AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) 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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class specialist support is critical to customer success
- Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential?
- Do you have the business savvy, Database/ Analytics /AI background, and sales skills necessary to help companies transform their industries by positioning Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the Data & AI service provider of choice?
- Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses?
- Do you want to join the specialty sales organization, one of the fastest-growing teams within AWS?
As an Database Sales Specialist, you will be at the forefront of driving adoption and revenue growth for AWS's cutting-edge services. Your role will involve identifying high-value customer opportunities within a specific territory, and engaging with AWS customers to understand their needs and align them with AWS solutions. You will leverage your consultative expertise to become a trusted advisor, guiding customers in embedding and deploying AWS solutions to unlock new value streams and solve key business problems using powerful Data & AI capabilities.
With a passion for developing high-potential opportunities and executing effective strategies, you will own the full-cycle sales engagement plan, from identifying qualified leads to realizing revenue. You will understand a customer’s business initiatives, help craft account plan to achieve those initiatives, identify and drive opportunity win plans to enabling business initiatives, ensuring successful launch to realize both customer vision and AWS revenue. You will earn trust with Line of Business, and IT personas. You will understand detailed business drivers in your forecast, and intentionally work the best opportunities that maximize your ability to hit revenue goals.
You will maintain an in-depth knowledge of AWS's Data & AI services and relevant cross-functional areas to build strong relationships with customers and Partners. By driving the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, you will play a pivotal role in propelling AWS's revenue growth while helping customers stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. You exercise learn & be curious to articulate AWS strategy and the services we offer to accelerate these workloads. You conduct compelling executive conversations on the transformational possibilities of Data, while also being capable of helping our customers navigate which services to evaluate for their use-cases. You can describe the “why” and “what” of Database use case and technical solutions at a 200-level, with the detailed “how” being provided by solution architects.
Key job responsibilities
- Accelerate customer adoption by defining and implementing tech domain specific GTM strategies within your assigned accounts and technology domain. Your strategies will leverage AWS Sales and our partner ecosystem.
- Ideate with Line of Business and C-suite leaders, building trust with your deep technical expertise, and following through to help solve their most compelling business problems.
- Act as the front line within your accounts for all specialist customer engagement in your tech domain.
- Create & articulate compelling value propositions that address specific needs of your customers.
- Build and innovate: Co-Develop GTM motions on new product launches and work with product teams on the creation of innovative new services.
- Spearhead market expansion by pinpointing new customer segments and use cases
- Collaborate cross-functionally to continuously strengthen AWS's Data & AI value proposition
- Gather voice-of-customer insights to inform product roadmaps and enhance the customer experience
- Drives conversations to build credibility and earn trust with the account teams and customers.
- Drive sales efforts spanning multiple lines of business with decision-making authority and budget ownership.
- Engage systems integrators and closely collaborate with AWS partners to deliver maximum customer value
A day in the life
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Graduate, with >6 years of Database / Cloud / Software Sales or Services experience
MBA with Database Sales experiences. Having worked in the Cloud sales/ services role would be an additional advantage
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