Director, Disclosure Strategy, WW Sustainability

Amazon is seeking a Director for Disclosure Strategy within its Worldwide Sustainability team in Arlington, VA. This role involves leading initiatives to enhance Amazon's environmental and social responsibility, requiring strong leadership, communication skills, and a deep understanding of sustainability. The candidate will manage non-regulatory disclosures and collaborate with various stakeholders to effectively convey sustainability efforts. The position emphasizes creativity, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to simplify complex concepts.
Description

Join us as part of Amazon's Worldwide Sustainability team, where you’ll make a direct impact on initiatives aimed at advancing Amazon’s global environmental and social responsibility strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

The Worldwide Sustainability organization utilizes Amazon’s scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company – and planet. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally, and drive solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable.

The Worldwide Sustainability Disclosure Strategy Team is guided by our vision to establish Amazon as the most recognizable and respected global sustainability leader. This job requires a solid understanding of the roles of business and society, as well as the sustainability landscape.

The candidate will demonstrate exceptional judgment and curiosity and will be committed to continually improving their knowledge about Amazon’s business and our intersection with our commitment to The Climate Pledge.

The Worldwide Sustainability Disclosure Strategy Team is seeking a Director with extensive experience managing teams, and with the ability to understand and translate complicated subject matter, drive through ambiguity, and make high judgement decisions.

This candidate will lead a program and team that will build and scale a strategic approach to non-regulatory disclosure, including non-regulatory reporting, sustainability ratings and rankings, and externalization of the work, results and impact across the company, in partnership with critical stakeholders.

We’re looking for an excellent writer, big thinker and strong team leader, who can influence and maintain enterprise-wide strategy and execution. The role requires meticulous attention to detail, a collaborative working style, and ability to articulate the most complex technical concepts in terms that make sense to customers, key stakeholders and the public.

Key job responsibilities
• Influence and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to continually inspect, grow and drive impact through non-regulatory disclosures
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build mechanisms for two-way communication and programmatic process improvements
• Take a customer obsessed approach to delivering important and impactful disclosures across a variety of mediums: annual reports, ratings and rankings strategy, written and visual storytelling, presentations and other forms of communication
• Develop and operationalize a program that ensures stakeholders are coordinated in their efforts to communicate Worldwide Sustainability’s most important messages
• Employ creativity to drive program awareness, generate excitement and get stakeholders to take necessary action
• Develop robust strategies that utilize a variety of external and internal channels

About The Team

About the Team

Diverse Experiences: World Wide Sustainability (WWS) values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.

Inclusive Team Culture: It is 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.

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.

Mentorship and Career Growth: We have a career path for you no matter what stage you’re in when you start here. 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
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Sustainability, or a related field
• 15+ years’ experience in communications-related field
• 10+ years’ experience managing a high performing, cross-functional team
• 10+ years’ experience working with products and tools including websites, email programs, content management systems and mobile apps

Preferred Qualifications
• Sustainability, climate, environmental and/or social responsibility expertise
• Excellent time management, resource management, and planning skills
• Superior oral and written communication skills
• Passion for process and an innate attention to detail
• Experience creating content for a variety of media – emails, videos, presentations, and graphics
• Experience facilitating agreement among multiple senior stakeholders with competing priorities
• Ability to pull and analyze data from various sources of information
• Willingness to travel and ability to work independently and autonomously
• Experience working in a fast-paced, highly cross-functional 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: 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 reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $213,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $318,000/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.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2927437