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Sr Tech Biz Dev, Kuiper Site Acquisition, Africa & Middle East, Kuiper



Job description

Have you ever wanted to be part of a team who is building industry changing technology?

Amazon’s Project Kuiper is long-term initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Kuiper is a comprehensive, evolving, and growing business unit within Amazon.com which provides satellite internet services.

The Kuiper Ground Infrastructure Services team owns delivering Kuiper Earth Stations and other highly visible programs.

This role will lead the way breaking ground on this new business! In this role, you drive the strategic acquisition of Project Kuiper’s ground infrastructure sites in the Africa/Middle East Region.

You will help Kuiper grow our ground presence and build partnerships to deliver capacity to meet customer demand.

As a Technical Business Development Manager, you will shape and execute on strategies to establish our portfolio and related infrastructure.

You will negotiate the contracts needed to provide capacity in the form of land acquisition, teleport locations, and build-to-suit developments.

This position may require access to information, technology, or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government.

Key Job Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and communication of the strategic infrastructure plans for Ground Infrastructure Locations.

  • Work with key internal stakeholders to determine our site acquisition strategy and due diligence requirements and related vendor and contract needs as we enter new geographic areas.

  • Solicit and evaluate proposals for site acquisition services and select top tier vendors to execute our strategy.

  • Negotiate key long term contracts with vendors from beginning to end including strategy development, financial analysis, business terms and legal review to establish working partnerships.

  • Oversee vendor activities from site candidate search to construction handoff, coordinating schedules with Construction and other internal stakeholders.

A day in the life: You will be meeting with and managing 3P vendors, reviewing submitted site candidate information both deskside and in-person, negotiating contracts, submitting for Legal review, coordinating with stakeholders such as Fiber, Construction and Regulatory, satisfying required Legal/Title, Technical and Environmental Due Diligence for site candidates.

This job entails ~25-50% travel within Africa and occasional travel to team meetings in the USA.

About The Team

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences.

We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion.

Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally.

We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences.

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, information technology or equivalent.

  • Experience developing, leading, negotiating and executing corporate and/or business transactions.

  • Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements.

  • Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.

  • Experience negotiating, permitting and acquiring land for Satellite, Teleports, Data Centers or Telecom infrastructure in the Africa/Middle East region.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Direct experience with real estate and land acquisition in the Middle East/Africa Region.

  • Ability to speak multiple languages is preferred.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

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Required Skill Profession

Software Architecture & Engineering



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