Domain Lead - AWS Growth Initiative For Vmware, ASP AWS Growth Initiatives

Domain Lead Opportunity At Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Would you like to be part of a team that is supporting the rapid growth of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) business? AWS is looking for an accomplished Domain Lead to manage the largest and most strategic migration pursuits with customers migrating infrastructure to AWS. This builder will work with cross functional teams across AWS to support and execute on strategy, shaping deals and assisting account teams with coaching.

We are seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial leader for the development, implementation, and operationalization of scalable mechanisms to drive AWS growth and profitability. The Domain Lead will be responsible for deal pursuits, deal reviews, and deal funding for large migration opportunities in addition to evolving the growth initiative with a continuous focus on improvement and sharing best practices with other teams.

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and long-term about the needs of complex global businesses. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated abilities to influence AWS decision makers in an advisory approach through previous sales, major deals, or similar experience) to progress decision making through deal shaping and approval. They are self-starters who enjoy solving complex problems, work effectively with cross-functional counterparts, and thrive in fast-paced settings that are constantly evolving. Proving you have high judgment, strong capabilities to earn trust, think big, and are comfortable working in ambiguous, highly-visible situations is critical for this position.

A strong bias for action, strategic planning skills, quantitative analysis, and the ability to coordinate and deliver new initiatives across a highly-matrixed organization is essential.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Engage early with customer decision makers and account teams to shape account/deal strategies, and build strong value propositions, leveraging AWS funding/investments to win.
• Establish/manage the key deal review mechanism, including win strategy, executive alignment, and deal shaping.
• Coach enterprise account teams, structure complex deals and compelling proposals to best address business outcomes of our strategic customers holistically, allocating resources and investments, mitigating risk, driving growth and deal velocity.
• Ensure investments and allocation of specialized resources meet compliance regulations and profitability guidelines.
• Support escalations from sales leaders and cross functional area leads to drive effective conflict resolution and decision making with high level of accountability and judgement in fast-pace cycles, monitor progress, and facilitate rapid responses to customer and AWS Partners needs upon agreed SLAs.
• Provide visibility and insights of blocked pipeline and friction points that inform executive leaders on opportunities to transform the organization to accelerate time to value for our strategic customers and AWS Partners.
• Define and execute strategies to identify cohorts with high propensity to buy and support sellers to proactively engage.
• Act as trusted advisor and thought leader to the cross-functional area leadership in the development of commercial strategy and deals structuring.
• Assess deals patterns to understand the competitive landscape and identify insights for initiative and executive planning.
• Build strong internal relationships with leaders and counterparts across Amazon's diverse set of businesses including Professional Services, AWS Partner Programs, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and senior management.
• Define business requirements and processes to ensure appropriate mechanisms are in place to support sales operations, finance operations, reporting, funding operations management, allocation of specialized resources, weekly rhythm of the business, risk management, and compliance.
• Continuously iterate to improve efficiencies in the utilization of the resources of the team and key stakeholders to drive scale and simplification.

About the team: This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

Diverse Experiences: AWS 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.

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