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Principal Technical Business Development, CloudOps

Amazon.com Inc
  • Herndon, VA
    1 day ago

    Job Description

    Are you ready to shape the future of how Amazon partners with some of the world"s most influential companies? We"re looking for a Principal Technical Business Development leader to own and drive our most complex, high-impact business opportunities from strategy through execution. In this role, you will work directly with C-level executives at major partners, define new business models, and build long-term strategic relationships that unlock growth across Amazon. You will operate with significant autonomy, tackling ambiguous challenges where the strategy has not yet been written. If you thrive on turning big ideas into measurable business outcomes and want to influence product direction, organizational priorities, and cross-company initiatives, this is the role for you.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own the most complex and largest business opportunities end-to-end, developing and executing strategies that drive broad customer, business, and cross-organizational impact.
    • Build and maintain strategic relationships with external partners up through the C-level, negotiating deals that optimize for long-term sustainability rather than short-term gains.
    • Identify, develop, and manage a pipeline of internal and external opportunities, collaborating cross-functionally with business development and product counterparts to unlock partner value across Amazon.
    • Represent complex decisions and trade-offs clearly in writing and verbally to senior leadership through the SVP level, owning long-term strategic planning documents and reporting on program status through data-driven mechanisms.
    • Hire, mentor, and develop team members while proposing big-idea business opportunities with significant complexity and articulating rationale for investment or disinvestment over a 3-to-5-year horizon.

    A day in the life

    You might start your morning reviewing customer engagement metrics and preparing a business review for senior leadership, then shift to a call with a C-level executive at a strategic partner to align on a joint initiative. After lunch, you could be working with product and engineering teams to translate partner feedback into roadmap priorities, followed by mentoring a team member on deal strategy. Your work spans from high-level strategic planning to diving into the details when an escalation requires your expertise.

    About the team

    Our team sits at the intersection of technology and business strategy at Amazon, working to build partnerships that create lasting value for our customers and partners alike. We operate in a collaborative, fast-paced environment where creative problem-solving and independent thinking are essential. Our focus in the coming years is on identifying and scaling transformative business opportunities, and you will play a central role in defining that direction. If you are energized by working across organizations, influencing product strategy, and making an impact that extends well beyond your immediate team, we would love to hear from you.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationHerndon, VA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Alliance/Partner Managementunmatched
    • Business Developmentunmatched
    • Business Modelunmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • C-Level Managementunmatched
    • Channel Strategiesunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Divingunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • Metricsunmatched
    • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Product Engineeringunmatched
    • Product Strategyunmatched
    • Sales Pipelineunmatched
    • Strategic Planningunmatched
    • Sustainabilityunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Technical Strategyunmatched

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