Sr Specialist, Advanced Computing, Auto & Manufacturing

Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Advanced Computing 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) Automotive -MFG 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 customer’s 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.

Key job responsibilities

Within WWSO, this position is a part of the Go-To-Market (GTM) Specialist team, where you will lead GTM strategy for AWS’ Advanced Computing for Automotive-MFG.

We create sales plays, leverage partners, and build new initiatives that drive results for our customers. We provide critical feedback from customers to inform our product roadmap, and work closely with our partner network to build an ecosystem supporting our customers’ goals.

In emerging areas, we play a critical role as the first in teams to build markets for new services, domains, or solutions.

When a customer needs to innovate and requires a new way to leverage AWS, they count on us to innovate with them to build and deliver what they need.

The WWSO Advanced Compute team positions AWS as the best place to run Autonomous Vehicle workloads. Our team helps customers migrate Microsoft services to the AWS cloud while providing a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for customers to innovate and unlock new potential.

As a Business Development Specialist on the Advanced Compute team, you will create scaled GTM motions for AWS Data services to expand adoption of these services into new or existing customer portfolios.

This position will help global AWS customers adopt AWS

Roles Responsibilities

• Own the GTM strategy and execution for Advanced Compute, collaborating with teams in the field including Sales, Partners, Marketing, and other Specialists.
• Leverage your deep expertise 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 KPI’s.
• 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.

About the team

The WWSO Automotive & Manufacturing team positions AWS as the best place to run Advanced Computing workloads. Our team helps customers build Autonomous Mobility solutions on AWS cloud while providing a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure for customers to innovate and unlock new potential.

As a Business Development Specialist on the WWSO Automotive & Manufacturing team, you will create scaled GTM motions for AWS Adv Compute services to expand adoption of these services into new or existing customer portfolios.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of relevant GTM, Sales, or Consulting experience
• 5+ years of advanced computing experience
• Experience with the Auto / Manufacturing industry

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills.
• Experience communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple teams, as well as internal and external executive stakeholders.
• 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.
30+ days ago