Account Manager - Greenfield, Financial Services (banking, Wealth Management, Payments, Insurance)

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · CA, ON +1 · Sales, Advertising, & Account Management

This is an Account Manager role focused on driving cloud adoption and revenue growth within the financial services sector in Canada. The role involves building strategic relationships with C-suite executives and technical leaders at financial institutions, including banks, insurers, and fintech companies. Responsibilities include developing territory plans, collaborating with internal teams like Solutions Architects and AI/ML Specialists, and managing sales pipelines. While the role involves discussing generative AI and digital transformation, the core function is sales and account management, not direct AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive revenue growth and new customer acquisition within the Canadian financial services greenfield segment, targeting accounts across insurance, capital markets, wealth management, and fintech while meeting or exceeding quarterly revenue targets
  2. Develop and execute territory coverage plans centered around financial services vertical-specific strategies, including domain-driven narratives around mainframe modernization, generative AI adoption, data platform transformation, and regulatory compliance
  3. Build and maintain strategic relationships with key accounts at the executive and vice president level, becoming a trusted advisor on cloud-enabled financial services transformation and connecting business outcomes to AWS capabilities
  4. Collaborate cross-functionally with Solutions Architects, Specialists in AI/ML and Security, and Customer Success teams to accelerate customer adoption and ensure post-sale partnership success
  5. Develop and manage a robust sales pipeline leveraging domain insights, Innovation Days, executive engagement programs, and partner relationships to extend reach and drive adoption

Skills

Required

  • Experience in technology sales selling enterprise software, networking, infrastructure, managed hosting services, or cloud computing services
  • Experience driving new business in greenfield accounts at the C-suite level or equivalent
  • 5+ years of full sales cycle, technology sales or equivalent business development, sales engineering/consulting or equivalent experience
  • Knowledge of technology platforms within the financial services context, including IT infrastructure, data centers, cloud services, and cloud adoption strategies

Nice to have

  • Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing large-scale technology deals
  • Background in financial services sales or consulting

What the JD emphasized

  • drive revenue growth
  • new customer acquisition
  • quarterly revenue targets
  • strategic relationships
  • trusted advisor
  • accelerate customer adoption
  • robust sales pipeline