As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sr. Customer Solutions Manager you will be responsible for helping guide AWS customers along their multi-year journey to the cloud. In this new highly visible role you will be ensuring that all AWS teams are working together effectively and efficiently to deliver outcomes for the customer.
You will be a critical partner to our customers leveraging your experience with large scale cloud transformations and helping shepherd them through their stages of AWS adoption. Guiding the customer through the operational educational and governance aspects of a successful AWS cloud journey.
You will interface with customer and AWS leadership driving collaboration between the other core account groups (Sales Support Solutions Architecture and Professional Services) product/engineering teams and customer teams planning and supporting major customer workload migrations and innovation objectives. You will translate strategic initiatives in the account plan into executable actions working backwards from our customers key milestones. You will manage cadence by leading the reporting and tracking functions along the way. The execution of education plans roadmap to business outcome alignments Executive Briefing Sessions and go-live events and transitions are a few items owned by the CSM that are critical to the success of our customers cloud journey.
You are encouraged to think big invent and take ownership on customer challenges. You will not only bring the best of AWS/ Amazon to our customers you will proactively help solve the customers challenges through new ideas tools and mechanisms.
Successful candidates will have a strong technical background be detail driven have excellent problem solving abilities and be exemplary communicators both at the executive and project team level. You will be a peer leader have the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in negotiate and lead virtual teams. Your enterprise cloud experience and operational excellence will influence the teams decisions provide insight and help drive secure and robust solutions.
You will evangelize AWS services and influence customers for adopting them. You should be passionate about delivering a great customer experience by deploying AWS solutions and driving innovation and also be obsessed with contributing to the day-to-day management of the customers successful migration to AWS.
Key job responsibilities
* Provide input on pre- and post-sales approaches to impact customer adoption and commitments as well as closing opportunities
* Deliver complex technical projects and migration initiatives that have a significant timely impact on customer outcomes (e.g. cost reductions accelerated launches improved efficiencies)
* Conduct deep discovery to design efficient adoption plans identify acceleration gaps and solve complex customer business problems
* Implement and define effective change management approaches to drive successful cloud journeys
* Work cross-functionally with AWS service teams to address critical customer requirements
* Proactively mitigate adoption risks and track realization of customer business cases
* Share best practices and thought leadership in public forums to advance the cloud ecosystem
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- 7 years of leading large-scale technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership business case development realizing customer benefits and successful program completion experience
- 5 years of customer-facing work engaging with customer executives technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
- Bachelors degree in science technology engineering math business or equivalent
- Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams
- PMP certification or SCRUM/Agile SAFe certification
- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar
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