Senior Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Affairs at Amazon James Carney speaks to EU officials on February 1, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Airbnb exploited Jay Carney, Amazon’s top spokesperson, as the new head of policy and communications.
Carney will start working at Airbnb in September and will report to CEO Brian Chesky, the company speak on Friday. He will be in Washington, DC
Carney joined Amazon in 2015 after working as a White House press secretary President Barack Obama from 2011 to 2014. Before that, he spent 20 years as a political reporter with Time Magazine.
As Amazon’s director of communications and public policy, Carney quickly achieve prominence in company. He is part of Jeff Bezos‘S-team elite and still there when Andy Jassy took over as CEO last year. One of Carney’s main jobs is helping run Amazon’s relationship with lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
For Jassy, the move marks the latest departure at a time when the company faces a host of challenges, from soaring inflation and internal labor conflicts to regulatory struggles. established in the US and Europe. In June, Dave Clark, a 23-year Amazon veteran resignation as a retail manager. And two prominent black leaders – operations executives Dave Bozeman and Alicia Boler-Davis, senior vice president of global customer response – also announced their departure in June.
Carney oversees Amazon’s large public relations staff, which often means spearheading the company’s response to outside scrutiny, notably in the Trump administration, which is a frequent critic of Amazon. He played a central role in the company’s wretched negotiations for a second corporate headquarters in Long Island City.
“Jay has worked at the highest levels of both government and technology, serving as a strategic advisor to the President and at one of the largest technology companies in the world,” Chesky said in a statement. Father. “When you combine that with the two decades he’s spent on the ground as a journalist, he delivers a deep understanding of the needs of many stakeholders.”
In a memo sent to Amazon employees obtained by CNBC, Carney said his time at Amazon “beyond my expectations” and noted that the teams he runs are in “very good hands.” good”.
Carney wrote: “Together, you will all continue to make Amazon a company that does positive and big things for their customers, employees, and communities around the world.
CNBC also viewed a memo Jassy sent to employees announcing Carney’s departure. In the note, he told employees the company would “immediately begin looking for” Carney’s replacement.
Here is Jassy’s note:
I want to let you know that Jay Carney, who has been running Global Corporate Affairs for the past seven years, decided to leave Amazon at the end of August to pursue other opportunities.
Since joining the company in 2015, Jay has scaled up and led the Public Policy and Public Relations team across all of our businesses and geographies with the overarching goal of ensuring ensuring that policymakers, reporters, and customers are properly informed about Amazon’s contributions to economic growth, creative work, innovation, and sustainability – and its focus Our unmatched customer base. Over the years, Jay has regularly represented Amazon in meetings with heads of state and government, as well as other senior leaders around the world. He also founded and oversaw Amazon in the Community, the first company-wide organization dedicated to community engagement and philanthropy. Jay came to Amazon after serving five and a half years in the Obama White House; and before that, worked as a journalist for more than two decades. Join me in thanking Jay for his many important accomplishments on behalf of Amazon customers and employees, for helping us build a strong set of capabilities in Public Policy and PR, and wish him success in his future endeavors.
We will start looking for Jay’s replacement immediately. In the interim, Brian Huseman, Susan Pointer and Michael Punke will report to David Zapolsky, and Drew Herdener will report to me.
Andy
