• 10+ years of B2B sales experience
• 10+ years of digital ad sales as an individual contributor selling performances based advertising or similar offering experience
• Experience managing internal and external relationships
• Experience of high level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management
• Experience presenting to SVP and C-Level
• Experience growing a product to maturity through collaboration with Product teams
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $144,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Amazon Ads helps brands create experiences that delight customers and deliver meaningful, measurable results. With 300+ million worldwide active customer accounts, and first-party insights based on shopping, streaming and browsing signals, brands can craft relevant campaigns that enhance customer experiences. Our solutions on Amazon.com and services including Prime Video, Twitch, Alexa, Amazon Music, and partnerships with third-party publishers and exchanges make Amazon Ads a priority partner to reach the right audiences in the right places, both on and off Amazon. If you are interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.
As a Principal Account Executive on the Hardlines PC team you will partner with peer Account Executives and use your 10+ years of experience selling digital advertising solutions to Fortune 100 brands and their ad agencies to successfully grow the advertisers' US revenue. With your broad and long-standing client-side and agency relationships within the digital media world), consultative approach and deep understanding of the digital advertising landscape, you will act as a strategic partner to your assigned advertiser and position a broad range of advertising solutions that will ensure that their business goals are met. You will further use your relationship building, networking, and strong communication skills to identify, develop and scale new business opportunities. Partnering with internal, cross-functional teams successfully to deliver results for your advertising customers is required.
This role will require travel as needed to meet with customers and partner teams. Effective January 2, 2025, the in-office expectation at Amazon is five days a week on days when you are not traveling.
Key job responsibilities
• Make strategic recommendations on Amazon Ads solutions, tailored to client marketing initiatives
• Deliver the highest level of sales and customer service to our clients to retain and grow revenue.
• Prospect, penetrate and create new relationships across the advertiser’s lines of business, including driving new deals to closure.
• Utilize Sales CRM tools to track all pertinent account information and sales progress as well as forecast and prioritize to achieve quarterly quota goals.
• Coordinate communication with partner account team members and operations teams
About the team
We lead with customer obsession, focused on growing our clients business while growing as individuals ourselves. We thrive in a collaborative environment, working harmoniously across multiple partner teams to deliver for our customers. Our vision is to be the best version of our team as possible, exceeding sales goals and growing our clients' business. We develop deep relationships with our clients, challenging them with a long term growth lens both on and off Amazon. We identify and overcome obstacles, leading with a solution mindset. We have fun and make history while doing it.
