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Account Executive, Startup Sales, Cloud Sales Center
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AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.
As a Startup Central Sales Account Executive
You will help drive growth in one of two focus areas: either working with early-stage startups from inception to Series A, or engaging with mature startups from Series B onwards. In both roles, you will be servicing their unique needs, engaging with Founders, CxOs, Board of Directors and VC influencers, and teaming with business development, marketing, solution architecture and partner teams to lead execution of coordinated go-to-market strategies. Your customers are building, launching, and iterating the next generation of high impact products which will change the daily lives of our planet in ways both big and small, and you will be part of these journeys.
Key job responsibilities
- Drive customer growth across their startup journey, providing strategic guidance from ideation to scale
- Execute territory strategies and prioritize opportunities to exceed revenue targets
- Create compelling AWS value propositions by deeply understanding customers' products and market needs
- Accelerate technical adoption of AWS services aligned with customers' growth trajectory
- Leverage AWS partners to expand market reach and drive AWS adoption
A day in the life
In this role, you will establish AWS as the key cloud provider across your portfolio companies, with emphasis on our industry-leading GenAI capabilities. You'll promote AWS's comprehensive suite of services, from Bedrock and foundation models to broader cloud infrastructure, helping startups build and scale their AI innovations. You'll help the next generation of disruptors transform their ideas into production-ready AI solutions on AWS.
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About the team
The Startup Central Sales focus on acquiring new customers and accelerating AWS adoption of existing customers. We deliver targeted customer experience throughout their AWS journey by being trusted advisors in our customers' industries. Underpinned by a Learn and Be Curious culture, we are agile in looking for specific initiatives that can be programmatically repeated to accelerate similar groups of prospects/customers at scale. Working backwards from the customer, we use end-to-end data and analytics to make real-time decisions, experiment with new concepts and respond to trends to innovate on behalf of our customers.
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Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in business development, sales, or sales-engineering, preferably in the technology, internet, and e-commerce sectors
- Experience selling cloud solutions at a software company or equivalent
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working in a technology sales organization
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