Principal Account Executive, Federal Financials

About the role

Would you like to own driving customer engagements and outcomes in Cloud Computing? Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services by engaging with Financial Services organizations who are reinventing their missions by adopting cloud computing? Do you have the business savvy, sales experience, and the technical background necessary to help further establish Amazon as a leading cloud platform provider?

Responsibilities

• Serve as a key member of the Federal Financial Sales Team in helping to drive overall AWS market and technical strategy
• Contribute to strategies, program development, investments, channel development and other important efforts to make AWS the best fit for our customers' needs
• Identify, engage WWPS Federal Financials accounts, using a solution selling approach
• Maintain an accurate and robust pipeline and commit to a forecast of specific business opportunities within a time period
• Perform the full range of sales activities from demand generation campaigns to pipeline management by engaging with customers, AWS internal resources (Professional Services, Solution architects, AWS service teams, etc.), and AWS partners
• Bring a working understanding of modern cloud architecture - security, data, AI/ML, and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA) - to help regulatory customers adopt cloud with confidence
• Understand and exploit the use of Salesforce.com and other internal Amazon systems
• Be a thought leader and an executive relationship builder
• Set a strategic sales plan for your target markets and ensure it's in line with the AWS strategic direction
• Identify specific prospects/partners/channels to approach while communicating the specific value proposition for their business and use case
• Work closely with the customer to ensure they are successful using our web services, making sure they have the technical resources required, and documenting wins in use cases and case studies
• Understand the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the internal development team to guide the direction of our product offerings for developers
• Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to closing new customers
• Manage complex contract negotiations and liaison with the legal group, while handling a high volume of engagements and the fast pace of the cloud computing market

Requirements

The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at the executive level, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with software developers, architects, and business line leaders at a high level.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technology related sales, business development or equivalent experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals

Skills

A demonstrated ability to think strategically about the mission, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions.

Benefits

Work/Life Balance
Inclusive Team Culture
Mentorship and Career Growth

Pay

Base salary range: $170,000.00 - $230,000.00 USD annually

Schedule

Full-time