Public Policy Manager, Connectivity & Space, Southeast Asia, International Public Policy, International Public Policy

Work hard and make history with Amazons International Public Policy and Government Affairs Team. The Manager will join a dynamic team that works across Europe Middle East Africa India and Asia Pacific in support of Amazons global consumer and digital businesses. Like our business interests our policy issues are broad forward-thinking and driven by what is best for our customers. The International Public Policy team works with a wide range of national local and supranational policymakers industry organizations and non-governmental organizations across policy issues spanning the consumer and commercial environment - including but not limited to digital technology consumer affairs connectivity economic development e-commerce exports logistics devices and tax.

Key job responsibilities
This role will support advocacy and outreach to policymakers for Project Kuiper Amazons initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites that will provide low-latency high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

The Manager will work closely with cross-functional Kuiper teams including Regulatory Business and Legal teams. They will manage senior policymaker engagement to support Kuipers country entry and business needs across Southeast Asia including defining strategy executing advocacy campaigns and representing the company with policymakers consultants and trade associations. The Manager will also be able to immediately and directly enhance Amazons advocacy on a broad range of telecoms and space-related policy issues.

- Bachelors degree in a relevant field
- 10 years dealing with the international legislative and regulatory policy process preferably within the telecoms connectivity space or technology industries.
- 10 years of relevant public policy and advocacy experience e.g. within corporate public policy and government relations in public administration trade associations or non-governmental organizations

- Advanced degree in relevant field.
- Availability to travel internationally as appropriate.
- Ability to communicate clearly concisely and accurately (both written and oral).
- Strong knowledge of connectivity/telecoms spectrum space or other regulated industry policy issues.
- Candidates will be able to demonstrate their experience through previous work within companies consultancies trade associations the government or equivalent organizations.
- Sets a course in the face of ambiguity to deliver independently asking the right questions clearing blockers and escalating appropriately. Self-starter who can take general direction and produce specific results.
- Ability to work across a highly dispersed global team and to be a highly collaborative team player.
- Highly effective oral written and interpersonal communication skills; demonstrated ability to effectively and comfortably interact at all corporate and political levels. Ability to work with technical and specialized teams to distill factual relevant and easily understandable talking points and other messaging and persuasively deliver it to relevant audiences.
- Maintain highest personal levels of ethical conduct confidentiality and integrity with strongest professional reputation in the industry.
- Ability to identify and understand key technical aspects pertaining to corporate operations in legislative and regulatory proposals understand business implications and synthesize policy documents for internal and external customers. You can think critically process data from multiple sources forecast potential scenarios prioritize based on probability and desired outcome and recommend a best course of action.
- Ability to influence negotiate with and effectively persuade others is required. Must be flexible and demonstrate strong judgment / decision-making skills and political acumen and awareness.
- Ability to think critically process data from multiple sources forecast potential scenarios prioritize based on probability and desired outcome and recommend a best course of action
- Ability to intelligently build a course of action analyze trade-offs and make recommendations even in ambiguous situations.

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