Are you a customerobsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential Do you have the business savvy Contact Center background and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers Do you love building new strategic and datadriven businesses
The AWS Specialist Team is made up of deep domain experts who work directly with customers to solve their most complex challenges. We are part of the Account Team responsible for account planning opportunity identification and pursuit. We stay closely connected to our customers and bring valuable data and insights to our product teams strengthening the product roadmap.
Our team is at its best when a customer is thinking big and needs specialized experience to innovate for their business.
AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small and midmarket accounts to enterpriselevel customers including public sector.
Join AWS Amazon Connect Specialist team as a Senior Sales Specialist!
Key job responsibilities
Accelerate customer adoption by defining and implementing tech domain specific GTM strategies within your assigned accounts and technology domain. Your strategies will leverage AWS Sales and our partner ecosystem.
Ideate with Line of Business and Csuite leaders building trust with your deep technical expertise and following through to help solve their most compelling business problems.
Act as the front line within your accounts for all specialist customer engagement in your tech domain.
Create & articulate compelling value propositions that address specific needs of your customers.
Build and innovate: CoDevelop GTM motions on new product launches and work with product teams on the creation of innovative new services.
Partner with the worlds biggest system integrators to deliver on customer projects.
A day in the life
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Work/Life Balance
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Inclusive Team Culture
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About the team
The Worldwide Specialist Organization CXE (Customer Experience Engagement) team positions AWS as the best place to run contact center workloads.
Our team helps customers migrate contact center operations to the AWS cloud while providing a secure reliable and scalable infrastructure for customers to innovate and unlock new potential.
As a Area Specialist on the team you will define and execute area specific GTM motions for CXE services to expand their adoption into new and/or existing customer portfolios.
This position will help AWS customers adopt Amazon Connect and adjacent services to run their contact centers effectively on the AWS cloud.
Relevant GTM Sales or Consulting expertise
Solid Contact Center technology domain experience
English language proficiency
Exceptional interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills with experience communicating to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Established track record of credibility as a technology advisor with customer executives (e.g. CEO COO CIO CTO CMO) and/or Line of Business Leaders.
Experience and success in negotiating complex deals with customers and partners.
Experience in a heavily matrixed sales environment including developing implementing managing and executing gotomarket growth initiatives and sales motions.
Deep understanding of cloud technologies including public and hybrid cloud platforms.
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