Global Account Senior Account Manager, AWS Global Strategic Partners (GSP) Sales, GSP Sales

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking talented individuals for the Global Strategic Partner (GSP) Sales team focused on growing business and shaping the cloud industry with the worlds largest most strategic multinational GSPs.

The Senior Account Manager role provides the opportunity sell business-transforming solutions to the worlds biggest and most impactful companies and shaping the future of business. You will be part of a multi-functional sales team including technical and project SMEs. You will build and oversee a portfolio of business of tens of millions of dollars. You will provide scale necessary to meet customer demand and lead the constant evolution of our customers business to exceed the revenue and non-revenue goals.

You possess a sales background that enables you to successfully build and maintain relationships drive long-term business and revenue by managing the full sales cycle to create opportunities and net-new innovative solutions advise customers on AWS cloud solutions and grow AWS usage across a defined set of customers. You will work with prospects customers partners Global Account Managers and internal teams to consistently meet and exceed sales quotas.

This is a strategic role with tremendous growth opportunities.

Key job responsibilities
Building a portfolio of business that accrues to high value for our customers and growing revenue for AWS.
Building trusted advisor relationships with key influencers and decision-makers specifically CxOs.
Supporting a CXO relationship strategy within the customer supporting executive business reviews and maintaining customer satisfaction levels.
Working closely with internal AWS teams (executives solution architects business development marketing partners enterprise support service teams and professional services) as well as external SI and ISV partners to support the best business solution for customers.
Operating with autonomy and discretion. A high degree of fast and quality decision making is required in customer engagement. Business judgment is critical.
Helping to drive the sales pipeline via Salesforce and facilitating all stages of a sale.
Participating in the negotiation and closing of legal agreements such as Enterprise Agreements Private Pricing Agreements.
Maintaining an operating knowledge of AWSs service catalog and is able to relate services to solving customers business opportunities.
Helping define product requirements by understanding and evangelizing the needs of customers. Feedback via Product Feature Requests for the service teams.

A day in the life
The Sr Account Manager (SAM) works with the Global Account Manager (GAM) to partner with the most strategic system integrator customers driving a joint disruptive strategy. They support the development and execution of account plans that not only align to but drive the customers cloud strategy. The SAM is a thought leader with an understanding of the cloud space. They help translate key technologies to drive business disruption as a builder/seller.

About the team
GSP Sales enables our GSP Customers to reinvent themselves to accelerate new revenue streams and disrupt/transform the industries they serve.
The GSP Sales team provides direct and Get To Market sales for the most strategic global systems integrator customers. GSP Sales provides a full range of sales motions and corresponding revenue helps their customers transform and modernize their legacy IT environments to run on the AWS platform and enables customers to leverage their IP and experience to build platforms/solutions that are sold to their end customers. We partner with AWS Partner Managers and Field Sales teams to support sales opportunities that take advantage of these solutions and identify new revenue streams.

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.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity and AmazeCon conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve in the cloud.


- Bachelors degree
- 5 years of full sales cycle technology sales or equivalent business development sales engineering/consulting or equivalent experience
- Experience in sales or sales management of infrastructure or cloud technology
- Knowledge of technology principles and services including infrastructure business applications data management security application platforms and consumer-facing technology

- Knowledge of AWS services including compute storage networking security databases machine learning and serverless technologies
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
- Experience working within a high-growth technology company
- Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
- Experience identifying developing negotiating and closing opportunities across a wide spectrum of customer engagement levels
- Experience establishing credibility quickly with senior level executives across organizations
- Worked with Global Systems Integrators

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments restricted stock units (RSUs) and sales incentives. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at GA Atlanta - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually
USA IL Chicago - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually
USA MA Boston - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 157100.00 - 212600.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually