal editorial content strategy for featured stories in line with company priorities and business goals.

• Execution: Maintain a very high bar for all content published globally to all employees and reinforce editorial standards and best practices across the broader Internal Corporate Communications team.

• Content: Oversee the employee experience editorial calendar, content, and campaigns tied to key storytelling and news moments and collaborate with employee-facing channel owners, including A to Z (the company intranet), companywide email newsletters, digital screens, and more.

• Partnership: Act as a content thought partner to business comms teams, providing counsel and guidance throughout all stages of editorial planning, execution, and analysis.

• Measurement & Evaluation: Work with channels and insights partners to set content goals and implement cohesive measurement plans to understand program success. Make real-time program adjustments based on results.

• Experiment & Scale: Experiment with story types and topics, develop best practices, and create playbooks and toolkits to make our global work more consistent and efficient.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of developing and managing acquisition marketing or channel programs experience

• Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs

• Experience developing and executing campaigns across a multitude of timezones and languages

• 6+ years of communications, marketing, or journalism experience

• 6+ years of digital content or content marketing experience

• Experience working with data and analytics to make strategic content decisions

• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving direction and alignment with large cross-functional teams and agency partners

• Experience designing and executing joint marketing plans with strategic alliance partners with global footprint

• Strongly prefer candidates with experience with HR-related communications

• Masterful storyteller with a journalism background

• Proven track record of strategic planning and delivery on significant digital content campaigns tied to measurable business, brand, and/or communications goals

• Ability to exercise high judgment in narrow timeframes

• 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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.