Senior Sales Area Leader, Canada Startups, AWS Startups
Senior Sales Area Leader, Canada Startups, AWS Startups
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04-06-2025
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a complete set of cloud services that enable all companies from startups to enterprises to run virtually everything in the cloud including mobile applications big data analytics AI/ML platforms and microservices/serverless infrastructures. Startups which are primarily born-in-the-cloud now represent a critically important and growing subset of customers to AWS. Startups have unique needs priorities and growth trajectories that distinguish them from traditional businesses and require different engagement strategies and sales motions from seller teams to effectively acquire grow and retain them on the AWS platform.
As AWS continues to grow we seek a Startup Area Sales Leader for Canada to own operate and define strategy for the fast growing early mid and late stage startups. Canada is the 4th largest Startup ecosystem in the world and 3rd in Generative AI funding. Toronto and Montreal continue to be global leaders in AI/ML. Vancouver Kitchener-Waterloo and Ottawa are also top 100 cities globally for Startups. The Startup team in Canada has local coverage across major cities (including bilingual teams in Quebec) with specialized focus on AI Fintech and ISVs. You will be responsible for building and developing a team account executives and sales managers driving revenue and user adoption and ensuring new startups select AWS as their primary cloud provider. Your team will also be responsible for driving revenue growth and retention of existing AWS startup customers as well as migrations to AWS of new startup customers currently running their infrastructure elsewhere.
The sales leader will align closely with go-to-market strategy and business development leaders who are driving strategic support global co-programming and portfolio engagement to help drive top and middle of funnel outcomes and accelerate seller cycles in the field. You will also work with cross functional teams in marketing solutions architecture and business development as well as cross-geo with your counterparts in other countries around the globe to implement a globally consistent coverage model go-to-market strategy and goals for the AWS startup business. You will be part of the Canadian Startup ecosystem including building a network across Founders VCs Accelerators and Incubators nationwide. You will be at the heart of latest trends like artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML) serverless and IoT. Your customers leverage state-of-the-art technologies on AWS to innovate and become the next disrupters like todays Shopify Slack Instacart or Lyft.
To be successful in this role you need to be passionate about startups and a self-starter with entrepreneurial spirit (a builder!) who is prepared to work in a fast-paced environment execute against ambitious goals and consistently embrace the Amazon Culture.
- 10 years of technology related sales business development or equivalent experience
- 5 years of sales management experience
- Experience in management of large complex enterprise accounts or equivalent
- Masters degree or equivalent
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
As AWS continues to grow we seek a Startup Area Sales Leader for Canada to own operate and define strategy for the fast growing early mid and late stage startups. Canada is the 4th largest Startup ecosystem in the world and 3rd in Generative AI funding. Toronto and Montreal continue to be global leaders in AI/ML. Vancouver Kitchener-Waterloo and Ottawa are also top 100 cities globally for Startups. The Startup team in Canada has local coverage across major cities (including bilingual teams in Quebec) with specialized focus on AI Fintech and ISVs. You will be responsible for building and developing a team account executives and sales managers driving revenue and user adoption and ensuring new startups select AWS as their primary cloud provider. Your team will also be responsible for driving revenue growth and retention of existing AWS startup customers as well as migrations to AWS of new startup customers currently running their infrastructure elsewhere.
The sales leader will align closely with go-to-market strategy and business development leaders who are driving strategic support global co-programming and portfolio engagement to help drive top and middle of funnel outcomes and accelerate seller cycles in the field. You will also work with cross functional teams in marketing solutions architecture and business development as well as cross-geo with your counterparts in other countries around the globe to implement a globally consistent coverage model go-to-market strategy and goals for the AWS startup business. You will be part of the Canadian Startup ecosystem including building a network across Founders VCs Accelerators and Incubators nationwide. You will be at the heart of latest trends like artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML) serverless and IoT. Your customers leverage state-of-the-art technologies on AWS to innovate and become the next disrupters like todays Shopify Slack Instacart or Lyft.
To be successful in this role you need to be passionate about startups and a self-starter with entrepreneurial spirit (a builder!) who is prepared to work in a fast-paced environment execute against ambitious goals and consistently embrace the Amazon Culture.
- 10 years of technology related sales business development or equivalent experience
- 5 years of sales management experience
- Experience in management of large complex enterprise accounts or equivalent
- Masters degree or equivalent
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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