Manager, Customer Success Specialist, Connect Specialty Sales

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.

AWS is one of Amazons fastest growing businesses servicing millions of customers in more than 190 countries reshaping the way global enterprises consume information technology and powering the developers who are building the next generation of global industry leaders. AWS customers include some of the most innovative startups like Netflix Pinterest Airbnb and Instagram as well as some of the largest global enterprises like Shell International Unilever Hitachi Sharp Bristol-Myers Squibb and Samsung.
The Customer Solutions Management role is a function that owns our customers journey throughout the adoption go live and insures we are continuing to provide value as we increase retention and expand the customers footprint on AWS. The team guides our customers through the technology operational educational and governance aspects of a successful AWS cloud journey. They interface with customer and AWS leadership driving collaboration between other core account groups.

In this role you will be technically capable and credible in your own right as well as effective in shaping the customer journey and skills of your team. You must enjoy learning and introducing new concepts in order to help colleagues and customers embrace and adopt new technology. Furthermore thought leadership in terms of looking beyond the technology and helping to develop out mechanism to help our customers be successful with AWS.

The ideal candidate will have enterprise sales and/or consulting experience in Contact Center as a Service or similar SaaS solutions in areas such as telecommunications VoIP and/or or CRM/ERP applications. You will be passionate about customer experience and advocacy and bring the voice of the customer into the product development process. You will enjoy solving complex problems; our customers will rely on your guidance to scale Connect across their complex global businesses overcoming technical and organizational roadblocks on the way.
Today Connect is one of AWSs fastest growing services leveraging native generative AI capabilities to improve customer and employee experiences. You will lead cross-functional field teams in sales solutions architecture partner sales product and will work at the CxO level with customers to maximize the value of their Connect investment.

Key job responsibilities
As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Customer Success Specialist Manager you will be responsible for helping guide AWS customers along their multi-year journey to the 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 workload migrations. 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 SDM 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 various 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.

About the team
The Amazon Connect Customer Success Specialist (CSS) will create a matrix environment with resources from our partner community Professional Services AWS account teams and Connect service team members to drive customer success. A CSS will run attach service plays customer engagements to drive adoption of migrating services work with our partner community to scale and align key members of the services team for optimization and retention efforts. Last a CSS will uncover cases that align to Connect unique business value to be shared with AWS Marketing.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

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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
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Math Operations Research or a related field
- Knowledge of distributed applications and the engineering lifecycle from conception to delivery
- Experience in 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 in large-scale IT deployment or programming

- Experience implementing AWS/cloud services
- Experience in a customer-facing role engaging with customer executives technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies
- Experience managing large technical programs particularly at high growth startups or large enterprises
- Experience working in a sales organization

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $152100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $262800/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.