Senior Strategic Go to Market (GTM) Specialist, role on the Amazon Annapurna Labs ML team is responsible for driving growth with Trainium and Neuron partners, ISVs and customers, . This position focuses on understanding influential partners and solutions that will expand the scope and abilities of Trianium and develop strategies to on board them to AWS AI Chips. This position focuses on understanding business needs, identifying relevant partners or ISVs, and measuring adoption and growth potential to guide investment decisions. This role will work closely with other GTM specialists in our team, and across AWS to promote, attract and drive Trainium and Inferentia user adoption.
Key job responsibilities The ideal candidate is a deep thinker who excels in cross-functional teams and thrives in fast-paced environments. They should be adept at identifying strategic opportunities, influential ML libraries and frameworks, and establishing processes to measure ongoing investments. Key attributes include strong analytical and communication skills, excellent judgment, high standards, and the ability to think strategically while maintaining tactical focus. The successful candidate will be results-oriented with a big-picture vision, capable of inspiring others and working effectively across various business units, and customers They will have technical depth in AI/ML and a background working with academia and open source communities.
As the ideal candidate, you possess a business and technology background that enables you to lead and drive engagements with AI customers, partners, ISVs and open source communities. You have domain expertise in GenAI and are able continuously learn new technical concepts and put them in practice quickly. You have the technical depth to articulate the benefits of our deep learning and GenAI-related services and solutions to data scientists, and academics at all levels of the stack. In addition, you have a good understanding of the GenAI market trends, ecosystem, opportunities, and are passionate about market development and evangelism. You will need to be adept at interacting, communicating, and partnering with teams within AWS (product, solutions architecture, sales, marketing, and professional services) and externally with customers and 3rd party model providers.
You will need to be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as services teams, field solutions architecture, sales, marketing, as well as representing your team to executive management. You should be passionate about helping companies/partners understand best practices for operating on AWS. You will also look for patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across an industry segment or a set of customers that can help accelerate innovation.
About the team The Amazon Annapurna Labs team is responsible for building innovation in silicon and software for our AWS customers. We are at the forefront of innovation by combining cloud scale with the world’s most talented engineers. Our team covers multiple disciplines including silicon engineering, hardware design, software and business development. Along with the AI Chips Inferentia and Trainium, Annapurna Labs has delivered advancements in Networking with AWS Nitro, Amazon’s first ARM based instances with AWS Graviton and first FPGA instances in the cloud.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience presenting to both technical and non-technical executive audiences
- 7+ years of working cross functionally across several teams experience, or a MBA and 4+ years of program or project management experience
- 9+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience
- Experience in business development, account management, product management, project management, financial analysis and/or marketing
- Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations, or experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery
- Experience working with fast-moving, high-performance teams and driving innovative solutions tailored to unique business environments
- Bachelor's degree in business, data science, public administration, finance, engineering, human resources or related field, or a CPA and experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience designing and executing joint marketing plans with strategic alliance partners with global footprint
- Experience interfacing with GenAI/ML and partners, with deep understanding of GenAI market landscape, ecosystem, and ability to articulate technology and value proposition.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements
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