Sr. National Account Manager – Retail Growth Channels, Ring & Blink

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Hawthorne, CA · Sales, Advertising, & Account Management

This role is for a Sr. National Account Manager focused on driving growth for Ring and Blink by establishing new strategic retail partnerships. The role involves identifying and securing partnerships, developing strategic account plans, leading contract negotiations, managing partner relationships, and collaborating with internal teams. While the role mentions leveraging AI tools for market analysis, optimization, and efficiency, the core function is sales and business development, not building or directly shipping AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify and secure new retail partnerships with national and regional retailers across growth channels including rural, outdoor, luxury, DIY, live shopping, and ecommerce using AI-driven market analysis and predictive modeling to target high-potential partners
  2. Drive new business development by proactively prospecting, pitching, and closing deals with retailers who can expand Ring and Blink's customer reach into new demographics and shopping behaviors
  3. Develop and execute strategic account plans to rapidly scale Ring and Blink product adoption across newly established partnerships, emphasizing speed and measurable growth
  4. Lead contract negotiations and program development for multi-year partnerships, leveraging AI tools to optimize terms, forecast performance, and identify win-win opportunities
  5. Manage and grow relationships with new partners post-launch, using AI-powered analytics to identify optimization opportunities, predict retailer needs, and drive continuous improvement

Skills

Required

  • Experience positioning and selling innovative solutions to new and existing customers and market segments
  • Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing opportunities across a wide spectrum of customer engagement levels
  • Experience proactively growing customer relationships within an account while expanding their understanding of the customer's business
  • Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
  • Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Nice to have

  • 5+ years of B2B or enterprise sales with a focus on hunting new business experience
  • Experience identifying trends and needs to improve an already closed large-scale technology deal
  • Experience managing a large number of account relationships and deals simultaneously, ideally within technology products.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI expertise
  • AI-driven market analysis
  • AI tools to optimize terms
  • AI-powered analytics
  • AI automation
  • machine learning for improved efficiency
  • AI-powered market intelligence tools
  • sentiment analysis
  • automated competitive tracking systems
  • AI tools to drive process efficiencies