At Amazon, we're working to be Earth's most customer-centric Company and Earth's Best Employer. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Within AWS, the AWS Industries Migration and Modernization Advisor team helps global and industry customers deliver business outcomes by migrating workloads and data centers to AWS, while applying generative AI tools and frameworks to accelerate customer value. We work closely with our technology domain specialists, sales and marketing teams, legal & program teams, solution architects, customer solution managers, partner solution managers, professional services, and customer stakeholders to deliver cloud migrations at scale.
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Migration and Modernization Advisor to create and deliver targeted sales plays that convert to pipeline opportunities, drive customer engagement and gain commercial commitment to migrate to AWS, coach and develop our migration go-to-market v-teams, and work with cloud specialists, industry sales directors, and account teams to deliver customer outcomes. You must be effective at leading technical sales teams and in working with customers to describe and quantify the business opportunity from migrating to the cloud, and the methodologies that have been developed to reduce risk and help customers achieve their outcomes. You should be comfortable working with cross functional global teams in dynamic organizations as the engagement model will have interdependencies with other teams within AWS.
The right candidate will have experience working with enterprise customers at multiple levels of seniority on identifying, sizing, and planning large scale migrations and transformation projects and leading/developing technical solutions teams. This involves a customer-obsessed and collaborative approach, strong technical acumen to provide confidence to customers and answer their questions, an ability to engage and help customers crystallize business benefits of their migrations, and demonstrating a deep understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for helping customers transform using cloud technologies.
Key job responsibilities • Lead a v-team that drives customer engagement to identify and create opportunities for large-scale cloud migrations to AWS, and the associated customer business outcomes. • Develop and run targeted sales plays that result in qualified pipeline opportunities • Embrace generative AI and develop subject matter expertise on migration modernization genAI tools, frameworks, methods, and architecture that accelerate customer value • Convey the value of AWS acceleration programs to senior customer stakeholders. • Engage senior customer technical and business decision makers on the benefits of migrating to AWS. • Help customers make the case for change and develop business cases for migrating to AWS. • Deliver workshops that help customers assess their current state, define their future state, and develop cloud migration plans. • Build compelling proposals to help customers achieve business value from migrations, then create and deliver commercial agreements to customers. • Log and track opportunities in our sales opportunity tracking system. • Conduct customer briefings, present at customer and AWS events, further AWS thought leadership in the IT and business transformation domain.
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Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of Go-To-Market, Business Development, Sales, or Consulting experience
- 5+ years of working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies, including, but not limited to, Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations experience
- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- 3+ years of working with Core Cloud Technology Services, including, but not limited to Compute, Edge, Hybrid, Security, and/or Networking experience
- Experience working with generative AI productivity tools and or generative AI software development
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience with employing marketing strategies to acquire new customers, nurture leads, drive adoption and accelerate growth
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USA, NY, New York - 162,700.00 - 220,200.00 USD annually