Account Executive, Federal Financials, WWPS

Amazon • Arlington, VA

22h • Onsite

About The Position

This role is for an Account Executive within Amazon Web Services (AWS), focusing on the US Worldwide Public Sector Federal Financial Market. The position involves driving revenue and customer engagements for a leader in the Cloud Computing business, specifically targeting Financial Services organizations that are adopting cloud computing. The Account Executive will be responsible for increasing awareness and adoption of AWS services by engaging with these organizations. The role requires a blend of sales experience, technical background, and business savvy to establish Amazon as a leading cloud platform provider. The individual will develop and manage a growing book of business, drive business and technical relationships, and close business by identifying key opportunities, markets, contract vehicles, and solutions. They will establish deep customer relationships through an understanding of the customer's mission and environment, interacting with CXO-level customers in top strategic accounts. The role also involves helping customers use AWS services to enable business transformation within their organizations and the broader financial services industries they regulate. The ideal candidate will have a business background for executive engagement and a technical background for interacting with software developers and architects, with the ability to think strategically and convey compelling value propositions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience
• 7+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience
• Must be a US Citizen.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of experience in the financial services industry

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the US WWPS Federal Financials Sales Team in helping to drive overall AWS market and technical strategy.
• Contribute to strategies, program development, investments, channel development and other important efforts to make AWS the best fit for our customers’ needs.
• Identify, engage WWPS Federal Financials accounts, using a solution selling approach.
• Maintain an accurate and robust pipeline and commit to a forecast of specific business opportunities within a time period.
• Perform the full range of sales activities from demand generation campaigns to pipeline management by engaging with customers, AWS internal resources (Professional Services, Solution architects, AWS service teams, etc.), and AWS partners.
• Understand and exploit the use of Salesforce.com and other internal Amazon systems.
• Be a thought leader and an executive relationship builder.
• Set a strategic sales plan for your target markets and ensure it's in line with the AWS strategic direction.
• Identify specific prospects/partners/channels to approach while communicating the specific value proposition for their business and use case.
• Work closely with the customer to ensure they are successful using our web services, making sure they have the technical resources required, and documenting wins in use cases and case studies.
• Understand the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the internal development team to guide the direction of our product offerings for developers.
• Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to closing new customers.
• Manage complex contract negotiations and liaison with the legal group, while handling a high volume of engagements and the fast pace of the cloud computing market.
• Leverage your knowledge of cloud computing, virtualization strategies and major vendors, hosting/data center and data storage technologies (structured and unstructured data) to assist customers in moving forward with winning web services strategies and solutions.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• sales incentives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed