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Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, GenAI background in the Startup space, and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Startup team as a GTM Specialist Solutions Architect!

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

The WWSO team helps customers adopt our newest and most advantageous technologies. We are technology specialists. The WWSO Startup team is a team dedicated to helping Startups scale quickly and cost-effectively on AWS. We want Startups to grow better when they choose AWS and we make it easier by recommending the right technologies and then by helping Startups get up and running quickly.

This position specifically is part of the WWSO Startup team, where you will be a Specialist Solution Architect that helps Startups adopt AWS’ technologies with a focus on GenAI, among others. You will 1/Be the best storytellers and technologists, 2/Work with the most promising Startups, 3/Scale tech knowledge via products, programs, and the AWS Field, and 4/Gather critical Startup feedback to inform our product roadmaps.

Roles/Responsibilities:

• Interact at the CxO/VP level, as well as with developers and technical architects, to ease adoption, develop pipeline, secure lighthouse customers, drive top-line revenue, and explore strategic partnerships.

• Become a trusted advisor within startup founders through Technical Thought Leadership and demonstrate AWS values.

• Develop and deploy programs that leverage AWS Field Solution Architect teams, as well as technology and consulting partner channels.

• Collaborate with AWS Product and Technical teams to create solutions that solve customer problems, including reference architectures, patterns, automation, and release plan.

• Guide and Support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts aligned to your domains. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate new AWS solutions into customer architectures.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

• 5+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

• Bachelor's degree

• 5+ years management of technical, customer facing resources

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with machine learning algorithms, model development, common frameworks, workflow tools, and applied AI

Preferred Qualifications

• Startup background and experience at a VC or PE-backed firm in a Technical Executive capacity.

• Familiarity with open-source software used by Startups and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies common to Startups.

• Strong data-based storytelling skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with Startup executives and developers.

• Cloud expertise as demonstrated by one or more cloud certifications.

• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

• Proficiency with design, deployment, and evaluation of LLM-powered agents and tools and orchestration approaches.

• Advanced degree highly preferred such as engineering, computer science, or MIS a plus.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.