Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media Services provides advanced media services including encoding transcoding acquisition distribution monetization personalization and augmentation. We are an integral part of delivering media and entertainment to the worlds largest events and audiences. We support technology developed by pioneers such as Elemental and Twitch to deliver immersive interactive and engaging video experiences at scale anywhere anytime on any device.
The Go-To-Market-Specialist (GTMS) will be responsible for defining building and deploying scalable programs and specific go-to-market strategies that drive the acceleration of customer adoption and support sales activities for our customers and partners. The Edge Media Services GTMS will facilitate the enablement of business development sales and solution architecture with specific customer centric value propositions. They will act as the voice of the customer/partner relaying requirements to the product management and development teams. The GTMS will be a part of a global team working closely with other business development sales marketing and partner teams. This position will also work across domains to include adjacent services like content delivery (CloudFront) application acceleration networking/hybrid edge security and others to drive vision around solutions to common challenges use cases and outcomes that help customers innovate simplify and execute media workflows in the AWS cloud.
Key job responsibilities
In this role we are seeking expertise and experience in Media monetization and advertising workflows.
Experience with Elemental Media Package Elemental Media Tailor and advertising/monetization ecosytem partners is highly desireable.
The GTM function creates and executes awareness and demand generation campaigns to educate and enable our field sellers to successfully engage customers. GTMs create collateral sales plays and repeatable/scalable motions.
GTMs foster interest and demand for our services with innovative promotional ideas interactive 1:1 and 1:many events and sessions marketing outreach email campaigns and other means.
GTMs track important metrics about sales funnel activity campaign engagement sales wins and other impacts of our activities.
GTMs interact frequently with Product & Service teams to understand and influence product roadmaps feature requirements pricing and commercial terms and provide voice of the customer/field inputs.
GTMs should be creative innovative self-starters that bring subject matter and industry knowledge to bear on creating growth for our services.
About the team
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy recruiting development and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.
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- 5 years of developing negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- 5 years of professional or military experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience identifying negotiating and executing complex legal agreements
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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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.