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Description

At Amazon Web Services (AWS) we help our customers build the future with the latest cloud technology. As a leader championing customer success in the Customer Solutions Management organization you will lead a pre-sales team that is responsible for helping guide AWS customers along their multi-year journey to the cloud. You will recruit, develop, and support a group of highly talented individuals that are obsessed with our customers success. Using your experience, you will work with your team, sales and other leaders across AWS to drive strategy, improve customer engagement, solve problems, and foster the rapid growth of the organization.

The Customer Solutions Management organization is a presales function that looks after our customers journey throughout the adoption, go live and insures we are continuing to provide value as we increase retention and expand renewals. The team guides our customers through the operational, educational and governance aspects of a successful AWS cloud journey. They interfaces with customer and AWS leadership, driving collaboration between other core account groups.

In this role, you will be technically capable and credible in your own right as well as effective in shaping the customer journey and skills of your team. You must enjoy learning and introducing new concepts in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. Furthermore, thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and helping to develop out mechanism to help our customers be successful with AWS . You will help team members ramp-up on AWS as well as develop speaking, writing, presentation, and executive interaction skills. You will need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other departments within AWS such as our sales, services, marketing, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management.

Other qualities we are looking for:

Be great fun to work with. At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.

Enjoy developing talent to achieve great things. You will have a passion for educating, training, and enabling cloud adoption experts for a diverse and challenging set of Enterprise customers. We love people who innovate, use data to make decisions, and can express themselves thoughtfully. We want you to be passionate about delivering a great customer experience and love contributing to a shared goal.

Have a strong obsession on customer success and successful cloud adoptions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working with customers or similar role and leading all aspect of successful cloud adoption.

Key job responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities

· As a key member of the business development and sales management teams, ensure success in our customers cloud journeys.

· Hire, on-board, train, and develop new Solution Delivery Managers from internal and external sources

· You will own the needs of your team, set and measure goals, coach and mentor employees, and contribute to the overall evolution of the technical delivery function.

· Coach Solutions Delivery Managers in the skills needed to successful lead virtual teams, manage cadence and have the wherewithal to help our customers work backwards.

· Guide and motivate the development of whitepapers, data sheets, and other high-value customer facing guidance and best practices

· Build deep relationships with decision makers within customer accounts to enable them to be “Cloud advocates”

· Act as a conduit and liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Hybrid Work

We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords engineers options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our Amazon offices. Our hybrid models allow you the freedom to work from home whenever in-office collaboration isn’t necessary.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Operations Research, or a related field or 10 years of large scale IT deployment or program experience.

• 10+ years in a technology role

• 5+ years leading customer facing teams

• Working knowledge of enterprise cloud strategies, distributed applications and engineering lifecycle from conception to delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

• Direct experience implementing AWS/cloud services

• Demonstrated leadership through influence and ability to coach and mentor others

• History that includes managing large technical programs, particularly at high growth startups or Fortune 500 companies

• Working knowledge of Agile practices such as SCRUM, Kanban, or SAFe

• Prior experience working in a Sales organization Demonstrated ability to effectively deliver information at the C-suite/VP level Demonstrated ability to maintain composure in stressful situations, responds to customer needs quickly and effectively, adapts to change

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.