Description

Would you like to be part of a team focused on accelerating adoption of Amazon's Databases suite including Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB? Do you have the business savvy, technical background, and sales skills necessary to help position Amazon as the cloud provider of choice for our Databases infrastructure? Amazon Web Services is looking for Specialized Sellers to help establish AWS Databases solutions as the market leader solutions. We built AWS Databases services to give customers the agility to respond to the need of collect, enrich and use the data in a simple and powerful way. Customers can scale up or scale down on-demand, providing users with the resources they need, all without deploying and operating infrastructure.

You will be responsible for working with Enterprise customers and their existing AWS account representatives to qualify and pursue sales opportunities for cloud based end databases workloads. You will engage with our demand generation, segment sales, solutions architects, partner and marketing organizations to drive opportunities to closure. Your commitments will include quota accountability, driving platform adoption within Enterprise accounts, running programs and ensuring success at scale.

The ideal candidate will have both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive an engagement at the Executive level as well as with software developers and IT architects. The candidate should be a self-starter who is prepared to develop and execute against a territory coverage plan and consistently deliver on quarterly revenue targets. Teamwork, Account strategies, cross selling, solution selling, negotiation and closing are just a few of the critical skills required for success.

Enjoy working with Enterprise customers. The role of a Specialized Seller requires someone who simultaneously acts as a market maker, operator, and general manager for their own customer accounts. With a focus on customer outcomes, they must work to win new customers, grow existing customers, secure lighthouse customers, drive revenue for new services, and develop strategic partnerships.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) 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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive revenue and increase market share in a defined geography

• Meet or exceed revenue targets

• Develop and execute a territory plan to grow the AWS EUC footprint

• Manage numerous accounts concurrently & strategically

• Create & articulate compelling value propositions around AWS EUC services

A day in the life

What You Will Do

• Drive strategic initiatives end-to-end

• Manage dependencies and make appropriate trade-offs

• Provide escalation management

• Balance business and customer needs vs. technical constraints to meet timelines

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our

uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better- rounded professional.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bogota, COL

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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