The Amazon Digital Devices and Services team is seeking an innovative, results-oriented, customer-centric team player to help negotiate and execute new partnerships with hardware manufacturers. These partnerships will enable a wide variety of companies to provide Echo like functionality, using the Alexa Voice Service, in their products. This individual is an important team member, accelerating growth of the Alexa ecosystem and executing new partnerships for Amazon. The ideal candidate has solid technical expertise as well as sound business judgment with a track record of successful negotiations and relationship management in an international setting. Some of the key job functions of this position are: · · Serve as a key member of the Digital Devices and Services Business Development team to define and deliver the strategy to partner with third party companies to build Alexa Voice Service functionality into their products and services. · · Manage both executive and working level relationships
· 8+ years of post-degree business development experience in the internet, IoT, speech recognition and/or high-tech industries · · Experience negotiating embedded software agreements with OEMs · · Bachelor's degreeAbility to think strategically and creatively using sound business judgment · Experience driving results with international partners · · Strong negotiation skills · · Strong project management skills and experience working with cross-functional teams · · Outstanding verbal and written communications skills. · · Proven leadership, problem solving and strong attention to detail · · Ability