Sales - State of Iowa, Midwest SLG

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expanding in the U.S. Public Sector market, and this group within Amazon offers a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be at the center of Amazon innovation. As an Account Executive within Amazon Web Services, you will have the opportunity to help drive the expansion and rapid migration to cloud-based services.

Responsibilities

• Drive revenue and cloud adoption in a defined account base.
• Help advance our market and technical strategy.
• Develop, articulate and implement account plans aligned to AWS's strategic direction.
• Identify specific prospects/partners/channels to collaborate with to serve customers.
• Work closely with customers to ensure that they understand relevant cloud use cases, are successful using AWS services, and are able to build the governance models required to fully embrace operating in the cloud.
• Maintain an accurate and robust pipeline and forecast of business opportunities by engaging with prospects, partners, and key customers.
• Prepare and deliver business reviews to the senior management team regarding quarterly and yearly strategies that align with revenue growth expectations.
• Accelerate cloud adoption and ensure customer satisfaction.

Requirements

You need to possess a technology sales background to drive engagement at the agency CXO and decision-maker level as well as with software developers, IT architects, and systems integrators. You will need to think strategically about customer business and technical challenges, and convey ideas to solve them, while working across organizations to build consensus.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 2+ years of technology related sales, business development or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable track record of cultivating a sales territory and continually meeting and exceeding annual quota.