DESCRIPTION

Locations available are New York City. Grocery Ads is a rapidly growing team within Amazon Advertising whose mission is to drive outsized advertising with Amazon’s physical stores and have our advertiser customers prefer our offerings when it comes to reaching and engaging in-store shoppers, measuring impact, and achieving their advertising goals. Our primary customers are advertisers who sell products within our stores and also online. Advertisers not endemic to the stores are also our customers, and we can offer unique ways to reach customers out-of-home and in the context of their shopping activities.

In this role, you will develop greenfield advertising solutions that help advertisers reach customers in the physical world, including Amazon's owned and operated physical stores and online placements. This is a true "day one" opportunity to surprise and delight advertisers and advance the advertising industry forward.

The right candidate will possess strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and test business opportunities across a new domain. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done.

You must be able to communicate up, down, and out, to both technical and business leaders. Preference for domain expertise in digital out-of-home advertising. You must be able to successfully drive and build ad products and balance the business needs against technical constraints. You must be able to take large, complex problems and break them down into manageable components, then deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Being a self-starter, showing maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, ability to partner effectively Sales partners, analytical talent and leadership are essential to success in this role. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor and help shape our Advertising product and business.


Key job responsibilities
Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior management
Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
5+ years in program or project management or 3+ years with an MBA
Experience owning program strategy and end to end delivery
5+ years experience delivering cross functional projects or 3+ years with an MBA
Experience implementing repeatable processes and driving automation or standardization
Experience defining and executing against program requirements

A day in the life
As a Senior Tech Business Developer Grocery ad team, you will program manage the development and launch of our display ad products and offerings across multiple International market segments. You will work with local sales and business stakeholders across multiple segments to identify advertising customers interested in Grocery. To increase advertiser adoption, you will regularly demo the product, gather and channel customer feedback to the product teams. You will also develop and execute the long term strategy for supporting a growing set of advertisers, across multiple international market segments. Regularly communicate with senior management and other stakeholders on status, risks and release readiness. This is a highly visible program across multiple organizations where you will have the opportunity to have a huge impact.