Sr. Speechwriter And Content Creator, Brand Programs, Amazon Business

• 5+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership
• Experience communicating results to stakeholders
• Experience in B2B, digital advertising, and ad-tech products/services
• Bachelors degree

Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion-dollar global business. At Amazon Business, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech and retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help organizations reshape buying. Bring your insight, imagination, and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business, unlocking our potential worldwide. The Sr. Speechwriter and Content Creator, Brand Programs, will develop and edit content and speeches for Amazon Business leadership teams. Compelling, high-quality, engaging content is a key component of our strategy, and this role will be critical in developing it. The ideal candidate will be an experienced writer who possesses sound judgment and experience working with senior leaders. They work well in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments, and have proven experience managing competing priorities and working effectively across a number of internal stakeholders. They should also be able to demonstrate strong proficiency in gaining leadership alignment while crafting effective and engaging speeches, videos scripts, and presentations to be delivered by leadership for internal (employees) and external (customers and analysts) audiences. This role requires exceptional verbal and written communication skills and strong attention to detail. The right candidate will work closely with leadership, adapt to their individual voices, and deliver high-quality writing. They can adeptly work backwards from ambiguous requirements to generate clear, concise content. This role requires frequent engagement with Amazon Business leaders as they present to audiences worldwide, and will require a strong executive presence and discretion.
Key job responsibilities

• Serve as a Speechwriter and Content Creator for senior executives at proprietary and brand-owned events, C-level customer meetings, sales events, and other internal (employee engagement) and external (customer marketing and event-based) speeches and videos to be delivered by senior leadership. • Partner with the content and event teams to identify the right executives for marketing (e.g., Amazon Business Value Proposition video), events (e.g., Amazon Business Reshape), and paid sponsorship opportunities (e.g., WSJ CEO Council) based on subject matter expertise and business goals. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to build executive content, scripts, and strategy for events. • Create and deliver sales content and talking points, speeches, scripts (recommending visuals when possible) for Amazon Business senior leadership to be used for customer and employee facing materials. • Recommend best practices and proactively recognize opportunities to reuse, repackage, and optimize content for events. • Measure results (evaluations, attendance, feedback) on content and communicate findings back to key stakeholders.

A day in the life
Your day-to-day responsibilities might include: meeting with internal content teams to identify upcoming opportunities and Content needs; developing or editing content/speeches/talking points/video scripts for leaders to be used at proprietary (Amazon Business owned) and brand-owned (Amazon Business sponsored) events and meetings; researching and proposing content ideas; and selecting and preparing Amazon Business speakers for sales/customer-facing/and internal events.
About the team
Please note that this is a marketing role, not a communications or a public relations role. The speechwriter will join Amazon Business’ Brand & Thought Leadership team (within Central Marketing), which works to help Amazon Business develop relationships with C-level audiences around the world. You'll work alongside strategists, event marketing managers, content marketing managers, and sales teams to help our senior leaders engage effectively with C-levels worldwide. While this role focuses on content creation in close coordination with the Communications team, this role does not involve engaging externally with press and/or influencers. This role will reside in the marketing/brand/content function.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

• Experience in marketing or marketing research
• 6+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $112,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $186,500/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.

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