Corporate Strategist AWS Amazon

AWS is seeking a Principal level Strategy and Business Development leader to join our team.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a strategic leader to expand our engagement across our most strategic global customers. This highimpact role as an AWS Leader will be central to growing our panAmazon footprint tasked with navigating and thriving in diverse and fastmoving 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 unique 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 highjudgment decisions that affect the companys 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 actionoriented focused on quickly gaining enough context to enable informed decisionmaking. 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 crossfunctional teams and thrives in a fastpaced 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 tightknit team that values authentic strong willed individuals that think creatively and will proactively seek out opportunities to advance the growth initiatives of Amazons 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 costbenefit of partnerships.
Lead crossfunctional 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 Amazons 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
Why AWS

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Bachelors 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

MBA or 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 crossfunctional groups to debate tradeoffs drive alignment and make highjudgment decisions related to critical partnerships/projects
Endtoend 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
Experience structuring and negotiating complex agreements and leading cross functional groups to orchestrate and successfully complete deals or experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules

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.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $158400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $262000/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.