Sr Customer Solutions Manager , Strategic

Are you customer obsessed speak cloud and want to help customers build at unbelievable scale Come join a collaborative and talented team dedicated to helping customers achieve new possibilities leveraging AWS. 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 this 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 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 aware of details that matter 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.

Role could require travel depending on candidate location 25-35%.



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Internal job description
Are you customer obsessed speak cloud and want to help customers build at unbelievable scale Come join a collaborative and talented team dedicated to helping customers achieve new possibilities leveraging AWS. 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 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 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.

- 5 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
- 2 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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.

Pursuant to the San Francisco 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 $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/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.