Community Partnerships Lead: Impact & Engagement

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Hamlet (NC); On-site; USD 158,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Charlotte, NC is hiring a Community Engagement Manager to lead community first initiatives across North Carolina.

You will build relationships with residents, civic leaders, nonprofits, and local organizations to advance impact and strengthen Amazon's standing as a responsible neighbor. The role requires strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration with engineering, operations, real estate, and public policy, and hands-on community presence.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of business development, partnership management, or sourcing new business experience.
• 5+ years of professional or military experience.
• Bachelor's degree or above in a relevant discipline (e.g. Law, Political Science, Public Policy, Public Affairs, Economic Development)
• Experience building and growing relationships with internal and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with community stakeholders, including residents, civic leaders, elected officials, nonprofit partners, and local organizations.
• Lead strategy development and execution of community engagement plans for major development projects across the region.
• Manage community investments and partnerships, ensuring alignment with Amazon's community pillars and measurable local impact.
• Design and execute signature events and programs, and set the vision for sustainable community engagement initiatives with a high bar for quality.
• Own internal and external communications for community engagement programs and represent Amazon publicly across multiple channels.
• Serve as the point of contact for community centric issues, proactively identifying and addressing concerns that pose reputational risk to Amazon.
• Lead community assessments for new sites, identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and scale programming as the business grows.
• Capture and report data demonstrating the quantified and qualified impact of community engagement, and communicate results internally and externally.
• Partner with cross functional teams including engineering, operations, real estate, energy, water, sustainability, construction, legal, public policy, and public relations.
• Be physically present in the community and get work done on the ground when required.

Skills

Business development

Partnership management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Charlotte, NC is hiring a Community Engagement Manager to lead community first initiatives across North Carolina.

You will build relationships with residents, civic leaders, nonprofits, and local organizations to advance impact and strengthen Amazon's standing as a responsible neighbor. The role requires strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration with engineering, operations, real estate, and public policy, and hands-on community presence.