Sr. Sales Specialist - Storage, Retail, Restaurants, and Consumer Packaged Goods

Description

As an AWS Storage Sales Specialist, you will be at the forefront of driving adoption and revenue growth for AWS's storage services. Your role will involve identifying high-value customer opportunities within a specific territory and engaging with AWS customers to understand their storage needs and align them with AWS storage solutions. You will leverage your consultative expertise to become a trusted advisor, guiding customers in embedding and deploying AWS storage solutions to unlock new value streams and support high value workloads. With a passion for developing high-potential opportunities and executing effective strategies, you will own the full-cycle sales engagement plan, from identifying qualified leads to realizing revenue. You will understand a customer's business initiatives, help craft account plans to achieve those initiatives, identify and drive opportunity win plans to enabling those business initiatives, and ensure successful launch to realize both customer vision and AWS revenue. You will earn trust with IT, Infrastructure executives and Line of Business leaders. You will understand detailed business drivers in your forecast and intentionally work the best opportunities that maximize your ability to hit revenue goals.

Furthermore, you will maintain an in-depth knowledge of AWS's storage services and relevant cross-functional areas to build strong relationships with customers. By driving the adoption of advanced storage technologies, you will play a pivotal role in propelling AWS's revenue growth while helping customers stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. You can describe the "why" and "what" of storage use cases and technical solutions at a 200-level, with the detailed "how" being provided by solution architects. You can conduct compelling executive conversations on the transformational possibilities of cloud storage and data management, resulting in subsequent meetings with the wider team.

Key job responsibilities

• Accelerate customer adoption by defining and implementing GTM strategies within your assigned accounts and technology domain.

• Ideate with Line of Business and C-suite leaders, building trust with your deep technical expertise, and following through to help solve their most compelling business problems.

• Drive sales efforts spanning multiple lines of business with decision-making authority and budget ownership.

• Act as the customer front line Storage domain specialist within your accounts

• Partner with customers to run assessments of their on-premises and cloud storage environments, lead technical discovery sessions and position AWS Storage services to support critical workflows.

• Map the application of technology to customer business scenarios that help our customers understand how to improve their operational outcomes through the use of AWS storage services.

• Develop and deliver compelling ROI & TCO proposals to drive adoption of AWS Storage Solutions.

• Internally evangelize the benefits of our Storage services, programs and industry-specific solution benefits to scale your business through our Core account managers.

• Engage systems integrators and closely collaborate with AWS partners to deliver maximum customer value.

• Gather voice-of-customer insights to inform product roadmaps and enhance the customer experience.

A day in the life

You’re surrounded by innovation. You’re empowered with a lot of ownership. Your growth is accelerated. The work is challenging. You have a voice here and are encouraged to use it. Your experience and career development is in your hands. We live our leadership principles every day. At Amazon, it's always "Day 1".

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Why AWS

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Work/Life Balance

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience in direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives

• Experience developing and executing sales strategies, tactics, plans, processes, systems and programs

• 5+ years of technology-related sales, business development, or sales engineering/consulting experience

• 7+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience

• 5+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields

• Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar

• Experience with modern data architectures (Data Lakes, Apache Iceberg, S3 Tables)

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at .

USA, CA, Irvine - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually

USA, CA, San Francisco - 157,100.00 - 212,600.00 USD annually

USA, GA, Atlanta - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually

USA, IL, Chicago - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually

USA, NY, New York - 157,100.00 - 212,600.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Dallas - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually