GTM Strategist, AWS Corporate Strategy & Business Development

We are seeking a Pan-Amazon Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategist to join our AWS Corporate Strategy and Business Development team and work on our most complex and strategic pan-Amazon pursuits.

This is a unique opportunity to join a centralized corporate team that manages strategic partnerships across all of Amazon.

Strategists define a common executive vision, develop a plan to achieve the vision, and build an economic case for change to facilitate deal negotiations and closure.

Customers we engage with are looking to be disruptive and leaders in their markets and industries.

Key job responsibilities

The ideal candidate will exhibit excellent business judgment and possess strong business / financial acumen, industry experience (e.

g., retail, CPG, automotive, banking, insurance, media, healthcare and life sciences), and technology competence coupled with a track record of working on large, complex, multi-year customer engagements an analytical, technical and strategic thinker, who is passionate and relentless. In particular, you will :

• Work with senior leaders from our customers and across Amazon to build a common vision and innovation strategy that helps them reinvent their business
• Develop roadmaps to achieve the vision with ability to empathize with a large company’s people, process, and technology legacy
• Build the case for change (incl. business model) and prepare board-ready presentations and briefings for senior executive stakeholder communications
• Curate and manage repeatable pan-Amazon solutions
• Influence C-level executives and build trusted relationships
• Partner closely with sales leadership and cross-functional teams across Amazon and partners, including sales, product, operations, engineering, architecture, professional services, legal, and finance to execute a winning deal
• Support the strategic objectives and interests of Amazon’s business teams on a global basis

About the team

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AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry.

Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.

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

Arlington, VA, USA New York, NY, USA Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
• 5+ years of professional or military 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
• Excellent oral and written skills to communicate complex issues and influence others internally and externally
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to gain respect of senior management and external executives
• Thinks big and is action and results oriented
• Self-starter who can excel in a fast-paced and fluid environment and the ability to think strategically and analytically about customer challenges
30+ days ago