Description

AWS is seeking a Principal level Strategy and Business Development leader to join our team.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a visionary and strategic leader to expand our engagement across our most strategic global customers. This high-impact role as an AWS Leader will be central to growing our pan-Amazon footprint, tasked with navigating and thriving in diverse and fast-moving international landscapes. This is a unique opportunity to join a centralized business development team that manages strategic partnerships across all of Amazon. As the strategic leader, you will be responsible for leading and working across a global team to generate, manage, and execute complex and high impact partnership deals. This includes managing relationships and negotiations for partnership deals, which are unconventional in nature, need a centralized advocate, and/or have broader implications to AWS and other Amazon business units.

This role will be part of our Strategic Initiatives leadership team with high visibility at the most senior levels of AWS and Amazon. In this role, you will provide strategic oversight and make high-judgment decisions that affect the company’s direction at the CEO level, utilizing deep market insights to anticipate changes in global trends and pivot strategies swiftly and effectively. You will need to work collaboratively with internal management teams to understand relative advantages and risks, if/when major features should be included to existing roadmaps, and current trends around innovation, consolidation and customer adoption. We dive deep and provide thoughtful technical analysis, but are adaptable and action-oriented, focused on quickly gaining enough context to enable informed decision-making. Identifying and executing strategic partnerships is our primary objective.

We are seeking an innovative, creative, analytical, technical and strategic thinker, who is passionate about Amazon and AWS, and the success of our customers; someone who has extensive experience managing a complex, global business. The ideal candidate enjoys solving complex problems, works effectively with cross-functional teams and thrives in a fast-paced setting that is constantly evolving. Proving you are an effective leader through influence and negotiator is a critical part of this job. AWS Strategic Initiatives team is a small, tight-knit team that values authentic, strong willed individuals that think creatively and will proactively seek out opportunities to advance the growth initiatives of Amazon’s businesses. 10010

Key job responsibilities

Take the lead to identify, evaluate, negotiate, and manage partnerships that can involve marketing, content, commerce, and technology components.

Ability to assess technical feasibility for our AWS business.

Evaluate the economic and strategic cost-benefit of partnerships.

Lead cross-functional teams including Product, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Tax, Accounting, and senior management to execute on the relationships.

Develop best practices to foster, manage, and track opportunities.

Support the strategic objectives and interests of Amazon’s business teams on a global basis.

Capable on understanding the needs of each Amazon business, strategically formulate and negotiate the best value for the company with our most strategic customers.

About the team

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

AWS 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.

Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

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.

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 & 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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• 7+ years of professional or military experience

• 7+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience

• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level

• Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders

• Experience structuring and negotiating complex agreements and leading cross functional groups to orchestrate and successfully complete deals

• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA

• 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

• Experience in strategic business development, product management, investment banking, legal or other fields that involve commercial partnership negotiations

• Experience leading cross-functional groups to debate tradeoffs, drive alignment and make high-judgment decisions related to critical partnerships/projects

• End-to-end deal experience, including identifying, developing, and executing successful partnerships such as licensing deals, complex digital media transactions, and strategic 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

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 $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.