Are you passionate about transforming the streaming TV advertising landscape? Do you want to help build an advertising business that will revolutionize how brands connect with Prime Video's global audience? Prime Video Advertising is one of Amazon's newest and fastest-growing businesses, offering advertisers unprecedented reach across premium content including Amazon Originals, Live Sports, and more.
We are looking for an experienced and driven business leader to lead the growth of Prime Video Advertising in Japan. You will be responsible for delivering advertising revenue goals for Prime Video across all ads monetization programs in Japan, and for advocating for the role of advertising in Prime Video Japan’s long-term business strategy. You will achieve the revenue goals by working with local Content and global Ad Tech teams to increase ad supply, and with local Ad Sales and Marketing teams to generate ad demand. As Business Lead, you will partner with Finance and Business Intelligence teams to develop appropriate tracking mechanisms, lead ads-related business reviews with senior leadership, and represent ads-related workstreams in Prime Video business reviews.
To be successful, you will need to understand the dynamic between ad supply and demand in streaming TV, to have a keen eye for financials, to be able to write clear, compelling business narratives, and to be able to work cross-functionally with business and tech. You will have relevant work experience within the Consumer Tech, Ad Sales or Ad Tech industry in roles such as business planning, commercial leadership, category management or product management. Experience within ad sales or an advertising-driven business in Japan is a plus. Comfortable in spoken Japanese is a plus. You will have experience in defining the strategic vision and long-term roadmap for a business or suite of products, as well as experience in writing business or product proposals, defining business requirements and working with engineering teams to launch new features.
This is an individual contributor role, but has scope for future development into a people manager role.- 10+ years of relevant work experience within the Consumer Tech, Ad Sales or Ad Tech industry in roles such as business planning, commercial leadership, category management or product management
- Fluent in spoken and written English, able to communicate complex issues in a simple manner with clear logic and influence others internally and externally
- A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing or similar- Experience within ad sales or an advertising-driven business in Japan
- Comfortable in spoken Japanese
- Experience operating in a complex and ambiguous environment, with large dependencies on other teams to deliver results
- Experience in defining the strategic vision and long-term roadmap for a business or suite of products
- Experience in writing business or product proposals, defining business requirements and working with engineering teams to launch new features
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