Sr. Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, GameLift, AWS Games
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) which is responsible for driving revenue adoption and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customers most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to- market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO youll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big delivering exceptional results for our customers and working across AWS as #OneTeam.
Visual Computing Specialist Solutions Architects combine technical skills in content creation business acumen and technical sales skills. They are focused on supporting customers throughout the engagement lifecycle and work closely with the teams that support implementation including AWS Professional Services and Partners. SSAs unblock customers and help them get to production faster. Joining AWS as a Specialist Solutions Architect will give you opportunities to work on interesting and challenging problems collaborate with a group of skilled practitioners focused on delivering outcomes for our customers and be part of a diverse and inclusive community committed to being Earths Best Employer.
The WWSO Visual Compute team is responsible for creating and driving the technical strategies to help customers bring content creation to next-generation cloud-based production pipelines. You will partner with our Go-To- Market (GTM) and engineering teams to provide solutions to solve customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of cloud technology in customer workflows.
As a Specialist Solutions Architect for AWS Games you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to redefine how customers solve their challenging problems in deploying and scaling their game and application streaming workloads at global scale. You are a leader for specialists architects partners and account teams around the world and set direction and standards for how we solve customer problems. You partner with technical and business teams across AWS and bring the voice of the customer into our product development roadmap. You will help our team see the big picture and set the plan so the worlds most customer obsessed technical teams can make history.
Key job responsibilities
* Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
* Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers largest and most critical business challenges.
* Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs whitepapers reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit AWS re: Invent etc.
* Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts solutions and initiatives.
* Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials to help them understand how to integrate Amazon GameLift solutions including dedicated game server hosting (GameLift Servers) and cloud game streaming (GameLift Streams) into customers architectures and distribution channels.
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- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
- 6 years of game industry experience
- 5 years of developer experience with streaming/cloud gaming workloads.
- Proven ability to understand streaming game engine user requirements and map these to solutions.
- Experience in deployment tuning and management of streaming game engine technologies in a multi-tenant environment.
- Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
- Experience designing building operating and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- AWS certification such as AWS Solutions Architect or a similar cloud certification
- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). 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 CA San Diego - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA CA San Francisco - 176600.00 - 239000.00 USD annually
USA CA Santa Monica - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
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