Sr. WW Specialist, GenAI, Strategic Initiatives, GenAI Frameworks

Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, GenAI background, and technical skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses?

The AWS Specialist & Partner (ASP) organization provides a unified, outstanding experience to customers working with thousands of partners worldwide. Our partners are our customers and we establish long-term, durable relationships to achieve success together. Within the ASP organization, the Consulting Partner Center Of Excellence (CCOE) works across all consulting partners globally to build the capability and capacity that we need to deliver value to our field and our customers. The CCOE is responsible for setting AWS’s global partner strategy for consulting partners, including Global System Integrators, national and local System Integrators, Distributors, Solution Providers, as well as the Business Consulting & Advisory Partners. The CCOE Operations Team supports our Leaders, Partner Development Managers and our Strategic Initiatives team so they can progress the CCOE vision throughout the organization.

This position is part of the AWS Specialists and Partners Consulting Center of Excellence responsible for defining, building, and deploying targeted strategies to accelerate partner enablement of our GenAI services and solutions via collaborations with a strategic partners. You will directly engage with our partner, develop joint-GTM motions and work with internal teams to help our customers tap into new markets by utilizing GenAI. You will drive joint-GTM goals by engaging with customer, conducting external/internal advocacy, developing demos and proof-of-concepts of GenAI applications/use cases utilizing large models.

You will have the opportunity to establish new strategic initiatives with key customers/partners, define go-to-market (GTM) strategies for GenAI and lead cross-functional initiatives to expand existing markets, develop scalable programs to drive adoption, and identify new opportunities. This involves activities include market sizing, building an opportunity pipeline, working with customers to understand technical requirements for proof-of-concepts, creating content to train the field teams, driving industry thought-leadership, working with product teams to define new features, and identifying partners and potential acquisitions.

As the ideal candidate, you possess a business and technology background that enables you to lead and drive engagements with large enterprises. You have domain expertise in GenAI and key ML use cases, have technical depth to articulate the benefits of our GenAI-related services and solutions to data scientists, and line of business and C-Level executives. In addition, you have a good understanding of the GenAI market trends, ecosystem, opportunities, and are passionate about market development and evangelism. You will need to be adept at interacting, communicating, and partnering with teams within AWS (product, solutions architecture, sales, marketing, and professional services) and externally with customers and strategic partners.

You will collaborate with other teams within AWS such as product teams, field solutions architecture, sales, marketing, as well as representing your team to executive management. You should be passionate about helping customers/partners understand best practices for operating on AWS. You will also look for patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across an industry segment or a set of customers that can help accelerate innovation. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of technological transformations, as a key leader.

Key Responsibilities:
• Support the worldwide growth of AWS's GenAI services with a large, GSI Partner
• Develop extensive executive and senior management relationships within partner organization; being viewed as a "trusted advisor"
• Leverage your deep domain expertise in AI/ML or GenAI to create best in class field enablement and sales strategy.
• Support field teams in solution building for high priority customers.
• Bring market signals back to product teams to drive innovation on AWS product roadmaps.
• Own reporting and planning cadences to AWS executives on GTM plan execution.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and be able to credibly represent AWS at industry events, conferences, symposiums, etc.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree
- 7+ years of relevant GTM, Sales, or Consulting experience
- 5+ years of GenAI and/or AIML experience

Preferred Qualifications

- Exceptional interpersonal and communication (both written and verbal) skills.
- Experience communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple teams, as well as internal and external executive stakeholders.
- Established track record of credibility as a technology advisor with customer executives (e.g. CEO, COO, CIO, CTO, CMO) and Line of Business Leaders.
- Experience and success in negotiating complex deals with customers and partners.
- Experience in a heavily matrixed sales environment, including developing, implementing, managing, and executing go-to-market growth initiatives and sales motions.
- Deep understanding of cloud technologies, including public and hybrid cloud platforms.
- Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.