Sr. Tech Bus Dev, Academic Research Initiatives
About the Role
The Sr. Tech Business Development role in the Amazon Research Initiatives (ARI) team is responsible for driving mechanisms that connect Amazon's mid to long-term scientific areas with potential academic research solutions. This position focuses on understanding business needs to drive research engagements with leading research institutions across the world and to discover research ideas to bring back into Amazon to drive innovation.
About the Team
Amazon's Academic Research Initiatives (ARI) team's mission is to make Amazon a place where every transformative idea from academia is efficiently discovered, evaluated, and disseminated to accelerate innovation on behalf of our customers. ARI is an academic research investment management team that sources research proposals from top global universities, matches promising ideas with Amazon business funders, manages research portfolios, diffuses learnings across Amazon to maximize learning impact, and disrupts once salient technology trends emerge. We provide guardrails to avoid investment waste and connect leaders with similar research interests to amplify their work. Businesses that opt into the ARI model can expect an academic investment strategy that continuously aligns their long-term innovation needs with strategy execution, measurement, and iteration, and tie in to Amazon's broader technical community.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Drive mechanisms that connect Amazon's mid to long-term scientific areas with potential academic research solutions
- Understand business needs to drive research engagements with leading research institutions across the world
- Discover research ideas to bring back into Amazon to drive innovation
- Identify strategic opportunities and evaluate academic research solutions
- Establish processes to measure ongoing investments
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- 5+ years of professional or military experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- 5+ years of Information Technology (IT) experience
- 5+ years of relevant work in driving academic research in industry or at a university
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience translating technical aspects of analysis and metrics into actionable insights for the advertiser and both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Venture or Corp Business Development experience
Pay
- USA, CA, San Francisco: $162,700.00 - $220,200.00 USD annually
- USA, MA, Boston: $147,900.00 - $200,100.00 USD annually
- USA, NY, New York: $162,700.00 - $220,200.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, Seattle: $147,900.00 - $200,100.00 USD annually
Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
- Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave