🎯 Principal Account Manager, Amazon Marketplace (Brand Manager)📍 San Diego, CA 92101 - onsite at Symphony Towers, 5 days a week💰 $150,000 - $200,000 DOE📦 Managing enterprise brands • Individual contributor, no direct reportsAs a Principal Account Manager / Principal Brand Manager you own a book of a handful of enterprisebrands as their primary strategic partner. You own the forecast, PPC strategy, catalog, and more through the quarterly business review, with our advertising, content and supply chain specialists executing alongside you.
This is a senior individual-contributor role. You will own a book of brands, not a team of people.What you will actually own- The forecast. You set it, you defend it, and you are the one explaining the variance.
- The advertising strategy, executed by our advertising strategists. You set the direction and own the number; they are in the console.
- The QBR. You run the room. These are S-tier clients and the expectation is that you handle them with minimal involvement from leadership.
- The escalation. When something breaks across catalog, supply chain and content at once, it routes to you and the fix is yours to design.
- The growth case. You find the opportunity in the account before the client asks for it.
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One honest filter before you spend time applying: the bar here is external client brands - brands that belonged to someone else and could have fired you - including at least one at $15M+ in annual Amazon gross sales that you personally owned.
• Required- Agency, accelerator or aggregator experience managing external client brands - companies that were someone else's and could have fired you. In-house ownership of your own employer's brands, however large, is a different job.
- 3-5 external client brands managed simultaneously at enterprise (large) scale
- Hands-on Amazon Seller Central or Vendor Central experience within the last 6 months - currently in the platform, not overseeing someone who is
- The bar: you have personally owned at least one external client brand doing $15M+ a year on Amazon.
- Forecasting and P&L fluency: you can build the model, not just read it
- The client presence to run a QBR with an executive stakeholder and own a hard conversation in the room
- Able and willing to work onsite in San Diego 5 days a week
+ Preferred, not required- Vendor Central depth alongside Seller Central
- Experience in CPG, health, wellness or beauty categories
- Advertising fluency deep enough to challenge or enforce a strategist's plan
- Bachelor's degree, or the equivalent in experience
💵 About the payWe post the whole band, $150,000 to $200,000 base, and we mean all of it. Where you land is not about years on a résumé. It comes down to the size of book you can carry on day one - above all, the scale of the largest single account you have genuinely owned, and how much of it was yours rather than delegated.
Base salary, no bonus or equity.
🏢 Why this job is onsiteFive days a week in the office is stricter than most of this market, and we would rather explain it than bury it.
Because we own the inventory on most of our brands, your account decisions are never yours alone - they touch what we bought, what is in stock, what the listing says and what advertising is spending. The people who do this well walk to the strategist's desk, get the answer in seconds, and change the plan before the day closes.
Relocating? Relocation support is available for the right candidate, and we may fly finalists in for their onsite. Raise it early and we will work it out with you rather than at the end.
📅 Your first 90 daysYour first two weeks are reviewing our training platform (Trainual), our processes and meeting the specialists you will work with daily. Over the following 90 days you learn the Luminize account methodology by shadowing on live books and working real scenarios from ours. You take your first directly owned brand inside the first month or two, and ramp toward a full book of three to five.
🏙 Symphony Towers- Panoramic city and coastline views from your workspace
- Free building gym access, no separate membership
- 24/7 paid downtown parking, blocks from the office, plus secure bike storage
- Exclusive discounts at tower restaurants and cafes
- Steps from 100+ top-rated bars, restaurants, coffee shops and Petco Park
- Ergonomic standing desks, fully stocked kitchen, snacks, espresso
- Monthly all-company lunches, and a team lounge with a pool table
🎁 Benefits- Comprehensive medical through Anthem Blue Cross, multiple plans
- Dental and vision, including orthodontia and annual exams
- Pet benefits - savings on vet care, products and services
- 120 hours of vacation accrued annually, with rollover
- Paid holidays and sick time
- 401(k) with company match
📈 Where this seat goesStaying here is a real answer. This is the senior individual-contributor seat in account management, and it is not a waiting room for something else. The book gets better rather than bigger - the brands other people escalate to you, the accounts that decide a quarter, the clients we put in front of a prospect. Plenty of people want exactly that and nothing more, and we are not going to push you out of it to make an org chart look tidier.
If you want people leadership, that door is opening. We are growing, and a growing account team needs managers. We are not going to promise you a team on a date we cannot name, because we would rather under-promise here than have you find out in month six. What we will tell you is that when those seats open we look inside first, and the person carrying the hardest book is usually the first conversation.
Either way, we publish leveling guidelines, so you will know what each step asks of you long before you are asked to reach for it.
👉 If you want the enterprise book without the org chart, apply.
