Brand Strategist, Brand Advertising

Amazon
WA, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/13/2024
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/13/2025

DESCRIPTION

Are you interested in driving the creative strategy for the world’s most innovative brand? Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com and a leader in cloud computing, is seeking a Brand Strategist with a passion for using data to drive bar-raising brand insights. This is a role that will challenge you in all the best ways as you inspire and inform the brand vision, and raise the quality and consistency of all marketing work for AWS.

The Brand Strategist will meaningfully contribute to brand and campaign initiatives for the cloud computing market leader, informing brand identity, design, and creative content including events, marketing campaigns, long-form and short-form videos, and beyond. This role will work closely with Brand leadership and Senior Brand Strategists to gather various inputs (marketing or business objectives and insights, market and customer research, analytics and brand studies, social and cultural trends, creative opportunities) to identify novel customer insights and brand opportunities, and creating frameworks and mechanisms enable the larger marketing organization.

Key job responsibilities
* Conduct, analyze, and synthesis customer and market research to inform brand and marketing outputs
* Identify novel customer insights and brand opportunities to drive consistent, high-bar creative which positively shift perceptions and grows our business
* Contribute to the development of foundational brand guidance including positioning, architecture and portfolio strategy, naming, and brand identity
* Collaborate with design and marketing partners to define the brand experience across the customer experience including visual expression, voice and tone, messaging, channel, and format
* Provide inputs to campaign strategies and creative briefs that articulate insights that will inspire creative teams, and provide measureable creative and content strategies
* Build out brand training materials for marketing stakeholders and peers
* Participate in open and productive strategic debates that result in the best possible outcomes for customers
* Manage multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic, culture.
* Collaborate and build relationships with marketing stakeholders across AWS, as well as usability, business, and development teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, on-brand customer experiences
* Contribute to a diverse and inclusive creative culture that enables world-class creative development
* Present solutions and gracefully defend decisions to executive management

A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.

About the team
AWS Brand is a team of strategists, designers, copywriters, project managers, and beyond, all working to build an inclusive and ownable brand implemented at a global scale. We pride ourselves in being great listeners and question askers, strategic thinkers and problem solvers, working on behalf of the customer and in support of the entire AWS org.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5 years' experience in marketing or brand management inside advertising agencies, brand strategy consultancies, or in-house marketing organizations
- Experience contributing to brand positioning, voice and tone, and visual system development for large organizations with complex product and service offerings
- Experience working with marketing stakeholders and brand creative teams to define and maintain clear and durable visual brand systems across several partner and customer touch points
- Experience managing multiple projects and the ability to meet aggressive deadlines
- Ability to work cross-team and synthesize feedback from multiple teams/owners
- Proven ability to influence and obtain buy-in for creative ideas
- Experience presenting and championing work to senior executives
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business or similar field OR an additional 4 years' marketing experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience providing inputs and ideas customer insights, creative and brand strategy for omni-channel marketing campaigns including long-form and short-form videos
- Experience defining mechanisms for using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
- Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze data
- Experience managing external agency relationships

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $108,400/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.

Salary : $108,400 - $185,000

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