Strategic Partner Executive

8+ years’ experience of partner/business development, enterprise sales, and/or program/product management experience with a focus on US Federal public sector agencies or SI’s.

• 5+ years’ experience creating and executing on detailed, action-driven account and business plans in collaboration with extended teams
• 5+ years’ experience with government technology capture, procurement, and contracting processes
• 8+ years’ experience with technology platform sales with an understanding of government IT, data centers, cloud services and cloud adoption
• 3+ experience developing, enabling and supporting Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Would you like to own building the future for a leader in the Cloud Computing business in the public sector? Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) by engaging with key public sector integrators (SI) and solutions providers who are reinventing their IT strategy by adopting and delivering cloud computing solutions? Do you have the business savvy, government business development experience and the technical background necessary to help further establish Amazon as a leading cloud platform provider?

As an AWS US Federal Strategic Partner Executive, you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mindshare and adoption of Amazon Web Services in public sector. Your mission will be to develop and drive large engagements that result in sell-through revenue, sell-to revenue and a growing AWS partner competency.

In this role, you will establish deep business and technical relationships with AWS partners through your knowledge of the customer's mission and the environment. You will have day-to-day interactions with our partners in support of government agencies. The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at the executive level, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with software developers and architects. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about the mission, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions.

Effectively developing and managing SIs will require that you establish deep business and technical relationships through your knowledge of the public sector industry and customer requirements. Through these relationships, you will be responsible for growing internal adoption of AWS, as well as broad organizational AWS competency within the SI business units and program teams. You will also work very closely with the AWS sales team to drive joint sales engagement, as well as strategically plan for development of future opportunities and pursuits. Ideal candidates will possess both business background that enables them to drive engagements and interact at the executive level with partners and government customers, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with IT and development leaders and implementers. Candidates should also have strong industry experience and demonstrated the ability to think and act strategically on the government customer mission, industry directions, and partner/customer technical challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Serve as a key member of the AWS Federal System Integrator and Solutions (Fed SI) Team to help drive overall AWS market and technical strategy.
• Maintain an accurate and robust System Integrator/ISV/VAR pipeline and forecast of business opportunities
• Understand and navigate federal contracting vehicles and procedures.
• Set a strategic sales plan for your target markets and ensure it's in line with the AWS strategic direction.

Understand the technical considerations and certifications specific to the public sector.

• Execute the strategic sales & business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. sales teams, service teams, legal, support, etc.).
• Identify specific prospects/partners/channels to approach while communicating the specific value proposition for their business and use case.
• Develop and manage the sales pipeline with a partner manager to ensure engagement with prospects, partners, and key customers.
• Work closely with the customer base to ensure they are successful using our web services, making sure they have the technical resources required.
• Understand the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the internal development team to guide the direction of our product offerings for developers.
• Understand and exploit the use of salesforce.com and other internal Amazon systems.
• Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to closing new customers.
• Manage complex contract negotiations and liaison with the legal group.
• Handle a high volume of engagements and the fast pace of the cloud computing market.
• Self-motivated with a great sense of urgency and follow-through.

8+ years’ experience of partner/business development, enterprise sales, and/or program/product management experience with a focus on US Federal public sector agencies or SI’s.

• 5+ years’ experience creating and executing on detailed, action-driven account and business plans in collaboration with extended teams
• 5+ years’ experience with government technology capture, procurement, and contracting processes
• 8+ years’ experience with technology platform sales with an understanding of government IT, data centers, cloud services and cloud adoption
• 3+ experience developing, enabling and supporting Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
• Self-starter and self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to collaborate to solve complex business challenges.
• Experience using Salesforce (reports and CRM).
• Excellent writing skills. The ability to author original text including detailed sales forecasts and strategy planning documents.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead executive level meetings understanding the audience and the ability to conduct EBC type activities.
• Understanding of compliance requirements of highly regulated customers in the public sector to include system accreditation frameworks which leverage the NIST guidelines. In addition, a working knowledge of FedRAMP and FISMA.
• Established network within the government partner and acquisition space.
• Familiarity with agile software development practices to include dev/ops and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) as well as associated technologies (serverless computing, microservices, containerization).
• Experience developing an indirect sales channel, growing partner competencies, and delivering sell-through revenue.

Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role

• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity

A day in the life

About the hiring group

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Job responsibilities

• Self-starter and self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to collaborate to solve complex business challenges.
• Experience using Salesforce (reports and CRM).
• Excellent writing skills. The ability to author original text including detailed sales forecasts and strategy planning documents.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead executive level meetings understanding the audience and the ability to conduct EBC type activities.
• Understanding of compliance requirements of highly regulated customers in the public sector to include system accreditation frameworks which leverage the NIST guidelines. In addition, a working knowledge of FedRAMP and FISMA.
• Established network within the government partner and acquisition space.
• Familiarity with agile software development practices to include dev/ops and CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) as well as associated technologies (serverless computing, microservices, containerization).
• Experience developing an indirect sales channel, growing partner competencies, and delivering sell-through revenue.

Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role

• Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity