We are hiring an accomplished Sr Storage Specialist to support our Worldwide sales teams covering Amazon File storage service. As AWS continues to grow its presence globally the Go-To-Market Specialist will assist our internal teams by creating and orchestrating at scale programs initiatives research and enablement for our WW sales and cross functional customer teams.
A proven track record of developing and executing go-to-market (GTM) / sales programs and initiatives at scale with tangible results are critical attributes that will lead to success in the role.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will be accountable for:
- Setting strategic program direction as well as oversee tactical execution of insight based programs and go to market activities with a focus on expanding AWS market share in our top key pursuit accounts segments and verticals within the private sector
- Using your business savvy to drive revenue develop sales programs and identify new markets and opportunities. You would work directly with the most interesting and demanding customers to understand their requirements and turn them into reality
- Partnering with AWS corporate platform services and industry teams to identify workloads that impact our storage services
- A background in mapping the application of technology to customer business scenarios that help our customers understand how to improve their operational outcomes through the use of AWS storage services
- Your excellent verbal and written communication skills will allow you build sales enablement tools evangelize our platform with our enterprise and mid-market customers as well as our valued partners and serve as the primary Executive Briefing Center representative of the storage business
- Act as a trusted business advisor while deep diving into data creating high impact programs and tracking progress while tuning for desired results
- Be a leader of cross functional teams. You will guide cross functional teams to drive AWS adoption in the key workloads that use the AWS Storage portfolio
- Define drive measure manage and coach on workload focused goals across the business
The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at the CxO / VP level as well as background that enables them to easily interact with IT operations leaders software developers and infrastructure and applications architects. They should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business product and technical challenges with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions and work across the business to set vision objectives and to build consensus. A keen sense of ownership drive and desire to dive deep is a must.
About the team
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 in Go-To-Market Business Development Sales or Consulting
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 5 years of storage domain expertise preferable in cloud-native deployments (containers serverless compute)
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience identifying negotiating and executing complex legal agreements
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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.