Customer Solutions Manager, EDU & SLG Western Region - CSM

About the role

Are you passionate about helping mission-driven organizations harness the power of cloud technology and AI to amplify their impact? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) to join our EDU & SLG Western Region team. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to government and higher education organizations navigating their cloud adoption and AI transformation journey — helping them translate their missions into measurable outcomes through modern cloud solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• Own & Influence: Lead customer engagements end-to-end across Sales, Support, Solutions Architecture, Professional Services, and customer teams to deliver measurable business outcomes for our customers
• Drive Adoption: Develop and execute cloud adoption roadmaps aligned with customer business milestones, translating strategic initiatives into concrete, sequenced actions
• Accelerate Value: Identify opportunities for large-scale migrations, data & analytics, generative AI, agentic AI, and modernization that advance organizations missions and organizational efficiency — from intelligent document processing to autonomous program delivery agents
• Enable & Govern: Design education programs, AI readiness assessments, governance frameworks, and executive briefing sessions that prepare customers for responsible AI adoption, successful cloud transformation, and long-term operational excellence
• Advocate & Coach: Serve as the customer's cloud coach and their voice within AWS, communicating customer needs to AWS leadership, product, and engineering teams
• Collaborate & Coordinate: Act as the connective tissue between account managers, solutions architects, technical account managers, and professional services — ensuring all teams execute cohesively against customer cloud strategy
• Build & Scale: Contribute to the CSM function by developing scalable mechanisms, AI-powered automation strategies, and best practices that accelerate customer adoption across the government and higher education segment — including agentic frameworks that can be replicated across mission-driven organizations

A day in the life

As a CSM on the AWS EDU/SLG team, you'll serve as the central connector between our customers, our implementation partners and AWS teams, ensuring everyone moves in sync toward shared goals. Your day might include facilitating strategy sessions with customer leadership to align their AI and cloud adoption roadmap with mission objectives, coordinating between Sales, Support, Solutions Architecture, and AI/ML specialist teams to remove blockers, and tracking progress against key milestones.

About the team

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 across state and local government and higher education trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience
• 5+ years of work in enterprise IT, either as a vendor, consultant or have prior experience working with or managing technical programs experience
• Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, or a related field
• Experience in leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion
• Experience working in enterprise IT, either as a vendor, consultant or have prior experience working with or managing technical programs
• Experience in customer-facing roles

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS or other cloud certification
• Knowledge of the software development/engineering lifecycle from conception to delivery or IT lifecycle
• Experience coordinating between project teams and customers to meet unique customer requirements