Senior Social Strategist, XCM

Amazons Cross Channel Marketing (XCM) team is seeking a Senior Social Strategist to serve as our internal social media expert across Amazon Prime and other flagship brands. This role sits at the intersection of brand strategy and creative development translating business objectives into breakthrough social strategies that build brand strength and drive customer engagement.
You will be the dedicated social expert working alongside brand strategists partnering with creative teams media planners/strategists and marketing managers to shape how Amazon shows up in social channels. You live and breathe social media understanding platform dynamics cultural trends and customer behavior across SMAs (Meta TikTok Snapchat YouTube Reddit etc.). You translate these insights into strategic creative briefs that inspire world-class creative and inform data-driven measurement and optimizations. You also use whats happening in social mediaemerging trends cultural moments and customer conversationsto inform both social-first strategies and broader brand strategies.
You will develop social strategies for brand campaigns and tentpole moments like Prime Day and Black Friday brief internal and external creative teams and help measure outcomes to optimize future work. You thrive in a small but mighty team that operates at many speedsmoving fast when needed while taking time for deep strategic thinking.
The ideal candidate brings advertising agency and/or social platform experience combines analytical rigor with creative thinking and is customer-obsessed. You are comfortable leading cross-functional project teams influencing stakeholders and experimenting with new approaches to social media.


Key job responsibilities
Social Strategy Development
Develop social media strategies for campaigns spanning brands
Translate business objectives and brand strategies into actionable social strategies leveraging platform-specific opportunities
Lead social strategy development for tentpole events (e.g. Prime Day) as part of integrated campaigns
Identify opportunities to build brand strength through paid and organic social channels
Creative Strategy & Briefing
Create strategic creative briefs for internal XCM creative teams and external agency partners
Partner with creative teams throughout campaign development to ensure strategic alignment
Apply deep understanding of social platforms customer behavior and cultural trends to inform creative direction
Brief content across all formats
Cross-Functional Partnership
Serve as the social media expert for brand strategy team providing platform expertise and insights
Partner with dedicated paid social team to align strategy with media planning and execution
Collaborate with marketing managers creatives media planners and measurement teams
Lead cross-functional project teams to deliver integrated social campaigns
Insights & Measurement
Use social listening tools customer research platforms and personal experience to mine insights and identify opportunities for engagement
Help develop measurement frameworks to evaluate campaign performance and brand impact
Analyze outcomes to identify learnings and optimize future strategies
Familiarity and interest in AI as a tool

About the team
The XCM (Cross-Channel Marketing) team focuses on building the Amazon Prime and other partner brands through innovative measurable and high-impact advertising campaigns. We work with both external ad agencies and full-service internal teams to achieve our goals.

- 6 years of professional non-internship marketing experience
- Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
- Experience building executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs
- Experience communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience with social listening tools (Sprinklr Brandwatch) customer research platforms (GWI) and real-time social monitoring

- Knowledge of general AI tools
- Experience working for or with Creative Agencies
- Strong understanding of social media advertising capabilities and creative best practices across platforms
- Agency experience and/or social platform experience (e.g. Meta TikTok Snapchat YouTube Reddit)
- Experience measuring brand impact through social media campaigns

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.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Santa Monica - 125400.00 - 169600.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 137900.00 - 186500.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 125400.00 - 169600.00 USD annually