Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Database background, and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Data Migration and Modernization (D2M) team as a Business Development Specialist.
The Worldwide Specialist Organization 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 customers’ 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 specialists 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.
Data Migration and Modernization (D2M) is a Worldwide (WW) Specialist team that supports both AWS customers and AWS Field teams to help our customers migrate and modernize their Database and Analytic workloads to AWS. A D2M WW Specialist develops global initiatives and mechanisms to help accelerate migrations, guides our customers through the challenges they will face, and enables our AWS teams and partners to position the business value of data migration and modernization with AWS. This role will also help shape the roadmap, support development, and drive adoption of programs to accelerate customers across their entire migration lifecycle. The D2M WW team sees the big picture and sets the plan so the world’s most customer obsessed technical teams can make history.
Key job responsibilities
• Lead Specialist to orchestrate sales motions for sales, marketing, partner, product, training, and professional services teams to accelerate adoption of your aligned technology domain, thinking through challenges on a 1-3+ year time scale.
• Leverage your deep data domain expertise to create best in class field enablement and sales strategies.
• Support field teams in solution building for high priority customers.
• Bring market signals back to product teams to drive innovation on AWS product roadmaps.
• Own reporting and planning cadences to AWS executives on GTM plan execution.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and be able to credibly represent AWS at industry events, conferences, symposiums, etc.
About the team
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.
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of professional or military experience
- 5+ years of Go-To-Market, Business Development, Sales, or Consulting experience
- 5+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning), GenAI (Generative AI), Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
- 5+ years of in program management, workforce strategy development, or metrics-driven decision making experience
- Experience presenting to both technical and non-technical executive audiences
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience explaining complex technical concepts to various business and technical audiences
- Experience leading complex, multi-year initiatives that may be cross-functional and/or span business and technology
Preferred qualifications
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience designing, implementing, and scaling workforce development programs across large-scale operations, including forecasting workforce needs and leveraging analytics to drive program decisions
- Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations across leadership and cross-functional teams
- Experience using analytical tools for workforce metrics and reporting
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, San Francisco - 162,700.00 - 220,200.00 USD annually
USA, IL, Chicago - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 162,700.00 - 220,200.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually
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