Principal, Tech Business Development, Amazon Retail Ad Service

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Description

Amazon Retail Ad Service is seeking a professional to join the leadership team to focus on leading strategic deals, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy. This role will work closely with the Amazon Retail Ad Service product and leadership team, Amazon Ads senior management, cross business-unit BD teams, and other corporate functions to drive unique partnership opportunities. The candidate will be part of a team that is responsible for externalizing Amazon Ads technology for third-party retailers. This role is responsible for developing and executing high impact, and at times complex, partnerships, and includes managing relationships and negotiations for customer and partnership deals which have long-term implications for Amazon. This position offers an opportunity to innovate and bring to life first-in-category initiatives and build cross functional relationships inside one of the world's most innovative, customer-centric companies.

We are seeking an innovative, entrepreneurial, creative, analytical, technical, and strategic thinker, who wants to build transformative partnerships to support our ongoing innovations and growth. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who enjoys solving complex problems, works effectively with cross-functional counterparts and thrives in a fast-paced setting that is constantly evolving. Proving you have high judgement, strong capabilities to earn trust, and are comfortable working in ambiguous, highly-visible situations is critical for this position.

Key job responsibilities

• Own strategic customer relationships and negotiations.
• Own the executive relationships with strategically important customer and partner companies in the sector; institute regular mechanisms to cultivate trust and drive alignment with Amazon's priorities. Provide executive sponsorship when needed for other BD efforts and act as the executive escalation management resource for Amazon leaders.
• Develop and align the go-to-market strategy and goals/planning for Amazon Retail Ad Service.
• Develop scalable insight-driven narratives with sound recommendations.
• Develop a durable strategic framework to constantly evaluate new ideas based on business potential, opportunity size and strategic fit.
• Develop innovative commercial strategies and partnership ideas that drive material business impact for the business.
• Influence senior commercial, technical and product stakeholders to drive alignment around new ideas and initiatives, debate tradeoffs and make high-judgment decisions related to critical partnerships and cross product initiatives
• Work with cross-functional teams including Product, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and senior management to execute on the relationships.
• Systems thinker who understands the commercial workflows and product/technical frameworks relevant to the sector.
• End-to-end deal experience; structuring and negotiating complex partnership agreements such as advertising deals, complex digital media transactions, and strategic ad technology relationships.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to analyze income, balance sheet and cash flow statements. Can construct an operating P&L, model deals, and articulate cost/benefit analyses.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 7 years of professional or military experience
• 6 years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a founder or executive focused on related segments, or as a practice leader or business unit owner
• Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations
• MBA
• Experience with retail, retail media, and/or ad-tech
  
  

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $158,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $262,000/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.