Amazon Devices is looking for a Sr Marketing Manager for Events to help drive programs designed to discover and integrate new carbonreducing technologies into our products services and operations. As a founding member of a new initiative in Amazon Devices this Marketing Manager will play a pivotal role in defining and implementing programs to accelerate the maturation and adoption of new tech from startups and scaleups. Working alongside Product Management Solutions Architects Commodity and Operations experts you will operate in multiple capacities:
a) as a marketing manager responsible for designing and delivering the daytoday programming of multiweek cohortbased
b) as a central point of leadership to coordinate cohort related contributions of internal stakeholders and 3rd party operators
c) as a program management lead for crossfunctional planning activities related to designing a future a portfolio of future cohort programs
The successful candidate must have a solid understanding of marketing and communications a history of concepting managing and delivering event programming. This includes live inperson experiences live virtual experiences and preproduced virtual content. In addition the candidate will have a demonstrated competence in driving a cross functional team to successfully set visions establish interim milestones and execute tactically. The candidate must be comfortable operating in ambiguity (i.e. helping the team drive clarity when faced with new or unexpected challenges) establishing mechanisms that scale to support repeatability and establishing and tracking key success measures. In addition the successful candidate also has strong communication across various levels of seniority. Because the team is spy the candidate must be willing to roll up their sleeves to deliver the small details. Youll work across many groups get broad exposure to the entire business and engage with external technology ventures. You are comfortable taking initiative and working across teams in a relatively unstructured environment. You are also comfortable innovating and building programs from the ground up and managing multiple projects while balancing conflicting priorities in a rapidly changing environment.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr Marketing Manager your responsibilities will include driving cohort schedules from concept through launch and completion and using metrics to provide status along the way. You will:
Build execute and scale crossfunctional event content & programming.
Be the endtoend owner of programming for Amazon and thirdparty event general sessions main stages speaker selection and preparation and keynote delivery.
Identify resourcing plan for event content balancing internal resources with agency support maintaining customer obsession and frugality.
Manage internal creative partners to ensure quality onbudget ontime delivery of marketing programs and assets across multiple channels
Set and hold a consistently high bar for design and content quality of all customerfacing event materials oversee event content endtoend including creative input development and from concept to completion act as final reviewer of all event content including voice grammar and copy editing with attention to detail and relentlessly high quality and standards.
Drive crossfunctional strategic planning efforts for future cohorts. While not solely responsible for strategic product visions you will be a contributor.
Dive deep to keep projects on track maintaining operational excellence with projects and with colleagues across Amazon.
Anticipate bottlenecks provide escalation management anticipate and make tradeoffs and balance the business needs versus resource constraints.
Clearly and concisely communicate (both verbally and in writing) to drive alignment with crossfunctional teams and update senior management on program metrics status risks and required mitigations to maintain project commitments.
Compile learnings and share best practices across teams to increase effectiveness and drive multiyear planning activities
About the team
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers highprofile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon Inc. originally creating the bestselling Kindle family of products. Since then we have produced devices like Fire tablets Fire TV and Amazon Echo. Within Lab126 the Sustainability organization focuses intently on reducing our carbon impact and making our products and their experiences more sustainable for business and the planet. Within sustainability this spy group is tasked with sourcing evaluating engaging and ideally integrating new technologies (from startups and scaleups) in a way that helps to reduce the carbon footprint of our products services and operations.
6 years of professional noninternship marketing experience
Experience building executing and scaling crossfunctional marketing programs
Experience developing and executing campaigns across a multitude of timezones and languages
Experience driving direction and alignment with large crossfunctional teams and agency partners
Experience designing and executing joint marketing plans with strategic alliance partners with global footprint
Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
Experience with Excel or Tableau (data manipulation macros charts and pivot tables)
Experience in Strategy development: formulating marketing strategies aligned with overall business and marketing objectives
Analysis and Reporting: measuring the success of marketing campaigns through postcampaign analysis gathering feedback and providing insights for continuous improvement
Experience presenting ideas to various levels of an organization to gain support for initiatives
Adaptability: staying updated on industry trends technologies and product marketing best practices to bring innovation to the product marketing space
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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 Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $106400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.