Senior Worldwide Specialist, Amazon Athena, Data & AI GTM

Amazon.com, Inc.•New York, NY

75d

About The Position

Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Containers background, and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Analytics team as a Principal GTM (Go-to-Market) Specialist. GTM Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together we provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges. As an Athena/Trino Specialist, you will help customers build modern, cloud-native applications on AWS. You will develop and execute go-to-market plans that drive adoption of Athena worldwide and the Trino engine adoption within the EMR service. You will help AWS's largest customers adopt and optimize their big data applications to reduce operational overhead and increase business agility and their pace of innovation. You will work directly with the AWS service teams to bring the voice of the customer to the service roadmap. You will build go-to-market plans that scale through the AWS sales field, AWS Partners, and AWS programs across the globe.

Requirements

5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
Bachelor's degree
Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience selling enterprise software or cloud-based applications
Experience explaining complex technical concepts to various business and technical audiences
2 years experience taking an SQL analytics platform to market targeting various personas including developers and data engineers as well as executives.

Nice To Haves

Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements
Experience developing, deploying and managing analytics and big data products at scale
Experience interfacing with customers (Enterprise, SMB, and Startups) and ability to convert customer requirements to high level architecture solutions to build on

Responsibilities

Own the go-to-market plan for Amazon Athena and EMR Trino, in collaboration with other organizations as needed to achieve goals. This includes driving the overall sales and technical strategy; defining the market segments, customer base, and industry verticals we can target; setting a business development plan for target markets that's aligned with AWS's strategic direction; executing the strategy in collaboration with key internal stakeholders (e.g. sales teams, service teams, legal, support, etc.); scaling the plan through field sellers, AWS Partners, the open source community, and other channels.
Work with customers and partners building Athena applications. Develop customer pipelines that will drive growth in your target market. Work with software and consulting partners to identify new opportunities and solve customer challenges to win deals.
Incubate and launch new services or key features. As we launch new services, drive a plan to ensure sales and partner readiness. Work with the team to secure initial customers to use as "lighthouse" references at launch. Understand the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the internal development teams to guide the direction of our product offerings.