Director Technology, Cloud and AI Innovation Team

Amazon.com, Inc.•New York, NY

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About The Position

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud ("cloud computing"). With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and many other services - gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. AWS is the leading platform for designing and developing applications for the cloud and is growing rapidly with hundreds of thousands of companies in over 190 countries on the platform. Cloud and AI Innovation Team(CAIT), is a team within AWS Global Sales (AGS) organization dedicated to maintaining AWS's position as a leading cloud provider while expanding its leadership in AI. This team's mission is to apply and extend AWS's well-established cloud practices to the AI domain. CAIT focuses on several key areas: defining and executing on Cloud and AI maturity models, enhancing system resilience, strengthening security and governance measures, developing centers of excellence, and driving business value. By adapting these proven strategies CAIT works to position AWS for continued growth and innovation in both cloud and AI technologies. CAIT leverages AWS's extensive cloud adoption experience to guide customers through the complexities of advanced Cloud and AI implementations. Recognizing parallels between early cloud adoption challenges and current AI integration hurdles, CAIT aims to accelerate enterprise transformation across industries. We focus on addressing critical challenges including business value definition, data strategy, security, workload resilience, and hybrid cloud architecture through proven innovation, execution, and scaling mechanisms. It is a leadership role to sharpen this team to bring them as close to the edge as possible while tightening the collaboration with Service teams, Specialists, GenAIIC (ProServ), Marketing, and WWPS. The ideal candidate will bring a mix of business leadership, thought leadership, transformation, and AWS skills aligned to our customers pursuing large cloud adoption initiatives/migrations but facing disruption/opportunities tied to GenAI. This role is aligned to our field sales organization and blends strategic leadership with building deep technical solutions. This is a leader of leaders role, and the ideal candidate will develop and grow customer-obsessed technical professionals who partner with customers to advise, mentor, and assist in migrating and modernizing production workloads to the Cloud. Their ability to manage specialists who provide technical thought leadership is key. Open to traveling up to 75% domestically.

Requirements

15+ years of delivering product, architecture, and engineering results
10+ years of technology leadership managing and building teams
Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical professionals
Demonstrated leadership and strong judgement in managing growth and diversity in a fast expanding, cross functional organization
Experience successfully partnering with and communicating effectively to C-suite Executives on long term, highly strategic programs
Proven track record of senior executive engagement and ability to partner with executive leaders on closing and executing large, highly technical strategic co-development and partnership engagements
Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
Experience in working with senior leadership teams both internally and externally
Experience and ability to work in a global context with customers and colleagues
Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations, IT transformation, information security and risk management for enterprise customers
Strong judgement and business acumen in determining strategic vision and running a complex technical business

Nice To Haves

A Master's Degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or equivalent technical degree
10+ years with architecting and deploying complex solutions for enterprise customers
5+ years with architecting and deploying cloud solutions
Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms
Experience architecting and deploying production cloud workloads on AWS
Track record of delivering organization transformation in support of digital technology and business outcomes
Enterprise Architecture experience, certifications, and building modern cloud strategies
Familiarity at a hands-on level with AWS technologies key to operating broadcast infrastructure workloads in the cloud, including exposure to AWS

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with field teams, service teams, area specialists and the WWSO GTM/Specialists to drive customer outcomes
Directly manage the Worldwide Technologist teams, sharpening their GenAI-specific skills, mapping their operational excellence expertise to revenue-aligned outcomes.
Accountable interface to service lines and service line executives (including WWSO); Building and curating customer to service-line relationships; Technical and service escalation oversight - single point to check / prioritize all service line activities
Serve as the AWS executive technical sponsor for big customer initiatives
Identify patterns across Geos to help AWS publish white papers, customer technical case studies, blog posts, pre-sales first call decks, and other content important to drive scale, standardization, and repeatability
At any point in time, be driving disruptive (for the customer) technology projects
Take ownership of and lead executive briefings
Build mechanisms for sharing learnings across the team

Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
The base pay for this position ranges from $241,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $350,000/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.

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