Description

Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Startup background, and technical sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Startup team as a Business Development Specialist!

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which 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 work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

The WWSO team helps customers adopt our newest and most advantageous technologies. We are technology specialists. The WWSO Startup team is a team dedicated to helping Startups scale quickly and cost-effectively on AWS. We want Startups to grow better when they choose AWS and we make it easier by recommending the right technologies and then by helping Startups get up and running quickly.

This position specifically is part of the WWSO Startup team, where you will be a Technical Business Developer that helps Startups adopt AWS’ technologies. You will 1/Be the best storytellers and technologists, 2/Work with the most promising Startups, 3/Scale tech knowledge via products, programs, and the AWS Field, and 4/Gather critical Startup feedback to inform our product roadmaps.

Roles Responsibilities

• Represent the voice of the customer; collaborate with field and geo teams to bring customer feedback to product teams. Lead curation of custom feature and availability requests for unique customer use cases.

• Interact at the CxO/VP level, as well as with developers and technical architects, to ease adoption, develop pipeline, secure lighthouse customers, drive top-line revenue, and explore strategic partnerships.

• Become a trusted business advisor within customer accounts through Technical Thought Leadership.

• Define, develop, and deploy Startup focused sales and business development initiatives that leverage AWS Field teams, as well as technology and consulting partner channels.

• Collaborate with AWS Product and Technical teams to create solutions that solve customer problems, including reference architectures, patterns, automation, and release plan.

• Orchestrate startup strategies, develop program roadmap, organize work steams and milestones, gain buy-in and interlock across functional and regional leaders

• Executing organization-wide initiatives — influence and align stakeholders, define project plans, assemble resources, manage implementation activities, and develop all processes associated with program roll-out and ongoing support.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications

• 7+ years management of technical, customer facing resources

• 7+ years of domain experience in cloud computing fundamentals and architectures, performance optimization and orchestration

• Bachelor’s Degree Required

Preferred Qualifications

• Startup background and experience at a VC or PE-backed firm in a Product, BD, or Sales Executive capacity.

• Familiarity with open-source software used by Startups and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.

• Established track record of building rapport with Startup executives and closing strategic deals.

• Strong data-based storytelling skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with Startup executives and developers.

• Recognized industry expertise in primary discipline(s) with proven public speaking prowess.

• Cloud expertise as demonstrated by one or more cloud certifications.

• Advanced degree highly preferred, especially an MBA or MS in CS or Engineering.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $158,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $262,000/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.