Description
At Amazon, our mission is to be the earth’s most customer-centric company. To achieve this, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is continuously evolving, and is a place where motivated employees thrive, and where employee ownership and accountability lead to meaningful results.
AWS APAC Strategy Associate Role
As a full-time strategy associate in Asia-Pacific (APAC), you will lead our business’ most strategic initiatives to uncover new opportunities or solve our biggest challenges. You will have the exciting opportunity to work cross-functionally and cross-geographically to identify problems and gaps, collect and analyze data, generate insights, and come up with solutions. You will execute on your proposed business strategies to solve difficult problems and remove blockers for our customers and our business. To do so, you will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders such as sales, operations, product, and marketing teams. Our strategy associates are provided mentorship and opportunities to invent for our business. Through leading initiatives across Asia-Pacific, you will gain a unique insight into the internal workings of the world’s fastest growing billion dollar IT organization, as you learn and explore your passion.
Who are we looking for?
We hire builders and are looking for generalists who enjoy critical thinking, problem solving, and driving initiatives that can create huge impact for our customers and business. We are looking for a diverse group of strategy associates with a shared enthusiasm for AWS and cloud computing.
The Ideal Candidate
Is creative and curious to learn
Has exceptional communications skills
Has strong financial/business acumen
Is analytical and able to analyze data and provide data-driven arguments to innovate and simplify processes
Has strong project and program management skills with the ability to drive new initiatives
Has a “can-do” spirit with a strong sense of ownership to execute end-to-end projects
Has outstanding interpersonal skills and is able to earn trust and influence others
Is independent and comfortable with navigating ambiguity
Is highly organized and can multi-task and prioritize competing stakeholder requests
Uses a customer-centric approach to solve problems
Thrives in a lean, fast-paced, entrepreneurial, multi-cultural environment
Has a passion for AWS and driving cloud computing adoption across Asia-Pacific
Basic Qualifications
A stellar academic and/or professional record
Analytical and quantitative skills and ability to utilize Excel and/or other software to provide data to support your analysis
Quick learner and comfortable with ambiguity
Excellent English written and oral communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
A master’s degree or equivalent experience
Knowledge of cloud computing and AWS services
Experience managing strategic projects and demonstrated ability to get buy-in from key stakeholders (leading initiatives from inception through execution)
Experience working within a high-growth technology company or consulting firm
Basic Qualifications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Preferred Qualifications
A master’s degree or equivalent experience
Knowledge of cloud computing and AWS services
Experience managing strategic projects and demonstrated ability to get buy-in from key stakeholders (leading initiatives from inception through execution)
Experience working within a high-growth technology company or consulting firm