Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com Company, has been the world’s leading cloud provider for more than 15 years with the most mature, comprehensive, and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has over 200 fully featured cloud services, managed from 81 availability zones within 25 geographic regions across the globe. Millions of customers in over 190 countries - from the fastest growing start-ups to the largest enterprises, through to leading government agencies - all place their trust in AWS to power their infrastructure, and deliver innovation.

AWS’s education programs (AWS Educate & AWS Academy) are part of Amazon’s global initiative to accelerate cloud-learning and to prepare for the cloud-enabled jobs of tomorrow. Through AWS Educate and AWS Academy, we are trying to reimagine how and where students learn, and through what mediums. We are keen to hire people who share this passion and can take from their current experiences and learning to help challenge our expectations.

As an AWS Business Development Intern in Hong Kong, you will have the exciting opportunity to work in the Strategic Program Team to deliver AWS strategy to drive education programs adoption in Hong Kong to culture more cloud talents. You will be responsible for defining the operational efficiencies of the education programs in Hong Kong. Working with internal stakeholders, you will be part of the core team in driving this initiative locally while ensuring alignment with and reporting of the metrics to the global team. AWS is seeking a go-getter and a quick-learner who can dive into the depths of the programs, whilst thinking about innovative ways to reinvent processes and mechanisms of the programs.

You will help us ensure customer expectations are met through ensuring clear and swift follow-up. Working across universities, high schools, education institutions, governments and companies you will quickly understand their businesses and empathize with the challenges they face.

Key job responsibilities

• As the owner of AWS education programs (AWS Educate & AWS Academy) in Hong Kong on operational activities, including but not limited to:

• Holding digital and physical campaigns and events

• Drive AWS Education Programs certification numbers to increase the overall adoption of AWS and various programs.

• Participate in stakeholder meetings and help to enhance and maintain relationship with key stakeholders (i.e. University educators and students, startup incubation centers, education community leaders, etc.)

• Work closely, as needed, with broader teams including Sales, Marketing, Public Policy, Business Development, Legal and etc.

• Help to manage student leaders from the Student Ambassador program

• Lead the data analysis process, working across teams to understand enterprise customers’ usage and solution sets.

• Assist full-time employee in migration application follow up, weekly report preparation, internal program enablement arrangement.

• Support AWS-led and 3rd party collaboration event, including Digital Innovation, AWS marketplace promotion, strategic enterprise collaboration event (startup engagement or talent cultivation)

• Support Joint Innovation Center (JIC) operation, startup prospect engagement, and community (startup, investor, corporate) management by orchestrating cross functional and partner resources.

• Other duties as assigned may include data analysis, Salesforce hygiene, tracking of metrics and reporting, special project management, proposal writing, data retrieval/management/reporting, and post event tracking.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Causeway Bay, HKG

Basic Qualifications

• Graduate between Jan 2024 to Aug 2024. Currently pursuing an Undergraduate Degree or Master’s degree who is looking to build a career in Technology and IT Business Development. Fresh graduates can also apply.

• Pursuing a degree in computer science, IT, finance, business, marketing, or relevant field of study.

• Good organizational skills including problem solving, prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.

• Basic understanding of cloud computing landscape and AWS

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for tech, education, and startups; self-motivated and independent; great team player to work with