The Senior Brand Strategist drives global brand and creative strategy for AWS actively shaping how the brand is perceived in the world. This role is highly collaborative and focused on brand positioning messaging and creative strategy for our brand identity and design system events brand campaigns content and beyond. Youll be responsible for clarifying various inputs identifying novel insights and brand opportunities creating mechanisms to enable the larger marketing organization and crafting creative briefs that lead to consistent compelling and distinct brand experiences that positively shift brand perceptions and grow our business.
Key job responsibilities
- Partner with Brand Insights team to conduct analyze and synthesize customer and creative research to inform brand and marketing outputs
- Connect the dots between business goals customer insights marketing strategies and creative development
- Identify novel customer insights and brand opportunities to drive consistent high-bar creative which positively shift perceptions and grows our business
- Actively shape foundational brand guidance including brand positioning messaging personality and voice and tone guidance
- Partner closely with global teams and develop scalable mechanisms to activate global positioning messaging and creative strategy across the business
- Collaborate with creative marketing and product stakeholders to define the brand experience across the customer experience to deliver high-quality consistent and distinct customer experiences.
- Write creative briefs and meaningfully collaborate with creative teams to deliver bar-raising performant creative outcomes
- Present creative strategy and recommendations to senior leadership (VP/SVP/C-suite); influencing decision making through data-driven and emotional storytelling and gracefully defend decisions and recommendations
- Elevate the discipline of brand and creative strategy through the development and delivery of brand training and thought leadership
- Manage multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced dynamic culture
- Facilitate open and productive strategic debates that result in the best possible outcomes for customers
- Contribute to a diverse and inclusive creative culture that enables world-class creative development
About the team
The AWS Brand & Creative team brings together brand strategy and creative expression to build and maintain the AWS brand. We use data insight inspiration and intuition to set the standards and raise the bar in every touchpoint in every story and every piece of creative we make. We are relentlessly collaborative and believe greatness is possible in everything we do.
AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its 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 and Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional
- Experience managing and coordinating multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience working across teams and synthesizing feedback from multiple teams/owners
- 7 years experience in brand development or strategy inside advertising agencies brand strategy consultancies or in-house marketing organizations
- Experience leading 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 develop clear and durable visual brand systems across several partner and customer touch points
- Experience managing external agencies
- 10 years experience as a brand planner/strategist inside brand/advertising agencies brand strategy consultancies or the equivalent role inside a brand marketing organization
- Experience with AWS or AI and cloud/infrastructure sectors
- Track record of navigating complex businesses and producing breakthrough famous work that drove results
- Experience defining mechanisms for using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco 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 $127100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210300/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.