Communications Manager, Aws Asean

Minimum of 12 years of public relations experience
- Fluent written and verbal English
- Experience working directly with customers, and developing their stories
- Proven experience managing large projects across multiple countries, including successful delivery of large-scale corporate communications campaigns
- Extensive experience working with media, industry analysts, and other corporate influencers
- Experience with ASEAN technology media

Job summary
Would you like to be part of a communications team that is building awareness about how cloud technology is helping transform organizations across ASEAN? Are you passionate about the rapid change technology enables, and the positive impact it is having on people and the world around us? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading provider of cloud computing services, providing IT infrastructure offerings ranging from on-demand compute capacity to storage, content delivery, and database services, to machine learning, Internet of Things, serverless technologies, and more. The AWS Public Relations (PR) team is at the forefront of shaping communications around the most advanced technologies on the planet and helping customers and partners maximize the benefits of cloud computing.

AWS seeks a self-motivated, well-connected, and experienced public relations professional to lead AWS communications in Thailand and Vietnam. This role will help to drive a breadth communications campaign, telling the AWS story to a diverse audience including technology leaders and practitioners, business leaders, policy-makers and government officials, and the general public, through the core pillars of innovation, economic development, and social impact, with the themes of customer obsession, technical leadership, pace of innovation, and breadth of services, which are central to our story.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop and execute effective communications strategies for AWS in Thailand and Vietnam through a sustained, strategic, program that supports local business growth
- Create compelling content with customers and partners to generate powerful stories about the transformational impact of cloud technology in ASEAN
- Write and edit press releases, pitches, PR plans, and related materials
- Foster strong relationships internally with customers/partner and press, as well as externally with business stakeholders, and regional and global team members
- Innovate launch processes for services and features locally, in alignment with a dynamic, pioneering cloud business, with a focus on breadth and impact.
- Work with Public Policy teams to lead and respond to complex regulatory, business, and technology issues.
- Develop and successfully manage relationships with key media, influencers such as technology bloggers, and AWS customers
- Provide issues management counsel, and strategic advice to the business to help maintain AWS’s reputation as a good corporate citizen in ASEAN
- Amplify marketing events and initiatives, including AWS Summit and AWS re: Invent, with media relations programs including news announcements, one-on-one engagements with AWS executives, customers, and partners; and media education

About the team
The ASEAN PR team is responsible for the local launch of new AWS services and infrastructure, customer features, programs, and partnerships in a way that maximizes positive awareness locally. It also includes identifying and engaging with customers using AWS services successfully, to share their stories in the media.
- Strong interpersonal and writing skills
- Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and organizational skills, while also staying on top of tactical execution
- Comfortable working on their own to deliver high quality results
- Exhibits excellent business judgment
- Ensures integrated communications approach, considering all audiences and communications channels
- Expects and requires innovation of themselves and those around them; Is action and results oriented
- Knowledge of Thai, Vietnamese, and other ASEAN languages would be an advantage