Senior AppMod GTM Specialist, Media and Entertainment

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to be the pioneer and widely recognized leader in Cloud Computing. Our web services provide IT infrastructure in-the-cloud that is used by hundreds of thousands of developers and businesses around the world. This is a role in the Media and Entertainment Go-To-Market (GTM) focusing on Application Modernization, Container Services, Serverless, Opensource technology skills and Migration/Modernization experience.

This role is responsible for partnering with leading strategic Media and Entertainment customers and enable them to better adopt the portfolio of App Mod, Containers, Serverless, Opensource and Migration and Modernization that includes:
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and AWS App Mesh.

As a part of this team, you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of the how Media and Entertainment customers are deploying cloud-native workloads in Containers and further establish Amazon as the leader in the cloud computing space. You will also demonstrate Customer Obsession, representing the voice of the customer as you work with product teams across AWS to evolve AWS services.

As a part of the team responsible for GTM of the Container Services portfolio for AWS, you will also develop scalable motions to establish new business in target market segments, support, and enable the global field organization to drive their day-to-day customer interactions. You will be the single-threaded owner for developing and executing the GTM plan for Media and Entertainment customer segment as well as the extension of the AWS Container Services product team for this set of customers, understanding their use cases, gathering customer feature requests and feedback, and influencing product direction.

You will use your business savvy to identify new workload patterns and use cases, drive lighthouse wins, and develop and execute scalable adoption programs. Your background in cloud-native applications will help customers understand how to improve their business outcomes using the container orchestration services provided by AWS. Your excellent verbal and written communication skills will allow you effectively influence business leaders in the customer base and in AWS, build sales enablement tools, and evangelize the AWS portfolio with our enterprise customers.

You will also identify and drive strategic partnerships with ISVs and SIs, working backwards from customer requirements. The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive CxO/VP level engagements, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with software developers and architects. She/he should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions, and work cross-organizationally to build consensus.

This is a great opportunity to work in a high-performing team of global business development, GTM experts surrounded by world-class Product and Engineering, and Solutions Architecture teams. You will focus on incubating new AWS Container Services, delivering workload-/solution-specific domain expertise to the broader field organization (account managers and solutions architects), and developing repeatable solutions to solve customer challenges. To be successful, you will need to analyze and determine key customer insights from business drivers, market segment trends, customer feedback, and operating metrics.

Your background in cloud-friendly, scalable architectures will help customers understand how to scale their infrastructure on the cloud. Your excellent verbal and written communication skills will allow you build sales enablement tools, evangelize our platform with our enterprise customers, start-ups and valued partners. The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at the CxO/VP level, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with software developers and architects.

He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions, and work cross-organizationally to build consensus.

Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required. Domain and working experience with different Media and Entertainment segments (corporations, studios, subsidiaries) would be essential for this role. A keen sense of Ownership, Insist on Highest Standards, and Bias for Action is a must and are hallmarks of a successful person in this role.

Experience in taking new products or services to launch, and developing and executing a GTM strategy to drive adoption across multiple customer…