Sr. Strategist, Vertical Marketing, Hospitality, Strategic Agency and Advertiser Marketing; SAAM

Description

Are you ready to transform how businesses connect with customers? At Amazon Ads, we're not just selling advertising, we're crafting full-funnel growth strategies that empower brands to reach their full potential. We believe that breakthrough advertising happens when deep understanding meets innovative technology. Our team is dedicated to developing innovative marketing solutions, providing actionable insights and opportunities for advertisers, and partnering with agencies and tech innovators to drive mutually beneficial growth.

To accelerate the next phase of Amazon Ads development, we're committed to transforming the depth, scale, and ambition of our partnerships across a diverse landscape of advertisers, agencies and tech innovators. The Growth Marketing team within Amazon Ads builds partnerships across the advertising landscape to drive innovation and growth for all brands, including those that do not sell on  We do this by developing bespoke marketing programs that foster growth for advertisers, partners, and Amazon Ads.

To further our mission, we're seeking a Senior Strategist of Hospitality Vertical Marketing who excels in driving strategic partnerships, unlocking new growth opportunities, and shaping the future of digital advertising. If you're passionate about revolutionizing the advertising industry and have the skills to match, we want you on our team.

• Develop and own the vertical strategy across 1:1 or 1: few programs for strategic hospitality accounts
• Build joint go-to-market plans with sales, marketing, partner, and product teams to support growth across accounts
• Drive personalized, bespoke marketing tactics to engage multiple decision-makers across target accounts
• Lead integrated campaigns across digital, events, content, and executive engagement tailored to specific accounts or partners
• Collaborate cross-functionally with lifecycle marketing, content, product marketing, sales, and partner teams to ensure consistent and personalized execution
• Creation of custom content, sales enablement materials, and partner co-marketing assets
• Track and measure account engagement, influence on pipeline/revenue, and campaign ROI
• Use insights to refine targeting, messaging, and tactics
• Serve as a voice of key accounts internally to inform product, messaging, and experience
  - Provide regular updates to stakeholders and partners on campaign progress, results, and key insights

• Bachelor's degree, or BS degree
• 7+ years of driving compelling creative strategy and execution at an agency or in-house creative team experience

• Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research and marketing teams to develop strategy and consumer insights that drive compelling creative executions
• Experience leading creative development of innovative creative from concept to delivery
• Experience managing creative (internal team of designers, copywriters, external agencies and freelancers)
• Experience presenting creative concepts effectively to senior executives
• Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
• 4-5 years experience working with brands/in the hospitality vertical
  - Experience in marketing to enterprise brands within a technology, advertising, or SaaS environment
• Experience managing marketing programs across time zones, regions, and global cross-functional teams
  - Experience with project management and CRM tools like Workfront, Airtable and Salesforce

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

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 Company's…