Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customersincluding the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agenciesare using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

AWS is seeking a Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) to engage directly with customers and help them realize the immense benefits derived through migrating to the cloud. This role is focused on accelerating the customer cloud journey, maximizing customer value, delivering a frictionless experience, and ensuring our customers capture the full potential and sustainable business advantages of migrating to the AWS cloud.

A CSM facilitates migration initiatives and utilizes their technical acumen, program management, organizational change management, and communication skills to influence a broad range of multidisciplinary teams - aligning sales, solution architecture, support, product, professional services, and partners to optimize customer outcomes. A CSM works with customers and AWS stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps, break them into actionable initiatives, define scope, capture and track business and technology success criteria, identify appropriate resources to execute complex technical and organizational change management plants, set goals, track and report progress, develop schedules, and communicate at all levels to deliver results. CSMs assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide critical issue management, balance trade-offs, and encourage risk-taking to maximize business value. A CSM evangelizes on behalf of AWS and influences customers at an executive level to allocate appropriate resources to achieve goals. In the end, the CSM role is responsible for the alignment of cloud transformational programs (technical, operational, organizational, and educational) that span traditional IT teams and business units, to accelerate our customers journey to the cloud.

At AWS we value critical thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to deal with ambiguity. You should bring a cool head, extensive technical background, be detail oriented, have excellent problem solving abilities, and be an exemplary verbal and written communicator. Your technical expertise and operational excellence will influence your teams decisions and help us drive robust customer solutions. We are passionate about people who innovate, use data to make decisions, and can express themselves thoughtfully. We want you to be passionate about delivering a great customer experience, and contributing to a team goal.

The successful candidate will:
Demonstrate excellent customer service skills through all levels of an organization
Maintain an in-depth knowledge and understanding of existing and developing technologies as it relates to cloud computing, to unlock opportunities for customers
Possess a strong background in change management and incorporating organizational change best practices seamlessly into project delivery
Accelerate customer adoption through education and engagement
Assist customers in identifying use cases for priority adoption of AWS as well as best practice implementations
Assist in developing long-term strategic relationships with key accounts
Manage time efficiently, meet personal goals, and work effectively with other members of the sales and marketing team
Travel moderately as necessary

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of experience leading complex, large-scale, IT or technical or engineering programs and projects
3+ years of experience in a client-facing role, leading and engaging with customers, technologists and/or partners
Experience in a lead role supporting large technology driven transformation projects
Demonstrated ability to work with both technical and non-technical individuals
Ability to work across functional teams to deliver large, complex IT solutions
Bachelor's Degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business, or equivalent experience
Ability to travel 25% to 35% as needed

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Direct experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects
Proven track record of being detail-oriented with a demonstrated ability to self-motivate and follow through on projects
Effective written and oral communication skills spanning executive leadership, business, and technical disciplines
The ability to deal with ambiguity and a changing environment, as well as a rapid work pace
Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills
Ability to credibly coordinate between project teams and customers to meet unique customer requirements
Fluency and comfort with business applications such as Word, Excel and Project
Project management certification or training such as PMP, Scrum, or other Agile experience and certification
There currently exist a number of opportunities in our Western region in multiple states.

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