Strategic Account Manager, Strategic Accounts

Amazon•Mountain View, CA

About The Position

The Strategic Account Manager is responsible for partnering with the customer to build strategic relationships, articulate a clear vision and generate business value. The SAM is responsible for selling at the most strategic level within the account and implementing a broad strategy for earning customer acceptance and service implementation. The SAM will work with all appropriate AWS resources (Executives, Solution Architects, Business Development, Marketing, Partners, Support, Service teams and Professional Services) to support customer interests. This includes dotted line responsibility for downstream sales and technical resources. Developing formal case studies and other forms of references highlighting activity and workloads running on AWS is core to the role. AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll 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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.

Requirements

7+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience
Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing large-scale technology deals
AWS certification, or Associate's degree or above

Responsibilities

Leading and directing the AWS customer account team.
Identifying and building trusted advisor relationships with key influencers and decision-makers, specifically CxOs, at the customer.
Working closely with internal AWS teams (executives, solution architects, business development, marketing, partners, enterprise support, service teams and professional services), as well as external SI and ISV partners, to support the best business solution for customers.
Defining a CXO relationship strategy within the customer, coordinating executive business reviews, and maintaining customer satisfaction levels.
Writing executive briefing documents for, and communicating with, the most senior executives at the company.
Managing the sales pipeline via Salesforce and facilitating all stages of a sale.
Participates and leads in the negotiation and closing of legal agreements, such as EAs, and contracts, such as PPAs.
Maintains an operating knowledge of AWS’s service catalog and is able to relate them to solving customers’ business problems.
Helps define product requirements by understanding and evangelizing the needs of customers. Feedback via PFR’s or the service teams.
Working with marketing and communications to develop formal references, PR and case studies highlighting impactful customer activity and workloads running on AWS

Benefits

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 .

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