- 5+ years of program/project management, business development or pre-sales experience in a software or consulting company
- Experience working with data, analytics, AI/ML, and data warehouse technologies
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Strong technical acumen with a foundational understanding of the data, analytics, and AI/ML landscape
- 5+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in developing and managing sales enablement content and training programs
- Proven track record in program management and cross-functional collaboration
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
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We are seeking a go to market (GTM) specialist who can develop, collaborate, and execute innovative strategies on behalf of the WW Specialist team for Database and Analytics to drive Amazon's data and analytics initiatives worldwide. This role will focus on owning worldwide programs and time-bound initiatives that help AWS sales and technical teams create and progress data, analytics and generative AI sales opportunities with their customers. As the Senior GTM Sales Acceleration Specialist, you will collaborate with other AWS stakeholders to define and deliver comprehensive program management and enablement for key priority initiatives. You will develop tailored strategies, industry-leading content, and comprehensive enablement solutions to empower key stakeholders and their end-users.
The ideal candidate will possess a proven track record of overachievement in program management, business development or pre-sales functions with some domain knowledge of data, analytics and generative AI. In addition, experience in sales enablement, and content management is desired. They 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. We expect the person in this role to work with AWS employees from many departments and geographies/time zones, requiring them to communicate clearly and effectively through Amazon business narratives/writing, weekly updates, and leveraging data available through Amazon QuickSight and Excel, to report the status of their projects and unlock business insights for leaders. This candidate must be a multi-faceted self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and prioritization.
Key job responsibilities
Design, develop, and provide program management for sales plays, programs, and events, including setting goals, establishing timelines, and developing RACI matrices
Develop go-to-market strategies and provide advisory services for data and analytics solutions
Develop world-class content and share and iterate with Product Marketing and other WWSO teams
Collaborate with industry teams on business-specific use cases aligned to the value of both data and analytics
Accelerate adoption of AWS data, analytics and generative AI services
Work closely with the service aligned GTM specialist teams to disseminate information to customers, the AWS field teams, and the AWS partner network
Train and enable AWS sales teams on how to deliver data, analytics and generative AI messaging, engage in development of key content assets, and collaborate with other teams on positioning AWS's core value proposition and newer capabilities
A day in the life
The mission of the Sales Acceleration Team in the WW Specialist team for Database and Analytics is to create and leverage mechanisms that increase the velocity of data and analytics sales, from top-of-funnel lead-generation to launching and scaling customers’ data and analytics productions. The team is part of a larger organization in AWS that is comprised of business development, solutions architecture, and program management professionals who execute on the company’s go-to-market data and analytics strategy for all of AWS.
About the team
The WW Specialist team for Database and Analytics build and execute go-to-market strategies that turn AWS ideas into billion dollar businesses. Our team is comprised of specialists, sales specialists, and solutions architects who help define and execute go-to-market strategies for new and emerging services and solutions worldwide. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.
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