Description

We are seeking an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Optimization Specialist with the business and technical acumen to collaborate across multiple business owners, in order to drive successful IT transformation and cloud adoption. Be part of a team focused on working with customers to ensure they’re leveraging the full economic potential of AWS through cloud financial management. As an Optimization Specialist, you will have the opportunity to engage and consult with some of the largest and fastest growing cloud customers in the world.

Cost and operational effectiveness is key to accelerating the business and technological benefits of the AWS platform. AWS offers customers an alternative consumption model that differs from how businesses have traditionally bought IT, by focusing on paying only for what they need. We're looking for a hands-on and motivated self-starter who's passionate about working directly with customers to help adopt new business strategies and embrace cloud technologies at scale that ensure long-term customer success.

You will engage with customers’ Enterprise IT, Operations, and Finance teams to implement best practices for cloud adoption and cost savings. This will include generating and providing recommendations on how customers can optimize their usage of AWS services, working to reengineer internal processes, and ensuring customer success on AWS. You will have superb communication and customer-relationship skills, outstanding analytic insight, and be a passionate advocate for AWS customers. You will analyze large data sets, create financial models and simplify complex data to provide our customers with detailed, specific recommendations for implementing best practices for cloud adoption and cost savings. You must be comfortable working directly with customers, possess exceptional organizational skills, capable of creating simple, scalable solutions to difficult problems, and thrive in a fast paced and dynamic environment.

Key job responsibilities

• Act as a financial advisor and collaborate with AWS account team, to build and deliver executive content (such as financial business case, ROI and TCO Analysis, cost optimization strategies)

• Become the subject matter expert in all cost and commercial related aspects of the customer life-cycle

• Educate and enable customers with tools to successfully manage cloud and IT spend

• Assessing reporting and analytic needs of customers and identifying solution and approach to meet those needs.

• Communicate, establish, and measure KPIs to track progress and success of transformation and optimization within customer organizations

• Manage numerous requests concurrently & strategically

• Understand and communicate billing, forecasting, and budgeting best practices

About the team

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

About Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

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

Denver, CO, USA

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required or equivalent work experience

• 3+ years of technology related sales, technical sales, enterprise cloud and/or business development

• 2+ years experience working with cloud billing or cloud operations

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel with the ability to analyze large data sets, create financial models and simplify complex data

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of finance, business management and sales operations experience

• Experience working within a high-growth, technology company

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $70,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $169,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.