Sr. GenAI Strategist - Startups, Generative AI Innovation Center

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a seasoned and proactive senior business-oriented technologist with a blend of startup ecosystem expertise, strong interpersonal skills, and deep understanding of analytics/big data, machine learning, and generative artificial intelligence. This senior role will focus on assisting startup customers in accelerating their growth, achieving product-market fit, or enhancing their business outcomes using advanced and emerging generative AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Align startup founders, technical leaders, and business stakeholders; help them explore the potential of generative AI and machine learning, and develop a roadmap to deliver business value with startup-appropriate speed and capital efficiency
• Act as a senior thought leader within the team, mentoring junior strategists and shaping the overall startup engagement methodology
• Discuss complex AI/ML business concepts with startup executives, VCs, and technical founders across stages from seed to growth
• Engage with various AWS teams, including applied scientists, solutions architects, business development, marketing, startup specialists, partners, and regional organizations
• Drive strategic engagements with high-potential startups from ideation, through vision building and scoping, all the way to closure and into delivery
• Identify repeatable generative AI patterns across the startup portfolio and codify them into scalable programs and frameworks
• Conduct workshop sessions with startup customers to identify opportunities for delivering business value through generative AI or machine learning, with an emphasis on rapid time-to-value
• Build relationships with the VC and accelerator ecosystem to source and support AI-native startups on AWS

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud architecture and solution implementation experience
• 6+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
• Experience working in or supporting sales, with preference for startup or high-growth company contexts
• Experience launching technical programs, projects, or related work that include the following: big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning

Benefits

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.