Principal, Strategic Executive Internal Communications, Amazon Customer Service

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's CS Strategic Enablement team is seeking a Principal Communications Business Partner to provide executive-level internal communications support, drive organizational effectiveness, and elevate executive presence at the highest levels.

You will partner with CS senior leaders, shape multi-year messaging, guide change initiatives, and oversee senior leader events. This role demands strategic counsel, rigorous planning, and the ability to navigate complex, fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or a related field.
• Experience presenting to and influencing senior executives up to VP level.
• 5+ years developing and executing communications strategies for VP-level or C-suite executives in large-scale organizations, including change management, organizational transformation, high-stakes messaging, and serving as a trusted advisor.
• 10+ years of professional experience in internal, corporate, strategic, or executive communications.
• Ability to write executive-level, clear and compelling content across formats (narratives, announcements, talking points, town halls, crisis messaging).
• Strong organizational and project management skills in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary trusted advisor and strategic internal communications partner to the VP, CS: designing and executing multi-year messaging strategies that drive organizational alignment, engagement, and transformation at scale.
• Advise CS senior leadership on narrative development, tone, timing, audience segmentation, and channel selection for complex initiatives.
• Architect and execute strategic internal communications including announcements, change management messaging, leadership transitions, strategy updates, and employee engagement activations.
• Own end-to-end leadership events, including Town Halls, offsites, planning sessions, and site visits, with both strategic and tactical execution.
• Demonstrate executive presence and manage fast-changing priorities while maintaining trusted relationships.
• Proactively plan with full visibility into timelines and dependencies, ensuring responsive partnership and strong governance.

Skills

Executive communications

Stakeholder management

Change management

C-suite storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or related field

Master's degree in Communications, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or related field

Job description

The Amazon Customer Service (CS) Strategic Enablement team is seeking a Principal Communications Business Partner (BP) to provide executive-level strategic internal communications support to drive organizational effectiveness, engender employee engagement, and build strategic executive presence at the highest levels.

Customer experience is at the heart of all we do at Amazon, as we strive to be Earth's most customer centric company. CS is at the forefront of customer experience, working relentlessly to provide customers a convenient, high quality, and delightful experience – across all of our CS channels – in every interaction.

Key job responsibilities

• Serve as the primary trusted advisor and strategic internal communications partner to the VP, CS: designing and executing multi-year messaging strategies that drive organizational alignment, engagement, and transformation at scale. Provide expert counsel on narrative development, tone, timing, audience segmentation, and channel selection for the most complex communications — include restructuring, leadership transitions, and enterprise-wide initiatives
• Act as a credible challenger who sharpens CS senior leadership’s communications approach, surfaces blind spots, proactively identifies reputational risks, and drives opportunities for stronger engagement and executive presence
• Architect and execute strategic internal communications including organizational announcements, change management messaging, senior leadership transitions, strategy updates, and employee engagement activations that connect thousands of employees to CS vision and priorities
• Own end-to-end strategy, content development, and execution of CS senior leadership team events, including Town Halls, executive offsites, strategic planning sessions, and site visits. Requires equal comfort and experience at the strategic level (narrative arc, executive briefing documents, post-event measurement) and the tactical level (logistics coordination, run-of-show, day-of delivery)
• Demonstrate unshakable executive presence and composure, including in rapidly evolving scenarios where priorities, direction, or tone shift without notice. Influence and persuade effectively up, out, and laterally without direct authority. Show resilience and grace in disagree-and-commit moments, fully committing to decisions while maintaining trusted relationships
• Operate with exceptional organizational discipline within established ways of working and support office protocols. Proactively anticipate expanded review cycles, build comprehensive workback plans with full visibility into timelines and dependencies, and maintain consistent responsiveness as a baseline expectation of this partnership

A day in the life

Your day as a Principal Communications Business Partner is high-impact and strategically driven. You might start by preparing CS senior leadership for a critical employee address: refining the narrative, pressure-testing messaging, and coaching on delivery. Mid-morning could involve providing strategic counsel on how to communicate a major organizational restructuring to thousands of employees across multiple geographies, developing a phased communications plan that balances transparency with sensitivity. You might then join a CS senior leadership team meeting as the communications advisor, identifying messaging opportunities and flagging potential risks. Afternoons could include leading the design of a multi-day executive offsite or site visit - architecting the narrative arc, developing content, and ensuring strategic alignment - or managing a crisis communication that requires rapid response and stakeholder coordination. Throughout the day, you're operating as an extension of the CS senior leadership team: proactively identifying where sharper messaging, stronger narrative, or strategic communications could drive better outcomes. You're the strategic communications partner who helps CS senior leadership define the right message, then brings it to life at scale.

About the team

The Amazon Customer Service Strategic Enablement team serves as a trusted communications partner to CS' most senior leaders globally. Sitting within the broader CS Organizational Enablement organization, the Strategic Enablement team provides dedicated, high-touch communications support to our most senior stakeholders. Our mission is to ensure CS employees feel connected, informed, engaged, and valued through world-class strategic communications.

Our team operates through a Business Partner (BP) model, providing tailored communications support to CS' senior leaders. Our Business Partners serve as the single face of strategic communications for their dedicated leaders, acting as strategic advisors, credible challengers, and direct executors of high-impact work, connecting stakeholders to our full suite of communications capabilities including executive communications, change management, organizational announcements, crisis communications, and employee engagement.

We're a collaborative, high-performing team that values customer obsession, innovation, and continuous learning. We believe in the power of strategic communications to drive organizational alignment, employee engagement, and business results.

If you're passionate about leading compelling strategic executive communications, driving organizational impact at scale, and serving as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leaders, you'll thrive on our team.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or a related field
• Experience working with, presenting to and influencing senior executives up to VP level
• 5+ years developing and executing communications strategies for VP-level or C-suite executives in large-scale organizations, including change management, organizational transformation, high-stakes messaging, and serving as a trusted advisor.
• 10+ years of professional experience in internal, corporate, strategic, or executive communications
• Proven ability to write, at an executive level, clear, compelling, strategically nuanced content across multiple formats (executive narratives, organizational announcements, talking points, town halls, change communications, crisis messaging)
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills in a matrixed environment, including rigorous workback planning and adapting to executive-level working styles and approval processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Communications, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or related field
• Experience working in a global, matrixed technology or retail organization with 10,000+ employees; demonstrated ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous, fast-paced environments with significant autonomy
• Experience developing multi-year communications strategies that drive measurable organizational outcomes (engagement, alignment, retention, culture change)
• Experience designing and facilitating executive-level offsites, local site visits, senior executive town halls, or strategic planning sessions for senior leadership teams, including end-to-end content ownership

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 150,800.00 - 204,000.00 USD annually