Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Data & AI 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 Amazon Specialists and Partners (ASP) Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports team as a Business Development Specialist!
Key job responsibilities The Amazon Specialists and Partners team is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the world's largest media and entertainment companies. 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. ASP teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architects. As part of ASP, 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.
A day in the life Roles Responsibilities • Own the GTM strategy and execution for analytics services in Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports, collaborating with teams in the field including Sales, Partners, Marketing, and other Specialists. • Leverage your deep expertise in your analytics technologies 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.
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The WWSO team for Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports (MEGS) is responsible for aligning AWS services and solutions to the unique needs of industry customers. We work closely with some of the most innovative customers in Media & Entertainment to help them innovate in their most strategic business functions. We are hiring an accomplished Senior GTM Specialist to drive the strategy and execution of our activities that propel the growth of analytics services and enable new capabilities for our customers, such as deploying Generative AI workloads, on AWS infrastructure.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of Go-To-Market, Business Development, Sales, or Consulting experience
- 2+ years of solving problems with technology in the Media & Entertainment Industry experience
- 5+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
- Experience explaining complex technical concepts to various business and technical audiences
- Strong understanding of Analytics technologies and use cases.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience engaging and influencing senior executives, demonstrating a strong familiarity with decision-making processes in enterprise customers
- Experience developing and executing sales strategies, tactics, plans, processes, systems and programs
- Knowledge of cloud computing technologies
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, San Francisco - 162,700.00 - 220,200.00 USD annually USA, CA, Santa Monica - 147,900.00 - 200,100.00 USD annually USA, NY, New York - 162,700.00 - 220,200.00 USD annually