Head of Accelerators, Startup Business Development

4 weeks ago


San Francisco, California, United States Amazon Full time
Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced and motivated individual to lead the Accelerators team in the North America Startup Business Development organization at Amazon.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead a team that builds and manages relationships with leading early-stage investors and startups.
  • Act as the voice of the startup customer by discovering, capturing, and reporting back patterns and learnings from the field to internal teams including AWS services/product teams.
  • Conceive, author, secure support for, launch and execute new initiatives and programs to meet the needs of startup customers.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders, C-level executives and cross functional teams or equivalent
  • Experience managing and developing high performance teams
  • 10+ years of work experience
  • Operating experience in a senior role at a venture-backed startup or investing experience at a venture fund
  • Experience managing C-Level relationships with Startup leadership, General Partners at Venture Funds, and other key influencers in the startup ecosystem.
Preferred Qualifications
  • 5+ years of managing and developing high performance teams experience
  • Exited founder/CxO/operator of one or more ventures
  • Product or technical experience
  • Existing network with Managing Directors of Accelerator programs
  • Knowledge of core cloud computing concepts and ability to go deep enough on technical aspects to differentiate among various AWS services, as well as top use cases for popular startup industries
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills
  • Willingness to travel within North America

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