Global Head of Community Development Planning Global Sustainable Development

The optimal candidate is an experienced business partner who excels in an entrepreneurial environment building trust quickly. They have a strong mastery of the range of challenges and scope within a globallymatrixed environment. They have vision strong leadership and communication skills and are comfortable with CSuite executives. This person must be able to dive deep and deliver on behalf of the customer while dealing with ambiguity.

Key job responsibilities
Leverage professional relationships and develop new strategic contacts to generate business opportunities with potential real estate partners private sellers brokers investment bankers owners developers and consultants.
Identify anticipate communicate and capitalize on public policy strategic pillars to drive community planning priorities in concert with Portfolio Optimization and Transactions team.
Develop comprehensive knowledge of assets strategy underwriting criteria processes and systems to optimize site selection process and planning.
Drive strategic initiatives related to complex entitlement and zoning projects focused on site plan design entitlement and land use within local municipalities for both existing high profile development projects and new opportunities to improve timelines and .
Forge and maintain deep Customer relationships which will help uncover opportunities in collaboration with Legal Public Policy/Econ Dev etc.
Keep a pulse on external market forces and industry leader analysis including customer dynamics to inform strategy development; identify and provide solutions for any areas of misalignment.
Collaborate across the organization including the executive leadership team and key stakeholders to identify key strategic challenges and opportunities linked to market dynamics or customer changes product performance competitive intelligence and business needs.


A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location the number of regularly scheduled hours you work length of employment and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular fulltime
employees include:

1. Medical Dental and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan


Bachelors degree
10 years experience in development leasing community engagement or related field
Experience leading large projects and/or programs in a matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders or in a highgrowth environment
Experience delivering cross functional projects working cross functionally with tech and nontech teams.
Excellent writing skills and proven ability to synthesize complex ideas into wellconstructed documents


Ability to drive direct and monitor strategic initiatives prioritizing the most critical challenges to business success
Ability to navigate ambiguous situation to reduce business risk
Ability to find creative approaches to defining problems and executing pragmatic and strategic solutions
Ability to effectivey communicate strategy to all levels and support functional teams to align outcomes to corporate strategy
Ability to identify key metrics and milestones to measure progress and performance against corporate strategy


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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $159200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $275300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.