Senior Business Development Manager - Alexa Connect Kit at Amazon
Senior Business Development Manager - Alexa Connect Kit Details
May 29, 2019, 8:27 a.m.
Business & Merchant Development
Alexa Voice Service
Seattle, Washington
Connect Kit team Smart Home segment
Help mold the future of the Smart Home segment with global device makers by bringing more Alexa-ready devices to customers with the Alexa Connect Kit. If you have the right blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity, you may be right for the Sr Business Development Manager role on the Alexa Connect Kit team. The Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) is a new way for device makers to connect devices to Alexa more quickly and economically without worrying about managing cloud services, writing an Alexa skill, or developing complex networking and security firmware. ACK enables device makers to make any device an Alexa-connected smart device via a hardware module and access to the ACK cloud service. This is a focused role where you will develop and drive the strategy to bring Alexa Connect Kit enabled devices to customers worldwide. You will be the “face of Alexa Connect Kit” with device makers – securing ACK project commitments, building hardware roadmaps, and driving go to
· Bachelor's degree · 5+ years of post-degree business development experience in the internet, IoT, speech recognition and/or high-tech industries · Experience negotiating embedded software agreements with chip manufacturers and OEMs.· Experience in developing new hardware with external parties · Experience working with emerging technologies, especially speech/voice · Proven ability to prospect, recruit, and manage executive level relationships · Strong presentation, sales, and negotiation skills; ability to close high value and high profile deals · Strong ownership and bias for action; ability