Sr Customer Solutions Manager, Strategic Accounts
DESCRIPTION
We are seeking a Sr. Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) to join our global Strategic Accounts organization. In this new, highly visible role, you will be responsible for helping guide AWS customers along their multi-year journey to the cloud, ensuring that all AWS teams are working together effectively and efficiently to deliver outcomes for the customer.
Our team is committed to helping enterprise technology 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.
If you are excited about the prospect of using your cloud architecture experience to assist our most valuable customers, tackling challenging problems, have a hand in shaping the future of cloud adoption, enhancing and growing your own skills, and having fun, then we would love to hear from you.
You will be a critical partner to our customers, leveraging your experience with large scale cloud transformations and helping shepherd them through their stages of AWS adoption. Guiding the customer through the operational, educational, and governance aspects of a successful AWS cloud journey.
You will interface with customer and AWS leadership, driving collaboration between the other core account groups (Sales, Support, Solutions Architecture, and Professional Services), product/engineering teams, and customer teams, planning and supporting major workload migrations. You will translate strategic initiatives in the account plan into executable actions, working backwards from our customers key milestones. You will manage cadence by leading the reporting and tracking functions along the way. The execution of education plans, roadmap to business outcome alignments, Executive Briefing Sessions, and go-live events and transitions are a few items owned by the CSM that are critical to the success of our customer’s cloud journey.
You are encouraged to think big, invent and take ownership on customer challenges. You will not only bring the best of AWS/Amazon to our customers, you will proactively help solve the customer’s challenges through new ideas, tools and mechanisms.
Successful candidates will have a strong technical background, be aware of details that matter, have excellent problem solving abilities, and be exemplary communicators both at the executive and project team level. You will be a peer leader, have the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, negotiate and lead virtual teams. Your enterprise cloud experience and operational excellence will influence the team’s decisions, provide insight, and help drive secure and robust solutions.
You will evangelize AWS services and influence customers for adopting them. You should be passionate about delivering a great customer experience by deploying AWS solutions and driving innovation, and also be obsessed with contributing to the day-to-day management of the customers successful migration to AWS.
Must be able/willing to travel 20-30% (some global but primarily specific to the Bay Area). When not prioritizing customer facing interactions, our teams are prioritizing in-office collaboration. This role can be based out of Palo Alto, Santa Clara, San Jose, or San Francisco.
Key job responsibilities
You will establish a deep understanding of your customer’s business vision, culture and processes, and evangelize AWS services and influence customers to adopt the right solution at the right time. Customer Solution Managers (CSM) are responsible for four focus areas:
1/Accelerating AWS Adoption through Delivery and Execution
2/Identify & Align on Strategic Opportunities: CSMs work with the Customer Account team to work backwards from the customer to identify and pursue strategic cloud opportunities. These strategic cloud opportunities can include but are not limited to large-scale migrations, data and analytics, digital innovation, high performance computing, product innovation and business agility. CSMs provide support to these opportunities via a number of mechanisms including TCO analysis and business case assessments.
3/Customer Enablement, you will serve as the customer’s cloud journey coach and be the voice of the customer within AWS, evangelizing customer needs to AWS leadership, product, and engineering teams
4/Implement governance structures to effectively govern both our partnership with the customer, and the customer’s adoption of AWS
These interconnected focus areas will enable CSMs to effectively drive cloud adoption, pursue strategic growth opportunities, and empower customer success. By aligning CSM activities, goals, and opportunities under these focus areas, the Strategic Accounts CSM team can ensure a disciplined, customer-centric approach that maximizes business impact and revenue realization for AWS.
CSMs play a critical role supporting account teams/customers throughout the sales process, the customer's cloud transformation journey whilst consistently demonstrating measurable value to the customer regardless of engagement model.
CSMs are able to effectively coordinate cross-functional resources, drive disciplined project delivery, and quantify the tangible business benefits that customers realize through their cloud transformation initiatives. This holistic approach to customer engagement, coupled with the CSM's deep understanding of customers and AWS capabilities; positions CSMs as trusted advisors who can guide customers through every stage of their cloud journey - from initial strategy and planning to migration, modernization, and ongoing optimization.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job 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.
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About the team
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience
- 2+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe certification
- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar
- Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/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.