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Sr. Partner Development Manager, WWPS, PARTNERS-PS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Miami, FL · 2 wk ago
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About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Partner Development Manager to own and grow our strategic relationship with a leading frontier AI model provider, driving transformative artificial intelligence solutions across our Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) customer base.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategic partner relationship end-to-end — serve as the primary point of contact between AWS and the frontier AI model provider, driving joint business planning, executive alignment, and mutual investment across the Worldwide Public Sector segment

  • Define and execute a joint go-to-market strategy focused on accelerating adoption of frontier AI capabilities (foundation models, agentic AI, multimodal reasoning) across public sector customers, with emphasis on mission-critical use cases in Federal (Civilian and Defense), State & Local Government, Education, Healthcare, and Nonprofit verticals

  • Drive co-sell pipeline development and revenue growth — identify, qualify, and advance joint opportunities with public sector end-customers, articulating the differentiated value of the partner's AI models deployed on AWS infrastructure (including GovCloud and classified environments)

  • Collaborate with AWS field teams, solution architects, and service teams to ensure the partner's models are optimally integrated with AWS services (e.g., Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, EC2 accelerated compute) and aligned to public sector customer requirements

  • Navigate public sector compliance and security requirements (FedRAMP, IL4/5/6, StateRAMP, ITAR) as they pertain to the partner's model deployment, data residency, and end-customer procurement pathways

  • Maintain an accurate pipeline and forecast of joint GTM opportunities tied to the partner's model release cadence, capability roadmap, and AWS infrastructure dependencies

  • Build and manage executive-level relationships with the partner's public sector, product, and engineering leadership — deliver quarterly business reviews outlining pipeline health, win/loss analysis, adoption metrics, and strategic investment recommendations

  • Serve as the internal voice of the partnership across AWS WWPS leadership, ensuring alignment on prioritization, resource allocation, and escalation paths

  • Supporting Responsibilities — Strategic ISV Portfolio (20%)

    • Support GTM and partner development activities across a portfolio of strategic WWPS ISV partners, contributing to co-sell pipeline generation, joint solution positioning, and field enablement
    • Affiliate with business planning and partner engagement cadences (QBRs, MBRs, campaign execution) for additional ISV accounts as needed
    • Serve as a key member of the AWS Worldwide Public Sector ISV team, contributing to team-wide best practices, cross-partner learnings, and overall market strategy development

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree

  • 3+ years of experience working with public sector customers or partners (US Federal, State & Local Government, Education, Healthcare, or Nonprofit)

  • Experience managing strategic technology partnerships or co-sell motions involving AI/ML, SaaS platforms, or cloud infrastructure services

  • 5+ years of experience in partner development, business development, alliance management, or enterprise sales within the technology sector

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