DESCRIPTION
Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Efficient Compute (Graviton, EC2 Spot, Autoscaling) background, and 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) Core Services (covering Edge services, Hybrid computing, Graviton, EC2 Spot, Core Networking, IoT, and more) 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 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, 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 Efficient Compute team positions AWS as the best place to run workloads that are time shiftable, shapable and instance flexible on Graviton and EC2 Spot instances. This position will focus on working with customers North America from the Telco, Media & Entertainment, Gaming, and Spots segments. Our team helps customers determine how to best leverage these services with ASGs for workloads consisting of rendering, customer game platforms, containers, Karpenter, big data processing and analytics with EMR or partner solutions, all with the confidence that the AWS cloud provides a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for customers to innovate and unlock new potential. As a Business Development Specialist focused on Efficient Compute, you will create scaled GTM motions for Graviton and Spot to expand adoption of these services into new or existing customer portfolios.
Key job responsibilities
Own the GTM strategy and execution for Efficient Compute in Telco, Media & Entertainment, Gaming, and Sports in North America, collaborating with teams in the field including Sales, Partners, Marketing, and other Specialists.
Leverage your deep expertise in your using cloud elasticity to host workloads on EC2 Spot or Graviton to understand the most important customer problems in your region and enable account aligned teams in the field to solve them.
Lead cross-functional initiatives to expand markets/accounts, develop scalable programs to drive adoption, and identify new opportunities within your domain.
Develop and execute goals to drive long term growth in your geography, while meeting/exceeding revenue and non-revenue driven KPIs.
Bring customer data and market signals back to Worldwide teams to ensure we are prioritizing the building of the right features and services for our customers.
Delivering monthly/quarterly business reviews and operational planning documents for your respective tech domain and geography.
Drive geographical scale through external partners; Partner with cross functional teams across Solution Architecture, Business Development, Marketing, Partners, and Training and execute customer acquisition programs and strategies.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Santa Clara, CA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of relevant GTM, Sales, or Consulting experience
- 5+ years of technology domain experience in Autoscaling Groups (ASGs), EC2 Spot Instances, Graviton, large scale data processing, rendering farms and grid computing, job schedulers, containers and open source Kubernetes projects such as Karpenter, and ISV software that take advantage of all of the above.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills with experience communicating to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Established track record of credibility as a technology advisor with customer executives (e.g. CEO, COO, CIO, CTO, CMO) and Line of Business Leaders.
- Experience and success in negotiating complex deals with customers and partners.
- Experience in a heavily matrixed sales environment, including developing, implementing, managing, and executing go-to-market growth initiatives and sales motions.
- Deep understanding of cloud technologies, including public and hybrid cloud platforms.
- Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/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.
