External Relations Manager, Customer Trust External Relations

The Customer Trust External Relations (CTXR) organization works to ensure positive public perception of Amazon"s trustworthy shopping experience. We are the safest place for customers to shop online, and the customer-obsessed tools our teams build help ensure customers have a trustworthy shopping experience in our store every time with every product, whether purchased from Amazon or from the millions of sellers in our stores around the world.

An important part of CTXR's charter is finding opportunities to engage thought-leaders, policymakers, and media on the trustworthiness of the store and improving public perception of the industry leading work our teams do on behalf of our customers. CTXR also acts as an internal advocate to help teams increase positive perception of their work and a creative ideas engine for ways to improve external awareness and excitement around that work. We accelerate and strengthen third-party advocacy and partnerships to benefit customers and drive improvements within the retail industry.

We're looking for a high-judgement and self-motivated individual, with experience bridging business needs, high-value communications, and government or regulatory environments, to lead external relations and strategic engagements related to Amazon's product safety initiatives. The candidate for this role excels at developing winning engagement and content development strategies, executing tactical plans, and delivering measurable results and positive impact. This role operates in a fast-paced, highly-ambiguous, frequently-changing environment, and will require a team member who has good judgement, excellent written communication skills, and is comfortable interacting with both internal and external leaders and working with cross-functional teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Help improve positive public perception of Amazon"s product safety initiatives worldwide by creating and driving integrated project plans that have clear, measurable success criteria across multiple initiatives in multiple regions.
• Work closely and collaboratively with design, program and product teams from partner teams, as well as Public Relations, Public Policy, and Legal to execute initiatives, proactively identifying opportunities and mitigating any risks.
• Develop and maintain key relationships with third party stakeholders on product integrity issues.
• Execute a range of external communications programs and events in support of initiatives and program goals, seeking to increase experimentation in storytelling and creative communications to educate and excite external partners.
• Participate in conferences and external meetings focused on product integrity issues. This will eventually include frequent domestic and international travel (~20%).
• Develop and deliver educational and training materials for both internal and external consumption.

Bring a high energy, results-oriented and resourceful mindset and quickly take control of your responsibilities.

This role reports to the CTXR lead for product integrity, increasing education and comfort among consumer groups, governments, regulators, policymakers, academics, and researchers about the work we do to ensure a trustworthy shopping experience.