We are recruiting talent to play a key role in identifying and building new businesses at Amazon. To be considered for this role, you must have experience building a revenue-generating startup from zero-to-one (ideally as a member of the founding team), or as an investor at a top-tier venture firm where you evaluated new spaces and investment opportunities. You have an insatiable appetite to learn new areas (including those that are technical) and a willingness to dive deep into details, be capable of credibly engaging entrepreneurs, investors, subject matter experts, and potential customers to form data-driven perspectives on opportunities, and an ability to stay focused and motivated in an ambiguous, highly-dynamic environment. In additional to evaluating cutting edge technologies, you are comfortable digging into financial models to distinguish between interesting ideas and profitable businesses. You are outstanding at distilling complex subjects into easy to understand, actionable written artifacts based on data. Finally, you are willing and able to relocate to Seattle to work with a team in person in the near term. Still interested? Read on, we’d love to speak with you about this incredible opportunity!

Job Summary
In this role, you have the opportunity to contribute to developing new businesses at Amazon. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast-paced start-up like environment and want to invent the future in new areas for existing and future Amazon customers. You are tasked with evaluating different areas to understand key customer pain points, mapping out existing solutions to those needs, and understanding Amazon’s efforts in the space. You combine sources of knowledge to formulate perspectives on how Amazon can offer customers a differentiated solution to meet their needs. In this role, you are responsible for writing reports and proposals and evaluating them at a high cadence with a team. This is a high-visibility role in which your work receives frequent senior-level reviews, including engaging with Amazon’s senior leadership team.

NOTE: This role is based in Seattle, Washington and requires you to be physically in the office collaborating with your teammates. We are unable to consider remote/hybrid candidates.

Key job responsibilities
Our team at Amazon is recruiting a highly-versatile candidate to contribute to identifying opportunities for Amazon to build a large, sustainable business.

In this role, you will:

• Work independently and as part of a small team to identify and qualify promising areas for Amazon to pursue
• Perform extensive first-person research independently and with the other members of a team
• Distill learnings from your internal and external research into clearly-written idea proposals for discussions/meetings

A day in the life
Over time, your role evolves from research and exploration as an individual contributor to implementation. Initially, you are tasked with bringing well-formed written proposals to the team for review. Once we've landed on a problem space and identified a solution that has Amazon-scale potential, you are responsible for building the “working backwards” document that outlines the opportunity and details the resources required to build it.

About the team
Our team has two primary responsibilities: (1) identify and rigorously analyze new areas for Amazon to pursue; and (2) once an opportunity has been identified and approved, execute on delivering a solution for customers. We pursue solutions that often deliver radical improvement over the state-of-the-art in solving customer problems, and have the potential to grow into meaningful businesses for Amazon.

NOTE: This role is based in Seattle, Washington and requires you to be physically in the office collaborating with your teammates. We are unable to consider remote/hybrid candidates.

• MBA, MS, Ph.D, or advanced degree
• Excellent business instincts: you obsess about how to deliver new, sustainable businesses on a global scale
• Experience in rapid ramp, scale up, and transitioning of ideas to new businesses
• Demonstrated ability to pivot into new, deeply technical areas and quickly formulate a point of view of customer pain points and untapped business opportunities
• Comfort diving into financial statements to understand the costs and business drivers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to represent and advocate for highly complex business or technical concepts with executive leadership.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $144,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $279,900/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.