Sr. Customer Solutions Manager, Aerospace and Satellite

Application deadline: Jun 21 2026

Are you passionate about helping aerospace and satellite organizations harness the power of cloud technology and AI to accelerate their missions from orbit to the edge Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) to join our Aerospace & Satellite this role you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders at commercial space satellite and aerospace companies shaping strategies that influence customer transformation initiatives and driving significant outcomes across multiple business units and lines of business through modern cloud solutions.

As a Senior CSM in the AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) Aerospace & Satellite division you will lead complex customer engagements with significant impact across multiple business outcomes. You will operate independently in dynamic complex and undefined situations using high judgment and technical acumen to navigate incomplete information make decisions despite uncertainty and drive successful customer outcomes. You will work backwards from customer goals whether thats deploying agentic AI workflows to automate satellite anomaly resolution building generative AI-powered ground system operations assistants modernizing telemetry and command platforms to fuel AI/ML insights or accelerating launch readiness with intelligent automation and own end-to-end execution across AWS teams to deliver results.

We help aerospace and satellite companies understand best practices around adopting cloud-based solutions migrating existing ground systems and mission-critical workloads implementing AI/ML capabilities for space data processing and building organizational cloud and AI fluency. The opportunity to guide space companies through the AI revolution from foundational data readiness to deploying agentic systems that autonomously execute complex satellite operations workflows is unprecedented. At AWS we value critical thinking self-motivation and the ability to deal with ambiguity. We love people who innovate use data to make decisions and can express themselves thoughtfully.

This position requires 25% - 40% travel dependent on geo and time of year.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.


Key job responsibilities
Own & Influence: Lead complex customer engagements to include Sales Support Solutions Architecture Professional Services and customer teams acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and decision makers to deliver measurable business outcomes across multiple aerospace and satellite organizations

Drive Strategic Execution: Own end-to-end execution of strategic customer initiatives including change management and adoption acceleration developing and executing cloud adoption roadmaps aligned with customer business milestones such as constellation deployments launch campaigns or new service offerings negotiating resources and priorities as needed and ensuring alignment across all stakeholder groups

Accelerate Value & Transformation: Drive significant outcomes that advance customer value and transformation objectives across multiple business units or lines of business identifying opportunities for large-scale modernization generative AI agentic AI and migrations that advance space missions and operational efficiency

Navigate Ambiguity: Operate independently in dynamic complex and undefined situations using high judgment and emerging technologies to make decisions despite incomplete information and uncertainty providing clarity and guidance to customers and internal teams

Enable & Govern: Design enablement programs AI readiness assessments governance frameworks and executive briefing sessions that prepare aerospace customers for responsible AI adoption successful cloud transformation and long-term operational excellence including real-time hands-on customer demos and workshops leveraging emerging technology

Advocate & Advise: Serve as the customers trusted strategic advisor and their voice within AWS communicating with senior customer stakeholders from technical leads to business executives providing actionable customer insights and feedback that inform AWS service improvements including aerospace-specific service teams

Build Scale & Mentor: Leverage emerging technologies to proactively build optimize and scale mechanisms that eliminate non-differentiated work and enable scalable execution across multiple customer engagements developing technical best practices and approaches that enhance team capabilities and mentoring within and across teams to elevate performance


A day in the life
As a Senior CSM on the AWS Aerospace & Satellite team youll serve as the trusted strategic advisor and central connector between space industry customers and AWS teams. Your day might include facilitating strategy sessions with customer leadership to align cloud and AI adoption roadmaps with mission objectives presenting transformation progress to senior leadership and driving end-to-end execution of strategic initiatives.

Youll develop enablement plans for generative AI adoption and workload migrations lead executive briefings and hands-on workshops showcasing aerospace use cases such as autonomous satellite health monitoring AI-driven orbital maneuver planning or intelligent Earth observation pipelines and manage critical go-live transitions. Youll also mentor team members build scalable mechanisms across engagements and navigate ambiguity with high judgment.

About the team
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.

Our Aerospace & Satellite team partners with leading commercial space companies satellite operators launch providers and aerospace innovators worldwide helping them leverage cloud technology to scale their missions reduce operational costs and drive innovation. From processing petabytes of Earth observation data to powering next-generation ground systems and enabling AI-driven space operations we believe that aerospace and satellite companies deserve world-class technology and strategic guidance to push the boundaries of whats possible and were committed to making that a reality.

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
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
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas fresh perspectives and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

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.



- 8 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
- 5 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
- 8 years of enterprise IT either as a vendor consultant or have prior experience working with or managing technical programs experience
- Experience in customer-facing work engaging with customer executives technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies

- PMP certification or SCRUM/Agile SAFe certification
- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle including design development test build deployment processes and timelines
- AWS or other cloud certification
- Experience coordinating between project teams and customers to meet unique customer requirements

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

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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 CO Denver - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually