Senior Solutions Architect Manager, GenAI Startups

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Do you like startups Are you interested in all things Generative AI Do you enjoy leading teams and developing people Yes We have just the right role for you.
Startups are the large enterprises of the future. These new companies are founded by ambitious people who have a desire to build something meaningful and to challenge the status quo to address underserved customers or to challenge incumbents. They usually operate in an environment of scarcity: whether thats capital engineering resource or experience.

Many of the most interesting companies being created today are at the cutting edge of building Generative AI applications.
The AWS Startup Solutions Architecture team is comprised of customer-obsessed technical experts who spend their time helping these early stage startups as they build their businesses. The team makes sure that these companies can deploy the best most scalable and most secure architectures possible and that they spend as little time and money as possible doing so. As well as working with these customers directly members of this team also work with key startup influencer and investor groups such as VC funds and incubators or accelerators.

The customers you and your team will work with are some of the most exciting startups in the world; specifically those who are creating new applications and business models with Generative AI at the core.
We are looking for a technical leader passionate about building a high-performing team of customer-obsessed Solutions Architects. Your experience as a technologist will enable you to create a compelling technical vision for your team and its customers. Your experience managing teams of technical builders will allow you to hire and develop a team of world-class architects.

Youll engage with a host of other AWS leaders as you work with your team members to build plans that define how we will help early stage Generative AI startups. These plans will encompass both one-to-one engagements with specific customers as well as broadening your teams impact via one-to-few or one-to-many engagements involving multiple customers. Youll also work with other AWS teams such as marketing and training to define how your team will contribute to scaled activities such as technical content creation or public speaking.

Many of our innovations and product improvements are driven by customer feedback: youll develop and use mechanisms that ensure the insights your team gains from their engagements with customers are delivered to relevant service engineering teams so that we can keep improving our products and make sure they continue to be relevant to early stage startups.


Key job responsibilities
* Work with peers in Account Management and Business Development functions to develop comprehensive pursuit and engagement plans that meet the needs of startup customers in the Generative AI space
* Act directly as a technical executive sponsor for our most critical accounts
* Champion your areas customer needs with senior leaders (Director VP) inside AWS
* Hire on-board train and develop Solutions Architects from internal and external sources
* Develop mechanisms to ensure your team is well-positioned to deliver high value to customers and the right results for the business
* Maintain a high bar for operational excellence; define and maintain appropriate cadences for inspecting the business in your area
* Own the talent management strategy and outcomes for your team (performance management promotion pipelines leadership development mentoring programs etc.)

About the team
The startup organization at AWS comprises of experts that are passionate about startups. They engage with founders venture capitalists angel investors and work with technical product and go-to-market teams at some of the most exciting companies on the planet.

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- 12 years of management of technical enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience
- 12 years of infrastructure architecture database architecture and networking experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on any cloud service provider like Azure AWS GCP OCI etc.

- Experience architecting migrating transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- Experience working with startup customers building GenAI applications and products
- Experience working with 3rd party AI model providers to evaluate model quality/performance
- Experience deploying models on model hosting platforms and/or working with early adopters of model APIs
- Knowledge of use cases for large language models in various industries
- Expertise with general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C/C C# Python

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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 Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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