The AWS Executive Visioning team is seeking an experienced, customer-obsessed professional to work directly with our most strategic customers—helping them envision what’s possible and innovate with us to make those visions reality. The role will require the successful candidate to execute engagements with AWS’ most strategic customers, using the proven Amazon “working backwards” methodology to uncover potential new partnerships, accelerate joint opportunities, and test new ideas. In addition to delivering Executive Visioning engagements.
This a fantastic opportunity for a proven professional to advance their overall business skills. Success will require the proven ability to collaborate effectively with senior leaders in a customer-facing role within a large, matrixed organization, while guiding customer facing teams. The right candidate has experience managing c-suite engagements, is compelling and comfortable in a creative brainstorming environment, and has experience in the technology industry. Superior collaboration and communication skills are required along with demonstrated experience working effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure entrepreneurial environment.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the pioneer and recognized leader in Cloud Computing. Our web services provide a platform for IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 500 companies in financial services, pharmaceuticals, and technology. Increasingly, these companies are looking at AWS not just as a technology provider, but as a strategic partner that can speed their ability to innovate in the fast and ever-changing digital economy.
Key job responsibilities
• Planning of senior-level executive engagements to accelerate customer-focused innovation and elevate AWS relationships. This includes coordination with multiple stakeholder groups and subject matter experts to understand customer needs, and account planning activities.
• Develop customer briefings through market research and customer interviews
• Develop key relationships with AWS sellers to align engagements and account strategies with internal stakeholders and customers
• Navigate business units within Amazon to align partnerships opportunities .
• Obsessively improve customer interactions by capturing feedback to iterate program management, processes and artifacts.
• Regularly report on progress and impact for team and sponsors.
• Inspect EV’s business, improve and develop standard operating procedures, and identify gaps and implement solutions to create efficiencies for the team.
• Constantly innovate and improve programs and program management mechanisms, suggesting new ideas and best practices for improving the business and customer engagement and sharing artifacts within the AWS Knowledge Management system.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills; able to articulate customer and stakeholder recommendations, balance tradeoffs, drive consensus, and gain support by utilizing excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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