Sr. Agency Development Manager, Amazon Ads – Amazon – Toronto, ON
Location: Toronto, ON | Company: Amazon
The Sr. Agency Development Manager, Amazon Ads role at Amazon Advertising Canada Inc. in Toronto, ON focuses on driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers and agencies using full-funnel advertising solutions across display, video, and custom ads. Amazon Ads leverages innovations and insights to help brands find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys.
In this position, you’ll own the Amazon Ads / Agency Holding Company relationship at the most senior level, with accountability for accelerating Amazon Ads revenue, increasing tool adoption, and expanding penetration across the agency’s total advertiser universe. You’ll operate within matrixed organizations, use data-driven decision-making, and “think big” while prioritizing bar-raising experiences for Amazon Advertising’s media agency customers.
About the role: Sr. Agency Development Manager (Amazon Ads)
As a Sr. Agency Development Manager, you play a critical role in enabling agencies with the knowledge, tools, education, and ideas they need to develop and sell through Amazon-focused strategies to their clients. You’ll be accountable for advertiser growth through strategic alliances, education, and ideation directly with agencies, while helping customers benefit from flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service and programmatic ad buying.
You’ll be comfortable working with complex data sets, inventing and simplifying for customers, and collaborating across Amazon to drive outcomes. This role requires strong communication, the ability to earn trust with senior stakeholders, and the ability to deliver compelling narratives and plans that increase adoption of Amazon Advertising tools and products, including a focus on video-centric branding solutions.
Benefits and Salary
The posting does not list a salary range. This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of agency partnerships, brand growth, and full-funnel advertising, with ownership of senior agency relationships and the ability to drive adoption across multiple Amazon Ads products through strategic planning, education, and enablement. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodations during the application and hiring process where needed.
Job Details
📌 Job Type: Sales, Advertising, & Account Management (Amazon Ads)
📍 Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
🏢 Company: Amazon Advertising Canada Inc.
Requirements / Skills
This position is designed for senior, agency-facing leaders who can drive revenue growth, adoption, and cross-team execution in a matrixed environment:
- Experience closing sales and revenue generation.
- 10+ years of digital media ad sales experience.
- Ability to build and manage engagement strategies with C-level, SVP/VP-level, and key decision makers within agencies.
- Ability to create and execute cross-team project plans and orchestrate multiple workstreams at once.
- Comfort operating with complex data sets, making data-driven decisions, and delivering strong outcomes.
- Preferred: Experience meeting revenue targets and quotas.
- Preferred: Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration.
- Preferred: Experience in programmatic advertising.
- Preferred: Strong written and verbal communication skills, including influencing senior stakeholders (VP & C-level).
- Preferred: Strong data-driven storytelling skills and ability to deliver compelling presentations with outstanding visuals.
How to Apply
If you’re ready to own senior agency relationships, drive Amazon Ads tool adoption, and build growth plans across display, video, and programmatic solutions, apply directly through the Amazon careers site using the posting for Sr. Agency Development Manager, Amazon Ads.
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Job Summary & Tips for Applying
To stand out for a Sr. Agency Development Manager role, make your resume clearly agency-first: highlight how you built and maintained relationships with C-level, SVP/VP-level, and influential stakeholders, and how you drove results across a portfolio. Use specific examples of how you increased digital media revenue, expanded account penetration, and helped agencies or advertisers adopt new products or buying models, including programmatic where relevant.
This role is heavily focused on strategy and enablement, so include proof that you can turn complex offerings into clear outcomes. Showcase times you delivered training, roadshows, summits, or broader enablement programs, and how that improved tool adoption, pipeline, or client retention. If you’ve shaped commercial structures or built growth plans around video-centric branding solutions, call that out directly with measurable impact.
Finally, lean into your ability to work across matrixed teams and use data to drive decisions. Highlight experience creating and executing cross-team project plans, reporting progress transparently, and using complex data sets to prioritize opportunities. A short, punchy summary that signals data-driven storytelling, strong communication, and the ability to “think big” while delivering practical results will match what Amazon Ads is looking for in senior agency leadership.
