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Description

AWS Product Marketing is seeking an experienced technical editor to edit, manage projects, and deliver high-quality content to tell the most important Amazon Web Services (AWS) stories to customers and partners. This role works to ensure that best practices and content standards are upheld for product marketing content. This is a great opportunity to play a key role in AWS, a subsidiary of Amazon.com and a global leader in cloud computing.

In this role, you will work closely with AWS subject matter experts, product marketers, and content managers as well as with stakeholders on the larger Product Marketing team. You’ll collaborate to deliver messaging for a large, globally distributed organization.

The ideal candidate for this role will have experience editing content for highly technical audiences and the ability to drive consistency and unity across complex content deliverables. You will understand the needs of technical customers and be expected to act as a customer advocate. You will have experience editing in a corporate environment and with juggling the needs of internal and external stakeholders, style and branding guidelines, and legal requirements, among other priorities. Finally, you will have solid project management experience, strong attention to detail, the ability to quickly learn new tools and processes, and excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. For more information on AWS, please visit http://aws.amazon.com.

Key job responsibilities

• Perform all levels of edit on marketing materials, including webpages, slide decks, and other items as assigned

• Ensure correct and consistent use of AWS style, branding, service/product naming conventions, and legal and messaging requirements

• Collaborate with other technical editors, technical writers, content managers, and content creators

• Manage all aspects of the editorial process on individual editing assignments

About the team

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience editing technical content

• A degree in English, technical communication, or a related field

• Copyediting and proofreading experience

• Project management skills

• Excellent grammar and rewriting skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with substantive editing

• Experience editing in Microsoft PowerPoint

• Experience editing in content management systems, such as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)

• Experience with process development and initiative implementation

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and highly cross-functional global organization

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $64,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $137,700/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.