,Strategic Accounts
Job Summary
The Senior Manager leads a Business Development (BD) team within the AWS CSAT organization driving cloud adoption across enterprise and digital-native business customers. This is a people-first leadership role that requires strong commercial judgment executive-level influence and the ability to build and grow high-performing sales teams. The role reports to an business development director and manages BD professionals across multiple territories.
Key job responsibilities
Build and lead a high-performance enterprise BD team with clear territory assignments account coverage and quota frameworks.
Own full-cycle hiring and talent development; coach team members and maintain a high performance bar.
Develop and execute multi-year account strategies for a portfolio of enterprise and digital-native accounts.
Build trusted relationships with C-suite stakeholders at customer and AWS leadership levels.
Align cross-functional teams Sales Marketing Channel & Partners Legal Solution Architecture for cohesive go-to-market execution.
Lead complex commercial negotiations; act as escalation point for non-standard deal terms.
Drive disciplined pipeline development with accurate forecast visibility across the team.
Represent AWS externally as a thought leader; evangelize cloud transformation in targeted industries.
Operate with high autonomy to resolve business and customer issues; write clear compelling business documents.
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- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including Marketing Product Management Customer Service Operations Legal Finance and Senior Leadership
- Speak write and read fluently in English
- Bachelors degree in computer science engineering mathematics or equivalent or Bachelors degree in business administration finance economics computer science data science engineering or other related field
- 10 years of experience leading commercial sales or business development teams in technology or cloud industries.
- 5 years of direct people management experience including hiring and developing quota-carrying BD or sales professionals.
- Proven track record of consistent business growth across enterprise (ENT) and/or digital-native (DNB) customer segments.
- Ability to build and influence C-level and VP-level relationships; navigate complex multi-party deal structures.
- Knowledge of AWS services market segments customer base and industry verticals
- Experience in specific technology domain areas like software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data and analytics
- Masters degree in management business administration economics engineering marketing or Bachelors degree
- Experience presenting ideas to various levels of an organization to gain support for initiatives
- Substantial experience with cloud platforms IoT data & analytics Generative AI (GenAI) and/or AI/ML solutions.
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