Tech Business Developer, Site Asset Management, Amazon Leo

Have you ever wanted to be part of a team who is building industry changing technology Amazon Leo is a long-term initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon Leo is a comprehensive evolving and growing business unit within which provides satellite internet services.

The Amazon Leo Site Asset Management team owns delivering Earth Stations and other highly visible programs. This role will lead the way breaking ground on this new business! In this role you drive the strategic acquisition of Amazon Leo ground infrastructure sites in the Africa/Middle East Region. You will help Amazon Leo grow our ground presence and build partnerships to deliver capacity to meet customer demand. As a Tech Business Development Manager you will shape and execute on strategies to establish our portfolio and related infrastructure. You will negotiate the contracts needed to provide capacity in the form of land acquisition teleport locations and build-to-suit developments.

This position may require access to information technology or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality citizenship and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulations.

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for someone who has satellite teleport wireless telecommunications or data center land acquisition and site development experience to help deliver capacity to meet customer demand. The ideal candidate is excited about negotiating complex and technical legal agreements and will possess the expertise and background necessary to evaluate optimal infrastructure supply options including a general understanding of fiber connectivity solutions. You should have a demonstrated ability to negotiate large service and real estate contracts from a business and technical perspective for infrastructure development.
- Work with key internal stakeholders (e.g. Business Economic Development Construction Networking Legal Tax Regulatory) to determine our site acquisition strategy and due diligence requirements and related vendor and contract needs as we enter new geographic areas.
- Solicit and evaluate proposals for site acquisition services (including hosting turnkey development and due diligence) and select top tier vendors to execute our strategy.
- Negotiate key contracts from technical perspective from beginning to end including strategy development financial analysis business terms and legal review.
- Onboard and oversee vendor activities from site candidate search to construction handoff.


About the team
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- 3 years of business development partnership management or sourcing new business experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- Experience in stakeholder management dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization

- Masters degree or equivalent
- 3 years of solving problems with technology in the Telecommunications industry experience

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