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AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Would you like to lead AWS’s relationships with Private Equity (PE) firms, and influence decision making toward AWS for their portfolio companies’ infrastructure? Do you have the business acumen, technical command, and advisory experience necessary to earn trust within the PE ecosystem and help further establish Amazon as the leader in cloud services?

As a Principal Business Development Manager on the AWS Private Equity team, you have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to achieve broader use of AWS within the PE firms and their portfolio companies, with a particular focus on digital transformation. Your responsibilities include identifying and prioritizing PE firms to engage, driving the necessary business, strategic and technical relationships to establish new business in the firms and in their investments. You work closely with AWS sales teams to drive day-to-day interactions with the portfolio companies in order to build long-term business opportunity. You also collaborate with our partner network, AWS corporate development, industry specialists, product management and marketing teams on strategic initiatives that tie in to the PE community.

The ideal candidate possesses both a business background that enables them to lead extended, complex engagements at the CxO/VP level, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with technical leaders, software developers, architects, and data scientists. You demonstrate the ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges to build and convey compelling value propositions. You work with intentionality, consistently assess impact and work cross-organizationally to build scalable solutions. A strong sense of ownership, initiative, and resourcefulness is essential.

Key job responsibilities
- Serve as a key member of the Business Development team in helping drive AWS market and technical strategy.
- Identify infrastructure needs within key PE portfolio companies, and drive engagement through the PE firms.
- Execute a strategic business development plan, effectively aligning with key internal stakeholders (e.g. sales and account teams, partners, marketing, support, etc.).
- Work closely with PE firms and portfolio company leadership to ensure they derive optimized benefit from our web services, and have access to the technical resources required.
- Understand and actively utilize Analytics tools and other internal Amazon systems.
- Prepare and give business reviews to AWS senior leadership regarding progress and roadblocks in establishing PE engagement.
- Serve as the primary eyes and ears to the PE community on behalf of AWS and Amazon.
- Handle a high volume of concurrent engagements and scale with the fast pace of GenAI and cloud computing
- Some relevant business level technical knowledge is required, such as: database systems, core distributed computing concepts, fundamentals of cloud computing and virtualization, storage systems, GenAI and machine learning, content delivery networks (CDNs) etc. with ability to go deep enough on technical aspects to differentiate between core AWS services.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Basic Qualifications

- Experience in developing, negotiating and executing business agreements
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience working with Core Cloud Technology Services, including, but not limited to Compute, Edge, Hybrid, Security, and/or Networking
- Experience in Go-To-Market, Business Development, Sales, or Consulting
- Experience working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies, including, but not limited to, Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations
- Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage
- Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience as a founder or executive focused on related segments, or as a practice leader or business unit owner
- Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations
- Knowledge of big data businesses and technical concepts
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related analytical field (e.g., engineering, math, computer science), or a CPA and experience in financial modeling, P&L management or analysis
- Experience or equivalent business experience
- Experience of Private Equity or later-stage Venture Capital investing, operating leadership at a PE or later-stage VC portfolio company
- PE advisory experience with global strategy consultancy practices
- Working knowledge of software development practices and data center / infrastructure / networking technologies highly desired

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

About the company

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.

What makes Amazon unique

Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.

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Principal Business Development Manager - Private Equity

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About the company

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6 month growth

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2 year growth