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Description

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.

As a business development specialist for Digital Innovation, you will have an exciting opportunity to lead customer engagements and shape their innovation journey, working with field sales, other specialists, Americas sales leadership, and worldwide Transformation team. Your primary responsibility will be to identify, develop, and lead engagements with Enterprise customers – engaging line of business and C-suite leaders, qualifying opportunities, leading innovation engagements inspired by Amazon mechanisms like Working Backwards, and driving executive engagement, resultant prototypes and scaled production solutions. The innovation business cases developed with customers must be capable of passing senior level, and BOD, scrutiny. In addition, you will build and participate in mechanisms for tracking engagement impact for customers and for AWS, and use your experience to help improve our engagement model.

You must be comfortable working in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial enterprise technology sales environment, and working with cross functional teams as many parts of the program will have inter-dependencies with other teams within AWS. Typically, cross-functional collaboration includes sales leadership, industry business development teams, solutions architecture, marketing, partners, professional services, and sales enablement.

The right candidate will have experience delivering Digital Innovation or Transformation engagements for enterprise customers. This includes demonstrated experience in identifying and developing customer-centric digital innovation opportunities, a proven track record of leading and driving multiple simultaneous projects to meet customer business objectives, excellent project management skills, a customer-obsessed and collaborative approach, strong data and metrics bias, a good understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for helping customers drive business growth using cloud technologies.

Role & Responsibilities

• Work with sales leadership to identify and qualify customers for the Digital Innovation program

• Develop C-suite and line-of-business relationships with leading innovators within customer organizations

• Deliver high quality engagements using Amazonian innovation mechanisms like Working Backwards to identify specific end-customer problems or opportunities and articulate in a press release

• Facilitate Working Backwards workshops with customer executive groups

• Lead and coordinate translation of those solutions into working cloud prototypes, working with relevant engineering and services teams, and partners where appropriate

• Build value propositions/ business cases

• Train & enable local sales teams to help qualify customers, and – in some cases – lead elements of the digital innovation engagement

• Effectively track and articulate the value of engagements underway, and major wins

• Share knowledge effectively across the WW team

• Help develop and improve the Digital Innovation engagement model based on engagement experience

• Conduct customer briefings, present at customer events, further AWS solutions-led thought leadership in the innovation domain

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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 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.

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

Atlanta, GA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | New Jersey, NJ, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience

• 7+ years of professional or military experience

• Bachelor's degree

• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a founder or executive focused on related segments, or as a practice leader or business unit owner

• Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations

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 $20.43/hr in our lowest geographic market up to $49.13/hr 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.