Account Executive, Amazon

Local Ads, WW Emerging Business

$80.2-171.5k

Salesforce
Mid level
Los Angeles

Office located in Culver City, CA

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Open for applications

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

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Open for applications

$80.2-171.5k

Salesforce
Mid level
Los Angeles

Office located in Culver City, CA

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • Our environment is fast-paced, and requires someone who is highly enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, flexible, detail-oriented, analytical, and comfortable working with multiple teams across multiple locales
  • You enjoy solving complex problems, works effectively with cross-functional teams and thrives in a fast-paced setting that is constantly evolving
  • 3+ years of B2B advertising sales experience with regional based advertisers
  • Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
  • Experience in account management and selling of digital media

Desirable

  • Experience consistently closing sales and generating revenue
  • Experience of high level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management

What the job involves

  • This is a rare opportunity to join a start-up business within Amazon Ads and play a strategic role in building the future of Local Ads
  • This is a key role in our recently formed Local Ads team
  • This individual will own some of our high impact local relationships as we create a brand new business and revenue stream for Amazon Ads
  • You will be joining a fast growing, quickly evolving organization, where the ability to wear many hats and help across projects will be crucial
  • You are expected to inspire, lead, think and act both strategically and tactically for your customers, using your strong business acumen and experience selling digital advertising solutions to help your partners grow and scale revenue
  • Own the quota of your assigned local BoB and manage it in Salesforce
  • Build relationships across buying, planning, account and executive teams by establishing expertise to act as a strategic partner, providing insights and relaying relevant guidance to the customer to meet shared objectives
  • * Conduct virtual and in-person meetings demonstrating subject matter expertise and a point of view on industry and/or specific advertising solutions, with deep knowledge of your customer’s vision and objectives
  • Be a strategic leader who creates future value for Amazon with local agencies, while delivering immediate results
  • Determine the right goals, inform decisions, and help design scalable, long-term solutions that meet shared objectives
  • Leverage an entrepreneurial mindset to solve complex problems, with solutions tailored for each customer and made as simple as possible
  • Assess, develop, and advise managers and/or senior leaders on overall business strategy
  • Utilize customer input to drive innovation creating ease of execution for our partners by improving policies, process and products
  • Conduct virtual and in-person meetings demonstrating subject matter expertise and a point of view on industry and/or specific advertising solutions, with deep knowledge of your customer’s vision and objectives
  • * Identify mechanisms to evolve and simplify the team’s practices while ensuring customer short- and long-term expectations are met
  • * Work with marketing and product teams to develop local specific strategies and respective narratives for local digital media advertising growth
  • * Take ownership of the pre and post-sale process ensuring we exceed customer expectations and deliver results

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Leadership

Jeff Bezos

(Founder & Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO)

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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