Principal Strategic Initiatives Special Projects
Principal Strategic Initiatives Special Projects
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01-05-2025
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$ 161900 - 279900
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1 Vacancy
Posted on :
01-05-2025
Job Description
Visionaries wanted! Are you an entrepreneur A dreamer A builder This role is on an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the companys Think Big leadership principle to the limit. We focus on creating new businesses with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If youre interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world this is the team for you.
At Amazon we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employeeled affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local regional and global. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.
Our team highly values worklife balance mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.
Job Summary
We are recruiting talent to play a key role in identifying and building new businesses at Amazon. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fastpaced startup like environment and want to invent the future for Amazon current and future customers. Working backwards from customers you seek to understand key customer pain points map potentially nonintuitive solutions to those needs and leverage Amazons capabilities and resources to launch and scale new businesses. In this role you are responsible for writing business reports new business proposals and evaluating reports and proposals at a high cadence. This is a highvisibility role in which you pitch new businesses to senior leadership for funding. After achieving funding you leverage Amazons resources to building new businesses.
You have experience building a startup from zerotoone (ideally having achieved revenue) and experience working within or evaluating new areas startups and investment opportunities. You have an insatiable appetite to learn new areas a willingness to dive deep into details and are quantitative. You are able to credibly engage stakeholders investors subject matter experts and potential customers to form datadriven perspectives on businesses opportunities and an ability to stay focused and motivated in an ambiguous highlydynamic environment. In additional to identifying and diving into innovative technologies you are comfortable quantifying the business opportunity of ideas. You are adept at distilling complex subjects into easy to understand actionable written artifacts based on data. Finally you are willing and able to relocate to Seattle to work with a team in person in the near term. Still interested Read on wed love to speak with you about this incredible opportunity!
NOTE: This role is based in Seattle Washington and requires you to be physically in the office collaborating with your teammates. We are unable to consider remote/hybrid candidates.
Key job responsibilities
Our team at Amazon is recruiting a highlyversatile candidate to contribute to identifying opportunities for Amazon to build a large sustainable business.
In this role you:
Work independently within a small team to identify and qualify promising opportunities for new Amazon businesses.
Perform extensive firstperson research independently and with the other members of a team.
Distill learnings from your internal and external research into clearlywritten idea proposals for discussions and review.
Pitch rigorous business proposals to leadership for funding.
Postfunding build a team and grow launch and scale a new business.
A day in the life
Over time your role evolves from research and exploration as an individual contributor to implementation. Initially you are tasked with bringing wellformed written proposals to the team for review. Once weve landed on a problem space and identified a solution that has Amazonscale potential you are responsible for building the working backwards document that outlines the opportunity and details the resources required to build it.
About the team
Using Amazons wellknown process of working backwards from the customer the Special Projects team looks across a wide range of industries and topics to develop ideas that Amazon hasnt pursued yet. The Special Projects team uses Amazons six critical questions to decide which big ideas to develop:
the proposed solution make peoples lives better We are inclined toward areas that yield widespread positive impact.
many people does it impact We seek areas that have the potential to impact at least 1 of the global population.
the business be large enough to move the needle for Amazon We focus on opportunities that can grow into large sustainable businesses.
the problem in an area wellserved by others We seek to solve unmet needs.
our approach to solving the customers problem differentiated We develop solutions that are differentiated and often nonintuitive.
should Amazon do this We are inclined toward solutions that (in part) leverage our internal expertise.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering the Physical Sciences or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience is required
10 years of work experience including at least 5 years of building and selling new products to customers
Business management and product development experience including experience working directly with engineers and technical teams to define and execute new products
Experience leading scientific and/or engineering projects that include making critical decisions related to product strategy
MBA MS PhD or advanced degree
Excellent business instincts: you obsess about how to deliver new sustainable businesses on a global scale
Experience in rapidly developing scaling up and transitioning of ideas into new businesses
Demonstrated ability to dive into new areas (often technical) and quickly formulate a point of view of customer pain points and untapped business opportunities
Comfort diving into financial plans to understand the costs and business drivers
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to represent and advocate for highly complex business or technical concepts with executive leadership
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $161900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279900/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.
At Amazon we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employeeled affinity groups reaching 40000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local regional and global. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.
Our team highly values worklife balance mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.
Job Summary
We are recruiting talent to play a key role in identifying and building new businesses at Amazon. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fastpaced startup like environment and want to invent the future for Amazon current and future customers. Working backwards from customers you seek to understand key customer pain points map potentially nonintuitive solutions to those needs and leverage Amazons capabilities and resources to launch and scale new businesses. In this role you are responsible for writing business reports new business proposals and evaluating reports and proposals at a high cadence. This is a highvisibility role in which you pitch new businesses to senior leadership for funding. After achieving funding you leverage Amazons resources to building new businesses.
You have experience building a startup from zerotoone (ideally having achieved revenue) and experience working within or evaluating new areas startups and investment opportunities. You have an insatiable appetite to learn new areas a willingness to dive deep into details and are quantitative. You are able to credibly engage stakeholders investors subject matter experts and potential customers to form datadriven perspectives on businesses opportunities and an ability to stay focused and motivated in an ambiguous highlydynamic environment. In additional to identifying and diving into innovative technologies you are comfortable quantifying the business opportunity of ideas. You are adept at distilling complex subjects into easy to understand actionable written artifacts based on data. Finally you are willing and able to relocate to Seattle to work with a team in person in the near term. Still interested Read on wed love to speak with you about this incredible opportunity!
NOTE: This role is based in Seattle Washington and requires you to be physically in the office collaborating with your teammates. We are unable to consider remote/hybrid candidates.
Key job responsibilities
Our team at Amazon is recruiting a highlyversatile candidate to contribute to identifying opportunities for Amazon to build a large sustainable business.
In this role you:
Work independently within a small team to identify and qualify promising opportunities for new Amazon businesses.
Perform extensive firstperson research independently and with the other members of a team.
Distill learnings from your internal and external research into clearlywritten idea proposals for discussions and review.
Pitch rigorous business proposals to leadership for funding.
Postfunding build a team and grow launch and scale a new business.
A day in the life
Over time your role evolves from research and exploration as an individual contributor to implementation. Initially you are tasked with bringing wellformed written proposals to the team for review. Once weve landed on a problem space and identified a solution that has Amazonscale potential you are responsible for building the working backwards document that outlines the opportunity and details the resources required to build it.
About the team
Using Amazons wellknown process of working backwards from the customer the Special Projects team looks across a wide range of industries and topics to develop ideas that Amazon hasnt pursued yet. The Special Projects team uses Amazons six critical questions to decide which big ideas to develop:
the proposed solution make peoples lives better We are inclined toward areas that yield widespread positive impact.
many people does it impact We seek areas that have the potential to impact at least 1 of the global population.
the business be large enough to move the needle for Amazon We focus on opportunities that can grow into large sustainable businesses.
the problem in an area wellserved by others We seek to solve unmet needs.
our approach to solving the customers problem differentiated We develop solutions that are differentiated and often nonintuitive.
should Amazon do this We are inclined toward solutions that (in part) leverage our internal expertise.
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering the Physical Sciences or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience is required
10 years of work experience including at least 5 years of building and selling new products to customers
Business management and product development experience including experience working directly with engineers and technical teams to define and execute new products
Experience leading scientific and/or engineering projects that include making critical decisions related to product strategy
MBA MS PhD or advanced degree
Excellent business instincts: you obsess about how to deliver new sustainable businesses on a global scale
Experience in rapidly developing scaling up and transitioning of ideas into new businesses
Demonstrated ability to dive into new areas (often technical) and quickly formulate a point of view of customer pain points and untapped business opportunities
Comfort diving into financial plans to understand the costs and business drivers
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to represent and advocate for highly complex business or technical concepts with executive leadership
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $161900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279900/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.
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