Executive Speechwriter, ADX Events and Creative
A good script can inspire, galvanize, and build trust. It can engage the disengaged and show how a challenge became an opportunity. Behind every one of these scripts, is a scriptwriter. An expert storyteller who is endlessly curious and creative. The ADX Events and Creative team is in search of a dynamic, experienced writer with strong executive presence who is a strategic partner to senior leaders, helping them bring to life critical business narratives that empower small business owners and communicate the vision of Amazon’s Worldwide Operations team across our suite of global events. This individual must have a passion for words but also in diving deep and understanding the business behind the storyline. This empowers them understand how the dots connect and opportunities to uplevel the narrative with data and anecdotes. They look at a script as part of the holistic narrative being driven by an event and find opportunities to reinforce core messages and connect dots between across programmatic updates and are a problem solver who understands how to surface and evaluate tradeoffs to find common ground.
Key job responsibilities
• Ghostwrite engaging short and long form scripts for senior Amazon leaders that bring to life critical business narratives, inspire audiences, and deliver educational moments.
• Polish scripts, abstracts, and/or host remarks to improve overall storytelling and generate red threads between narratives (where applicable).
• Work with dozens of stakeholders to determine the right data and anecdotes to surface to build an argument and/or showcase the vision of a business line
• Dives deep to understand the business they are writing for to make recommendations on how to position information and understand what will resonate with the audience
• Collaborate with creative teams and agencies on ideas to bring written concepts to life visually on screen and on stage.
• Manage dozens of stakeholders to help understand business priorities and builds them into a holistic narrative
• Partner closely with event content strategist to ensure they understand the goals and messages of an event and how to leverage the script to bring those concepts to life a most compelling way
• Consult with internal team members and stakeholders about best practices and ideas for how to approach complex narratives and story lines
About the team
The Transportation Partner Experience team builds innovative and engaging community-focused products for internal and external Amazon partners, including the Delivery Service Partner community. Small business are critical to many aspects of Amazon’s ecosystem and TPX helps these partners be successful by building communities that connect, inform, and inspire the ecosystem of entrepreneurs and business owners who work in harmony with us to improve delivery flexibility, speed and reliability for our customers.