Job Information
Amazon Principal, Tech Business Dev., Creators in New York, New York
Description
The Creators team goal is to make Amazon the Earth’s most desired destination for commerce influencers, associates (publishers, bloggers, and more) and their content. We are a team of innovators that tackle difficult problems, and are laser-focused on building and enhancing products and experiences that drive growth for Creators. We own the Creator product suite across Amazon to ensure a cohesive experience, experiment with and align compensation structures, and launch features that reinforce feelings of achievement for Creators in addition to monetary compensation. We seek to strengthen creators’ sense of community, fandom, credibility, and provide positive feedback loops. Our BD team on Creators directly collaborates with strategic customers to build new, industry-specific partnership opportunities that directly impact and transform the way our Creators can partner, create, and earn from us at scale.
Key job responsibilities
The Principal, Tech Business Development will own the end to end strategy for our Managed Influencer Program owns direct relationships with our head cohort of influencers in the Amazon Influencer Program, and develops and executes our creator acquisition strategy, facilitates compensation innovation and experiments, and offers content inspiration and guidance to help creators build their business with Amazon. This leader will represent our managed influencers in strategic conversations with Creators product leadership, engineering teams, Corp BD, marketing, and other internal stakeholder teams to design, develop, and deliver transformative, products and partnerships that meet the needs of our Creators. They are able to both set and execute a vision, and build mechanisms to consistently iterate, evaluate, and evolve our strategy in an ever-changing environment for creators as it pertains to content development, formats, new distribution channels, and monetization. The Principal, Tech Business development will evaluate ambiguous partnership opportunities, lead end-to-end delivery of managed influencer programs, foster productive customer relationships, drive business outcomes, and serve as an overall business lead for the company in the influencer space (US and WW). This person will be responsible for ensuring positive, productive business relationships with key strategic partners, internally and externally, to enable opportunities for growth for our managed influencers.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree
7+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
7+ years of professional or military experience
Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
Experience collaborating effectively with content creators and social media influencers
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop high performing teams
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.