Technical Account Manager
Amazon
Technical Account Manager
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.
Would you like to join one of the fastest-growing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and help Independent Software Vendors (ISV) customers (AWS customers who sell software solutions (often SaaS) built using AWS services) to maximize the value and benefits of AWS Services?
As a Technical Account Manager (TAM) in the AWS Enterprise Support ISV segment you will have a direct impact in helping our customers gain the most value from cloud technology. TAMs actively engage at the account level providing recommendations and proactive advice throughout the entire cloud adoption life cycle.
The TAM is the customer's trusted advisor and operational excellence expert for our Enterprise Support ISV customers. The close relationships developed with your customers across all levels of their business will allow you to understand their business/operational needs and technical challenges and help them achieve the greatest value from cloud technologies. You will provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices and proactively keep your customers' AWS environments operationally healthy. As a TAM you'll craft and execute strategies with senior customer stakeholders up to C-level to drive our customers' adoption and use of AWS services. This support extends to addressing strategy-related queries aiding in project and launch planning and resolving operational challenges.
Key job responsibilities
• Guide, consult, provide technical guidance, and advocate for the customer within AWS * Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy and optimized in terms of cost, complexity, security, performance, and resiliency * Develop trusting relationships with customers understanding both their business needs and technical challenges * Using your technical acumen and customer obsession, you'll drive technical discussions regarding incidents, architectural cost/benefit trade-offs, and risk management * Consult with a range of stakeholders from developers through to C-suite executives * Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers * Proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS * Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, monthly and quarterly metrics, and detailed pre-launch planning * Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads to the cloud The minimum base pay salary for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazon's package may include further pay components such as a sign on payment and the eligibility to participate in a restricted stock unit scheme operated independently by Amazon.com Inc. in USA. Your recruiting team will share final base pay and any applicable total compensation elements depending on skills and requirements.
• Company discretionary supplementary benefits apply subject to further terms including pension plans health insurance life and disability insurance business travel insurance MultiSport card employee discount code and program (EDC/Extras) commuter benefits where applicable and the Employee Assistance Program (private and confidential counselling and referral service to support health and well-being).
A day in the life
About the team
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- Experience in a similar role as a Technical Account Manager, Consultant, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect etc.
- Experience in operational parameters and troubleshooting for four (4) or more of the following technical domains: Compute / Storage / Networking / CDN /Databases / DevOps / Big Data and Analytics / Security / Applications Development in a distributed systems environment / Scripting & Automation / Container technologies / AI,ML
- Internal enterprise or external customer-facing experience with the ability to clearly articulate to small and large audiences dealing with Senior customer stakeholders at Director / VP / C-level
- Ability to juggle tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment
- * Experience in a similar role as a Technical Account Manager, Consultant, Solutions Architect, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, Cloud Architect etc.
- Proficiency in professional oral and written communication, with a record of presenting to audiences containing one or more decision-makers
- Track record in influencing management in technical, operational and strategic decisions
- Experience in operational services or support environment
- Hands-on experience with AWS services and/or other cloud offerings
- Experience with SaaS, multi-tenant architectures and deployment automation is a plus
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