Strategic Deal Consultant, AWS Growth Initiatives - VMCCO

Amazon • Herndon, VA

9d • $176,100 - $262,000 • Onsite

About The Position

In this role, you will architect and lead strategic, high-complexity deal pursuits that accelerate customer adoption of AWS cloud through partner-led and ProServe-led motions. Working directly with AWS senior leadership, enterprise account teams, and cross-functional stakeholders, you will own deal qualification, commercial strategy, and proposal development for large-scale migration and modernization opportunities. This is an individual contributor role with outsized strategic impact. You will operate at the intersection of customer business outcomes, partner economics, and AWS investment strategy to structure differentiated offers that win against incumbents and drive net-new customer acquisition for AWS.

Requirements

• 7+ years of Go-To-Market, Business Development, Sales, or Consulting experience
• 7+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
• 7+ years of working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies, including, but not limited to, Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations experience
• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end deal strategy for strategic opportunities, from qualification through close, ensuring AWS is positioned as the customer's preferred cloud platform.
• Architect commercial deal structures that align partner incentives, AWS investments, and customer value realization into compelling, fundable proposals.
• Lead deal qualification with rigor - applying sound judgment to prioritize pursuits that meet strategic and financial thresholds while proactively exiting low-probability opportunities early.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to AWS partners, enterprise sales teams, and senior leadership on deal positioning, competitive strategy, and investment allocation.
• Coach partners and account teams on developing industry-relevant business cases that articulate measurable outcomes for large enterprise customers.
• Navigate complex approval processes and cross-functional coordination with speed, maintaining agreed SLAs across legal, finance, and business development stakeholders.
• Surface blocked pipeline and friction points with data-driven insights, developing mechanisms that accelerate deal velocity across the #OneTeam ecosystem.
• Support rapid decision-making in fast-paced deal cycles, providing leadership visibility into deal health, risk, and resource needs.
• Build scalable processes and mechanisms that drive operational excellence and reduce resolution time for recurring deal patterns.
• Develop commercial strategies that deliver measurable business impact - quantifying cost of delay, migration economics, and long-term customer value.
• Use data to assess strategic costs, benefits, and ROI of partnership investments, translating analysis into actionable recommendations for leadership.

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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior