Senior Account Executive,Adapt, Amazon Adapt

Amazon Adapt is hiring a Senior Account Executive to service the Amazon Ads LCS organization. This position can be located in New York City, NY or Remote. Amazon Adapt is a program designed to offer coverage solutions for business gaps which may occur due to extended leave of absence (parental, medical). Amazon Adapt deploys highly skilled, hyper-agile talent that ensures customers can continue to invest in their partnerships with Amazon Ads, uninterrupted. The program ensures that the high bar for customer service, strategic partnership, and revenue attainment is maintained during these coverage gaps. From day 1 Adapt team members must use their experience to earn trust with multiple stakeholders. Adapt team members are decisive, knowledgeable, and use high judgement. The Adapt role will give you a chance to Learn and be Curious and the autonomy to own projects that will help you advance your career at Amazon. The Adapt team prioritizes flexibility, and hires for both 40 and 30 hour work weeks.

As a Senior Account Executive on the Adapt team, you will report to the Amazon Adapt Sales Manager and use your 10+ years’ experience helping to bridge the gap between permanent AE coverage on Fortune 500 accounts. You will sell digital advertising solutions to C-Level and their ad agencies to successfully drive revenue targets. You will partner with the permanent Sales Manager you’re supporting and operations team to structure coverage for success, and cross-pollinate learnings with each new account assignment. With your broad and long-standing client-side and agency relationships within the media world, consultative approach and deep understanding of the digital advertising landscape, you will act as a strategic partner to your assigned clients and sell a broad range of advertising solutions that will ensure that their business goals are met. As an individual contributor, you’ll be supported by our operations team and will benefit from working alongside the leadership team that has charted our explosive growth.

This opportunity is a full-time (40 hour/week) position. Part-time (30 hour/week) candidates are also encouraged to apply.

Key job responsibilities
This role will live within the Amazon Adapt sales team, reporting to Head of US Adapt AE team and partnering with Adapt peers who are deployed across the US Amazon Ads organization. Key job responsibilities include:

• Own and ensure smooth coverage transitions for the books of business you cover.
• Deliver results for the Ads LCS business, inclusive of achieving revenue targets, executive engagements and long-term business planning through JBPs.
• 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 cross 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.

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of digital media ad sales experience - Experience closing sales and revenue generation - Bachelor's degree - Strong track record of high level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience closing sales and generating revenue - Experience in executive level engagement with SVP/VP/C-Suite - Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software - Bachelors’ degree in Marketing, Advertising or related field.

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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $121,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/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.

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