Amazon

Sr. Business Developer -- SMB Growth & Retention, Amazon Shipping (Unmanaged/SMB), Amazon Shipping

Amazon$147K — $200K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ years of relevant professional or military experience
  • 5+ years in customer growth, lifecycle/retention marketing, account management, or business development with measurable outcomes
  • Experience in designing and running customer programs with data-driven measurement
  • Strong communication skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Own and grow the existing shipper base by identifying expansion opportunities
  • Design and launch a tiered benefits program that rewards consistent shipping
  • Develop scalable enablement programs with webinars and best practices for merchants
  • Create early-warning signals for at-risk shippers and implement proactive save motions
  • Establish a mechanism for collecting shipper feedback and translating it into actionable insights
  • Define growth metrics and track programs to maximize ROI
  • Engage deeply with shipper needs to create valuable programs
  • Operate as a subject matter expert and align business development strategy with product strategy

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Mental health support and employee assistance programs
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
As a Sr. Business Developer on our Unmanaged/SMB team, you will own the growth engine for our existing shipper base think customer growth team, built for SMB. You'll drive the stabilization, growth, and retention of thousands of self-service shippers, designing the benefits, enablement, and lifecycle programs that make merchants ship more and stay longer without one-to-one account management. You will be goaled on incremental revenue from settled shippers and on retention.

Key job responsibilities
• Own settled-base growth segment the existing shipper base, identify expansion opportunity (volume, lanes, services), and build lifecycle programs that grow shipping volume per shipper at scale.
• Build the tiered benefits program design and launch a non-pricing benefits program (frequent-shipper tiers) that rewards consistent shipping, with a roadmap of benefits that deepen loyalty year over year.
• Run enablement at scale build the webinar, content, and best-practice engine that makes thousands of merchants successful simultaneously onboarding deepening, feature adoption, and shipping optimization programs.
• Own retention build early-warning signals for at-risk shippers, design proactive and reactive save motions with automation/AI at a scalable ROI, and own the regretted-attrition number.
• Own the voice of the shipper (VOS) run a scalable mechanism for collecting shipper feedback, walk the store to find friction in the self-service experience, and translate signals into prioritized Product, Tech, and Operations improvements.
• Define and own growth metrics set program OKRs (incremental revenue from settled shippers, retention and regretted attrition, program engagement, benefit-tier progression), track rigorously, and iterate to maximize ROI.
• Work backwards from shipper needs earn trust by diving deep into shipper economics, shipping patterns, and pain points to design programs merchants actually value.
• Own your domain end-to-end operate as the subject matter expert for your channel, define BD strategy that complements the product strategy, and deliver results through scalable mechanisms rather than one-off effort.
• Think big and innovate replace what account management does for enterprise customers with programs, benefits, and automation that scale to tens of thousands of SMBs.

A day in the life

You are a growth operator who thrives on making an installed base more valuable. You spend your time in the data segmenting shippers, designing the next benefit tier, reviewing what the VOS mechanism surfaced this week, and measuring which programs actually moved revenue and retention. You're equally comfortable presenting a retention deep-dive to leadership as you are scripting a webinar for a thousand merchants. You operate with startup speed in a big-company environment every program you build should serve thousands of shippers, not one.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree

- 5+ years of professional or military experience

- 5+ years of customer growth, lifecycle/retention marketing, account management at scale, or business development experience with a track record of measurable revenue outcomes

- Experience designing and running customer programs (benefits, loyalty, enablement, or retention) with data-driven measurement

- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and thrive in ambiguity

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience building loyalty/benefits or lifecycle programs that drove measurable revenue growth at scale (thousands+ customers)

- Experience with B2B retention, churn prediction, or customer-success operations at scale

- Experience in e-commerce platforms, logistics/shipping, or marketplace ecosystems

- Experience building webinar/content engines or scaled enablement programs

- Experience with SQL/analytics and cohort-based program measurement

- Experience in a startup or early-stage business unit within a large company

- Experience working with SMB merchant segments

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, San Diego - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually

USA, CA, Santa Clara - 162,700.00 - 220,200.00 USD annually

USA, CA, Santa Monica - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually

USA, GA, Atlanta - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually

USA, IL, Chicago - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually

USA, MA, Boston - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Bellevue - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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