DescriptionAre you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Machine Learning 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) Machine Learning team as a Business Development Specialist!Key job responsibilitiesBe the outward face of AWS generative AI and machine learning by defining and executing go-to-market activities for Amazon SageMaker. You will be working hand-in-hand with AWS generative AI and machine learning Solution Architects, Product Managers and Marketing Managers to run world-wide sales plays and campaigns that target specific customer cohorts and drive specific use-cases and service capabilities. You will be engaging directly with customers’ business stakeholders on a daily basis to understand their needs in generative AI and machine learning and help them adopt the right Service capabilities. Your work will define and drive the process that regional AI/ML presales and account teams will follow to accelerate sales and partner engagements of the AWS ML Services portfolio and you will synthesize data and information gathered from these customers and partners into your GTM strategy to successfully scale service adoption. This entails garnering impactful customer and market insights, developing messaging and solution strategies, communicating those findings to product and sales teams, including senior management. This also involves educating and enabling regional AI/ML presales and AWS account teams to drive effective sales plays and campaigns to accelerate worldwide adoption of AWS ML Services.About the teamAs part of the Worldwide Specialist Team, you will lead the global GTM plan for [specific AWS Service, Industry, Customer Type, or Geographic Area]. You are a leader for specialists, architects, partners, and account teams around the world and set direction and standards for how we solve customer problems in your area of expertise. You partner with technical and business teams and bring the voice of the customer into our product development roadmap. The WW team sees the big picture and sets the plan so the world’s most customer obsessed technical teams can make history.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Arlington, VA, USA | Santa Clara, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USABasic Qualifications
6+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
Bachelor's degree
Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Preferred Qualifications
Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements
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 communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple teams, as well as internal and external executive stakeholders. ·
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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