Business & Corporate Development

Business and Corporate Development (BCD) is comprised of six teams that play various roles in driving strategic initiatives and executing on inorganic transactions across Amazon’s business units. We span a range of teams and specialties, united by our mission to grow Amazon’s businesses. Our work has a major impact on the company’s long-term direction.

Each of our teams play a part in the end result:

Corporate Business Development
The Corporate Business Development (CorpBD) team is a centralized BD function that manages Amazon’s most complex and high-impact partnership engagements. Innovation is what makes our team tick. We’re at the sharp end of corporate initiatives to improve our customers’ experience, forging partnerships, striking deals, and driving strategies across a widespan of needle-moving verticals. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same, this is the team for you.

Corporate Development/Corporate Development Integration
The Corporate Development team is responsible for mergers, acquisitions, and investments across all of Amazon’s businesses. Notable acquisitions include MGM Studios, Whole Foods, One Medical, Ring, and Audible. In addition, the team is responsible for the Climate Pledge Fund, Industrial Innovation Fund, and Alexa Fund. Our Corporate Development Integration (CDI) Team enables Amazon’s acquisitions to accelerate thoughtful customer, employee, and business value at scale. CDI team supports acquisitions end-to-end, providing bespoke support based on the complexity of the target and the level of integration required to achieve acquisition rationale. The team works cross-functionally to create a clear path to close, ultimately culminating in an onboarded acquisition enabled to deliver value for customers at scale.

Amazon Fuse
Interested in working on a dynamic, customer-centric team? Fuse is a partner marketing channel that acquires incremental Amazon customers globally via third party partnerships. Through these unique deals, Fuse builds and launches new products and monthly services that enable distribution of Amazon’s top subscription services, including Prime, Prime Video, Amazon Music, and Kindle. We’re looking for creative thinkers, tech gurus, and marketing specialists striving to take customer service to the next level.

Amazon Registry Services
Amazon Registry Services is one of Amazon's truly greenfield opportunities, working to fundamentally change the fabric of the Internet by re-imagining how Top Level Domains (TLDs) are used as the core of an individual or organization’s Internet presence. We partner closely with teams across Amazon (e.g., AWS, Alexa, Echo, Kindle, Amazon Pay) to build disruptive new services, solutions and business models across a variety of verticals.  

Amazon Guided Shopping (formerly Antares)
The Amazon Guided Shopping team’s mission is to transform the way brands assist and educate shoppers by providing a suite of personalized, guided shopping products for use on Amazon and on brands’ own ecommerce sites. Amazon Guided Shopping’s Virtual Shopping Assistant (VSA) orients the shopping experience to the shopper’s agenda and use-case, educating them on key decision points and helping them make confident, informed purchase decisions. If you’re interested in helping to simplify product selection decisions and increase shopper confidence, VSA is the team for you. 

Voices of our team

“I’ve been able to work across the diversity of Amazon’s businesses and make three fairly significant functional pivots. I can’t think of another company where I would have been able to chart such an interesting career path!”
Kimberly
Director, Corporate Development Integration

“Amazon’s approach to invention means that anyone can dream up the next big idea and help make it a reality at such incredible scale. It’s just as true today as it was when I was a summer intern more than a decade ago.”
Nick
VP, Corporate Development

“Every day is a chance to innovate, to learn, to create, and to make a difference. I have dealt with ambiguity, worked on backend, frontend, security, scaling … This experience has helped me grow, not only as a software engineer, but also as a product owner.”
Priya
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Fuse