Principal, Strategic Executive Internal Communications, Amazon Customer Service

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.

• 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 vide 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

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.

The Amazon Customer Service Strategic Enablement team serves as a trusted communications partner to CS' most senior leaders globally. Sitting within the…