“The Public Policy Intern will join a growing, dynamic team and be able to immediately enhance Amazon’s advocacy on a broad range of public policy issues. Like our business interests, our policy issues are broad, forward-thinking, and driven by what is best for our customers.
Working with the entire US public policy team, the Public Policy Intern will help develop Amazon positions on issues, research policy issues, and represent the company at meetings.
The Public Policy Intern will work collaboratively with the team to ensure alignment between business priorities and public policy goals.
The Public Policy Intern will assess and communicate potential government activities back to the public policy team, develop mitigation or enhancement strategies and positions, and help with external advocacy efforts, outreach programs, and key initiatives in concert with business objectives.
The position is based in Washington, DC.
Educational Requirements:
Ongoing undergraduate or graduate study is required.
Basic Qualifications:
- A keen working understanding of the legislative and regulatory policy process and the technology industry. Strong skills in research and using spoken and written rhetoric to persuade and inform.
- Focus and Deliverables:
- Work collaboratively and transparently with the US Public Policy team and within the Corporate Affairs team to ensure alignment between core business priorities and public policy goals.
- Anticipate challenges/obstacles our business could face as the public policy landscape evolves.
- Ensure policymaker awareness of Amazon’s business model. Help coordinate external advocacy efforts, outreach programs, and initiatives in concert with business objectives.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:
- Highly effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills; demonstrated ability to effectively and comfortably interact at all corporate and political levels. You can create factual, relevant and easily understandable talking points and other messaging, and you can persuasively deliver it to relevant audiences. You can interject your point intelligently, concisely, and in a friendly way.
- Maintain highest personal levels of ethical conduct, confidentiality, and integrity, with strongest professional reputation in the industry.
- Self-starter who can take general direction and produce specific results.
- Ability to identify and understand key technical aspects pertaining to corporate operations in legislative and regulatory proposals, understand business implications, and synthesize policy documents for internal and external customers. You can think critically, process data from multiple sources, forecast potential scenarios, prioritize based on probability and desired outcome, and recommend a best course of action.
- Ability to influence, negotiate with, and persuade others is required. Must be flexible and demonstrate strong judgment / decision-making skills, and political acumen. You can intelligently build a course of action, analyze trade-offs, and make recommendations even in ambiguous situations.
Personal Qualities:
Professional traits that are not unique to this position, but necessary for Amazon leaders:
- · Exhibits excellent judgment
- · Hires great people. Develops great people.
- · Has relentlessly high standards
- · Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution
- · Expects and requires innovation of her/his team
- · Thinks big and has convictions
- · Is action and results oriented
- · Is highly analytical and structured
- · Has the ability to inspire passion in others
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
A keen working understanding of the legislative and regulatory policy process and the technology industry. Strong skills in research and using spoken and written rhetoric to persuade and inform.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications:
· Highly effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills; demonstrated ability to effectively and comfortably interact at all corporate and political levels. You can create factual, relevant and easily understandable talking points and other messaging, and you can persuasively deliver it to relevant audiences. You can interject your point intelligently, concisely, and in a friendly way.
- Maintain highest personal levels of ethical conduct, confidentiality, and integrity, with strongest professional reputation in the industry.
- Self-starter who can take general direction and produce specific results.
- Ability to identify and understand key technical aspects pertaining to corporate operations in legislative and regulatory proposals, understand business implications, and synthesize policy documents for internal and external customers. You can think critically, process data from multiple sources, forecast potential scenarios, prioritize based on probability and desired outcome, and recommend a best course of action.
- Ability to influence, negotiate with, and persuade others is required. Must be flexible and demonstrate strong judgment / decision-making skills, and political acumen. You can intelligently build a course of action, analyze trade-offs, and make recommendations even in ambiguous situations.
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