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Amazon

Global online marketplace and cloud services

Associate Account Executive

Full-Time
$31.39 - $54.90/hr

+ Sign-on payments + Restricted stock units (RSUs) + Sales incentives

Mid
Bachelor's
Seattle, WA, USA+2 more

More locations: Austin, TX, USA | Arlington County, Arlington, VA, USA

Remote
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • Experience in information technology sales.
  • Experience navigating prospective accounts from and into a senior executive level to identify new customer opportunities.
  • A Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Responsibilities
  • Work with other sales team members to ensure the opportunity is understood and next steps are clearly defined via demonstrations, discovery, and qualification.
  • Utilize product knowledge and internal resources to leverage technical skillsets to meet customers’ needs.
  • Achieve input and output goals, including contacts sourced, leads qualified, customer calls completed, meetings scheduled, and opportunities created.
  • Drive net new business through customer acquisition by leveraging one-to-many and one-to-one outbound campaigns and qualifying inbound opportunities from marketing and partner channels.
  • Expand services breadth and consumption within the existing customer base through account planning and territory management.
  • Accurately track activity and develop pipeline using Salesforce CRM and self-service reporting tools.
  • Develop new and creative ways to engage new customers and expand existing customer relationships.
  • Understand each customer’s technology footprint, technical challenges, and business objectives.
Desired Qualifications
  • Sales or equivalent certification.
  • Experience using Salesforce.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications.

About the company

Amazon operates a global e-commerce platform with a large online marketplace that connects consumers to both direct sales and third-party sellers across many product categories. It earns money from product sales and marketplace fees, Amazon Prime subscriptions, and AWS cloud services, plus a large Amazon Associates affiliate network. The platform combines fast shipping, streaming, cloud computing, and digital services to reach customers across numerous countries. Its goal is to be the world’s most customer-centric company by offering convenient access to a wide range of products and services.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • Prime Big Deal Days on October 6, 2026 should pull holiday demand forward.
  • Anthropic committed more than $100 billion to AWS capacity on April 20, 2026.
  • Amazon Now reached $1 billion annualized gross sales in India by September 15, 2026.

What critics are saying

  • AWS Bahrain remains offline after March 2026 drone strikes, exposing geopolitical infrastructure risk.
  • Another AWS regional attack in 2026 drives Gulf banks to Microsoft Azure.
  • Amazon cut 16,000 jobs in January 2026, and more teams face reductions.

What makes Amazon unique

  • Prime membership plus fulfillment density locks shoppers into Amazon’s ecosystem.
  • AWS and Anthropic’s 2026 partnership keeps Amazon central to enterprise AI spending.
  • Amazon Now gives India same-day commerce scale competitors like Blinkit still chase.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

1%
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