Highlights
You"ll work directly with senior leaders to represent Amazon before the highest levels of government, collaborate across public policy and business teams to ensure policy goals are aligned with business priorities, and partner with communications teams to craft policy briefs and talking points on a wide range of topics. You"ll spend your time shaping engagement strategy, drafting policy briefs and talking points, and working closely with Amazon"s senior executives and communications partners to ensure Amazon is well-represented before policymakers at the state and federal levels.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Arlington, VA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
Are you ready to shape how Amazon engages with policymakers at the highest levels of government? As a Policy Manager on our Public Policy team, you"ll develop and lead a policymaker engagement program for Amazon"s senior executives - driving strategy across state and federal policy priorities and helping set the public policy and advocacy agenda.
You"ll work directly with senior leaders to represent Amazon before the highest levels of government, collaborate across public policy and business teams to ensure policy goals are aligned with business priorities, and partner with communications teams to craft policy briefs and talking points on a wide range of topics. This role reports to the Head of Executive Engagement, Public Policy.
This position is based in Arlington, VA.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop and execute a policymaker engagement program for Amazon"s senior executives related to policy priorities at the state and federal levels
- Implement strategies to represent Amazon before high levels of government
- Collaborate with public policy and business teams to ensure alignment between business priorities and public policy goals
- Partner with communications teams to draft policy briefs and talking points on a range of topics
- Serve as a thought partner to policy and communications teams, helping to shape engagement strategy
- Ability and desire to travel is required
A day in the life
Your primary focus is building fluency across a wide range of policy issues and turning that knowledge into engagement strategies that support Amazon"s senior executives. This is a fast-paced role with frequent quick-turnaround deliverables, often produced on compressed timelines to support senior-executive engagements. You"ll spend your time shaping engagement strategy, drafting policy briefs and talking points, and working closely with Amazon"s senior executives and communications partners to ensure Amazon is well-represented before policymakers at the state and federal levels.
About the team
You"ll join Amazon"s Public Policy team, where business priorities and public policy goals come together. The team collaborates closely with Amazon"s senior executives, business teams, and communications partners to shape how Amazon engages with policymakers at the state and federal levels. Your work will directly support Amazon"s public policy and advocacy agenda.
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles