Communications Manager

Minimum of 10 years of public relations experience
- Fluent written and verbal English and Spanish
- Experience working directly with customers, and developing their stories
- Proven experience managing large projects
- Extensive experience working with media, industry analysts, and other corporate influencers
- Experience with Latin American technology media

Job summary
Would you like to be part of a communications team that is building awareness about how cloud technology is helping transform businesses and government services around the world? Are you excited by creating communications strategies, and crafting compelling content that sets the agenda? Are you passionate about the fast-moving changes technology enables, and the positive impact it is having on people and the world around us?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading provider of cloud computing services, providing IT infrastructure offerings ranging from on-demand compute capacity to storage, content delivery, and database services, to machine learning, Internet of Things, serverless technologies, and more. The AWS Public Relations (PR) team is at the forefront of shaping communications around the most advanced technologies on the planet and helping customers and partners maximize the benefits of cloud computing.

AWS is looking for a self-motivated, well-connected, and experienced communications professional to join the Latin America (LATAM) communications team. Supporting the AWS business in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Peru, and Central America and Caribbean (CCA), this role will lead a broad communications campaign to drive local awareness of AWS. This includes telling the AWS story to a diverse audience such as technology leaders and practitioners, business leaders, policy-makers and government officials, and the general public, through the core pillars of innovation, economic development, and social impact, with the themes of customer obsession, technical leadership, pace of innovation, and breadth of services, which are central to our story.

This role is set to be primarily based in Brazil and requires periodic local and international travel.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop and execute effective communications strategies for AWS Latin America through a sustained, strategic program that supports local business growth
- Create compelling content with customers and partners to generate powerful stories about the transformational impact of cloud technology in region
- Write and edit press releases, pitches, PR plans, and related materials
- Foster strong relationships externally with customers/partner and press, as well as internally with business stakeholders, and regional and global team members
- Innovate launch processes for services and features locally, in alignment with a dynamic, pioneering cloud business, with a focus on breadth and impact
- Work with Public Policy teams to lead and respond to complex regulatory, business, and technology issues
- Provide issues management counsel, and strategic advice to the business to help maintain AWS’s reputation as a good corporate citizen
- Amplify marketing events and initiatives, including AWS Summit and AWS re: Invent, with media relations programs including news announcements, one-on-one engagements with AWS executives, customers, and partners; and media education
- Train, certify, and develop business leaders as company spokespeople, ensuring they accurately represent the Amazon culture and technology to the public
- Excellent written and oral communications skills
- Team player who is willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done
- Strong relationships and network of local media contacts
- Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and organisational skills, while also staying on top of tactical execution
- Relentlessly high standards
- Outstanding attention to detail
- Creativity and bias for action