Sr Sales Manager - AI , Spec Sales - Amazon Connect

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Description

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). 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 they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Description

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). 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 they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

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. These customers range from start-ups to leading web companies to Global 500 companies in industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, and high technology.

We’re looking for an accomplished Sales Leader deeply familiar with Contact Center as a Service and generative AI, to lead the CXE business (Amazon Connect) for the central US. The successful candidate will have overachieved throughout their career and built strong, deep relationships with F1000 and/or G2000 organizations. This leader will have a broad role – part market maker, part operator and part general manager – and will build a strategy focused on outcome-based selling, winning new customer segments and growing existing customer segments for the long term.

As a self-starter willing to operate in a multifaceted way, you should also have experience in market development of cloud infrastructure and/or enterprise applications.

The right candidate must possess top of the line leadership skills with the ability to execute on key business initiatives. The role will require working with the overall ecosystem to help secure lighthouse customers, drive top-line revenue for new services, and develop strategic partnerships. This is an exciting opportunity to drive the go-to-market definition and execution of AWS’s strategy for Amazon Connect for the central US.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

LOCATIONS:
Preference for Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, Atlanta, GA, New York, NY

Key job responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include driving strategic workloads to deepen business and technical relationships with customers and partners. You will invest your time in developing the high-performing team of sales experts and build mechanisms to enable the field organization to drive the day-to-day interactions that identify prospects for long-term business opportunities. You will focus on incubating new AWS Productivity Applications services, scaling existing AWS services, delivering workload/solution specific domain expertise to the broader field organization, and developing repeatable, packaged solutions to solve customer challenges.

As the voice of the customer, your findings will influence product teams to help…