Senior Go-To-Market Specialist - AWS Edge Services, Public Sector & Enterprise

Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
Location: Arlington
Posted on: June 8, 2021

Job Description:

Are you passionate about the cloud? Do you want to help mold the future of how customers build amazing things with AWS? Want to be a part of the exploding EDGE market? Want to help define the technology AWS brings to Content Delivery networks? Our team is looking for a business development professional to help drive the go-to-market for AWS EDGE Services. We value enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity on this team.

CloudFront has become a priority for our customers across almost every industry. Ultimately, CloudFront is about solving business problems - either to increase revenue by using the data to create new digital services, or to increase efficiency by using the data to streamline operations and removing costs from operations. Customers are focused on solving business challenges, not simply connecting data and media, so they look to AWS to provide solutions to those problems.

This role is focused on our AWS EDGE Services including AWS Cloudfront, Shield, WAF and Lambda at the Edge. As a Business Development Manager, your responsibilities will focus on finding new markets for our services, working to build repeatable solutions for our sales team to use to delight customers and to planning for future services and solutions. In this role, your key responsibilities will include:

Contributing to building the Go-To-Market Plan

Helping define the market segments, customers, and industries

Building a strategic business development plan for the target markets and ensure it is well aligned across AWS

Executing the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. sales teams, service teams, legal, support, etc.)

Coordinating the Incubation and Launch of New Services

Being a part of the core team that works with the initial customers to ensure we have strong references at launch

Driving a plan to ensure sales and partner readiness

Understanding the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the internal development teams to guide the direction of our product offerings

• 5+ years of cloud, technical or digital business development experience
• BA/BS degree preferred or equivalent work experience required
• Presentation, sales, and negotiation skills
• Experience in both Public and Commercial Sector
• An understanding of key Content Delivery and/or Edge technology
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences at the C level
• Excellent written communication skills
• Demonstrated effectiveness working across multiple business units to achieve results
• Ability to prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team
• Experience in working with customers - including negotiations, opportunity management and relationship building
• Ownership and bias for action; ability to internalize goals and work independently to create appropriate action plans for those goals
• Meticulous attention to detail: ability to juggle many tasks in parallel without lowering your quality bar
• Proven ability to prospect, recruit, and manage executive level relationships
• Excellent business judgement and the demonstrated ability to think and act both strategically and tactically
• Understanding of cloud technologies
• Experience building Go-To-Market plans that scale across an organization
• Experience with sales enablement activities

This position can be remote, but candidates must be based near an AWS office location with a preference for Arlington, VA. (Arlington, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Cupertino, Dallas, Detroit, East Palo Alto, Herndon, Houston, Irvine, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York City, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Sunnyvale, Santa Monica, Seattle, Tempe)

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 team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have twelve employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.

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

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