Strategic Customer Engagements, Americas, Startups
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · New York, United States · 3 wk ago
AdvertisingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment only, with headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, navigation, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the description.
Key parts:
- Description: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Deal Lead for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team. SCE is a specialized global deal team that engages with commercial and public sector customers on deal strategy, structuring, and negotiations through contractual closure for transformational, strategic, large, complex, and/or highly competitive opportunities such as GenAI. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS, and to establish AWS as their key cloud technology provider. These opportunities range across industry verticals, such as Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Healthcare Life Sciences, Automotive and Manufacturing, and Public Sector, and customer size (from start-ups to enterprise customers). These engagements may also involve Pan-Amazon and AWS go-to-market opportunities involving close partnership between the SCE team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders. As a Deal Lead, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end deal cycle for strategic, large, complex, or highly competitive deals. You will focus on building trust with customers by creating actionable strategies, developing and shaping opportunities, and leading deal engagements through negotiations and closure. This highly visible role will own engagement with customer C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, and other strategic relationships. You will work collaboratively to drive results by partnering with AWS customers, AWS field sales executives, and other internal stakeholders to empower our customers to evolve, address challenges, and create innovative solutions.
- Key job responsibilities (list):
- Lead negotiations and drive customer closure for strategic, large, complex, or highly competitive deals, including GenAI opportunities, managing the end-to-end deal cycle from strategy through contractual completion
- Develop and shape overall deal strategy, structure, and pricing approaches to meet customer business outcomes and goals, while identifying and resolving deal blockers
- Collaborate closely with Americas regional sales teams and global stakeholders — including Service Teams, Finance, and Legal — to align resources, remove obstacles, and achieve desired business outcomes
- Act as a trusted advisor to AWS Field Sales Executives on commercial strategy, partnering in the execution of the sales cycle for strategic and highly competitive opportunities
- Present deal proposals to customers and communicate the AWS value proposition, influencing alignment with internal stakeholders and experts to drive revenue growth and cloud adoption
- A day in the life (prose):
- Your primary focus is guiding complex, high-value deals from initial strategy through signed agreement. You might start the morning reviewing a deal proposal with a solutions architect, then join a call with a customer's procurement team to work through commercial terms. After lunch you could be collaborating with Finance and Legal to finalize pricing structures, followed by preparing a narrative for senior leadership on a competitive opportunity. Throughout, you balance independent analysis with real-time collaboration across sales, service, and business teams to keep deals moving forward.
- About The Team (prose):
- The Strategic Customer Engagements team at AWS partners with customers across industries to structure and close some of the most impactful cloud deals in the market. We operate at the intersection of sales strategy, deal structuring, and customer relationships, working alongside field sales, service teams, and cross-functional partners to deliver outcomes that matter. Our team values creative problem-solving, clear communication, and a collaborative approach. We are focused on expanding our reach across the Americas and continuing to help customers accelerate their cloud adoption journey.
- Basic Qualifications (list):
- 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
- 12 + years demonstrated success working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals (relative to industry and market size) from opportunity through closure
- 12+ years of experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, and legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
Note: The last bullet repeats similar; we keep both? It's duplicate but we preserve all substantive info; maybe we can combine? But we should not invent or summarize away detail; but we can keep both as separate list items; it's okay.
- Preferred Qualifications (list):
- Advanced degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Direct field experience with enterprise accounts
- Strong written and verbal presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences
- Benefits: The description includes: "Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits."
Also earlier: "Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives." That's compensation but not benefits? It's part of total compensation. We'll treat as Benefits? The instruction: include Benefits section only if posting actually states them. Yes, they state benefits. So we can include Benefits
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, navigation, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the description.
Key parts:
- Description: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Deal Lead for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team. SCE is a specialized global deal team that engages with commercial and public sector customers on deal strategy, structuring, and negotiations through contractual closure for transformational, strategic, large, complex, and/or highly competitive opportunities such as GenAI. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS, and to establish AWS as their key cloud technology provider. These opportunities range across industry verticals, such as Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Healthcare Life Sciences, Automotive and Manufacturing, and Public Sector, and customer size (from start-ups to enterprise customers). These engagements may also involve Pan-Amazon and AWS go-to-market opportunities involving close partnership between the SCE team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders. As a Deal Lead, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end deal cycle for strategic, large, complex, or highly competitive deals. You will focus on building trust with customers by creating actionable strategies, developing and shaping opportunities, and leading deal engagements through negotiations and closure. This highly visible role will own engagement with customer C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, and other strategic relationships. You will work collaboratively to drive results by partnering with AWS customers, AWS field sales executives, and other internal stakeholders to empower our customers to evolve, address challenges, and create innovative solutions.
- Key job responsibilities (list):
- Lead negotiations and drive customer closure for strategic, large, complex, or highly competitive deals, including GenAI opportunities, managing the end-to-end deal cycle from strategy through contractual completion
- Develop and shape overall deal strategy, structure, and pricing approaches to meet customer business outcomes and goals, while identifying and resolving deal blockers
- Collaborate closely with Americas regional sales teams and global stakeholders — including Service Teams, Finance, and Legal — to align resources, remove obstacles, and achieve desired business outcomes
- Act as a trusted advisor to AWS Field Sales Executives on commercial strategy, partnering in the execution of the sales cycle for strategic and highly competitive opportunities
- Present deal proposals to customers and communicate the AWS value proposition, influencing alignment with internal stakeholders and experts to drive revenue growth and cloud adoption
- A day in the life (prose):
- Your primary focus is guiding complex, high-value deals from initial strategy through signed agreement. You might start the morning reviewing a deal proposal with a solutions architect, then join a call with a customer's procurement team to work through commercial terms. After lunch you could be collaborating with Finance and Legal to finalize pricing structures, followed by preparing a narrative for senior leadership on a competitive opportunity. Throughout, you balance independent analysis with real-time collaboration across sales, service, and business teams to keep deals moving forward.
- About The Team (prose):
- The Strategic Customer Engagements team at AWS partners with customers across industries to structure and close some of the most impactful cloud deals in the market. We operate at the intersection of sales strategy, deal structuring, and customer relationships, working alongside field sales, service teams, and cross-functional partners to deliver outcomes that matter. Our team values creative problem-solving, clear communication, and a collaborative approach. We are focused on expanding our reach across the Americas and continuing to help customers accelerate their cloud adoption journey.
- Basic Qualifications (list):
- 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
- 12 + years demonstrated success working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals (relative to industry and market size) from opportunity through closure
- 12+ years of experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, and legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
Note: The last bullet repeats similar; we keep both? It's duplicate but we preserve all substantive info; maybe we can combine? But we should not invent or summarize away detail; but we can keep both as separate list items; it's okay.
- Preferred Qualifications (list):
- Advanced degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Direct field experience with enterprise accounts
- Strong written and verbal presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross functional audiences
- Benefits: The description includes: "Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits."
Also earlier: "Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives." That's compensation but not benefits? It's part of total compensation. We'll treat as Benefits? The instruction: include Benefits section only if posting actually states them. Yes, they state benefits. So we can include Benefits Benefits
with a - list.
- Pay: The posting includes salary ranges for various locations: "The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location." Then list of ranges: USA, CA, San Francisco - 187,000.00 - 252,900.00 USD annually etc. So we have Pay info. Should we include Pay section? Yes, they state it. We'll include Pay
Pay
with maybe a - list of each location range.
- Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should NOT include Schedule section.
- Skills: Not explicitly listed as a separate section; but we have qualifications etc. Could treat under Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which sections to include based on content. We have About the role (maybe we can combine description into About the role). Responsibilities (we have key job responsibilities). Requirements (maybe Basic Qualifications). Qualifications (maybe Preferred Qualifications). Skills (maybe we could put preferred qualifications under Skills? But they already have Preferred Qualifications; we could treat that as Qualifications. The instruction says we can include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (Basic Qualifications), Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications), Benefits, Pay. Skills maybe not explicitly separate; we could omit Skills if no distinct skills list beyond qualifications. However we have "Strong written and verbal presentation skills" etc which is a skill; but it's under Preferred Qualifications. Could still include Skills section with those items. But to avoid duplication, better to follow the headings given: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We'll map:
- About the role: The introductory paragraphs describing the role, team, opportunities, etc. Could combine description and About The Team? Might be redundant. But we can put About the role as the description of the role (first paragraphs). About The Team could be part of About the role or separate? The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid adding other headings like About The Team, but we should stick to those. We could incorporate About The Team content into About the role or maybe into Responsibilities? Better to keep About the role as the role description, and maybe we can add a separate section "About The Team" but that's not in the allowed list; but the instruction says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The "e.g." suggests those are examples, not exclusive list. However they say "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It implies we should use those headings for sections. It's safer to stick to those. We can embed About The Team content within About the role or Responsibilities? Probably About the role can include both role description and team description.
Thus:
About the role
... (combined description)
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Then Requirements Requirements
with Basic Qualifications list.
Then Qualifications Qualifications
with Preferred Qualifications list.
Then Skills: maybe we could extract skills from Preferred Qualifications? But we already have Qualifications; maybe we can omit Skills if no distinct content. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could omit Skills if it would be thin. We'll omit Skills.
Then Benefits Benefits
with list.
Then Pay Pay
with list.
No Schedule.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, equal opportunity, accommodation, etc. Also remove Job ID, company, etc.
We must preserve all substantive information: ensure we don't lose any details like industry verticals, customer size, Pan-Amazon, etc. Also the "A day in the life" prose should be included somewhere; maybe under About the role or Responsibilities? It's a description of typical day; we could include it under About the role as a paragraph.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include "Deal Lead" as heading.
We must not include metadata like Job ID.
Now craft HTML.
We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed.
Let's compose About the role paragraph(s). Combine:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Deal Lead for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team. SCE is a specialized global deal team that engages with commercial and public sector customers on deal strategy, structuring, and negotiations through contractual closure for transformational, strategic, large, complex, and/or highly competitive opportunities such as GenAI. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS, and to establish AWS as their key cloud technology provider. These opportunities range across industry verticals, such as Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Healthcare Life Sciences, Automotive and Manufacturing, and Public Sector, and customer size (from start-ups to enterprise customers). These engagements may also involve Pan-Amazon and AWS go-to-market opportunities involving close partnership between the SCE team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders. As a Deal Lead, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end deal cycle for strategic, large, complex, or highly competitive deals. You will focus on building trust with customers by creating actionable strategies, developing and shaping opportunities, and leading deal engagements through negotiations and closure. This highly visible role will own engagement with customer C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, and other strategic relationships. You will work collaboratively to drive results by partnering with AWS customers, AWS field sales executives, and other internal stakeholders to empower our customers to evolve,
Pay
with maybe a- list of each location range.
- Schedule: Not mentioned. No schedule info. So we should NOT include Schedule section.
- Skills: Not explicitly listed as a separate section; but we have qualifications etc. Could treat under Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which sections to include based on content. We have About the role (maybe we can combine description into About the role). Responsibilities (we have key job responsibilities). Requirements (maybe Basic Qualifications). Qualifications (maybe Preferred Qualifications). Skills (maybe we could put preferred qualifications under Skills? But they already have Preferred Qualifications; we could treat that as Qualifications. The instruction says we can include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (Basic Qualifications), Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications), Benefits, Pay. Skills maybe not explicitly separate; we could omit Skills if no distinct skills list beyond qualifications. However we have "Strong written and verbal presentation skills" etc which is a skill; but it's under Preferred Qualifications. Could still include Skills section with those items. But to avoid duplication, better to follow the headings given: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We'll map:
- About the role: The introductory paragraphs describing the role, team, opportunities, etc. Could combine description and About The Team? Might be redundant. But we can put About the role as the description of the role (first paragraphs). About The Team could be part of About the role or separate? The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid adding other headings like About The Team, but we should stick to those. We could incorporate About The Team content into About the role or maybe into Responsibilities? Better to keep About the role as the role description, and maybe we can add a separate section "About The Team" but that's not in the allowed list; but the instruction says "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The "e.g." suggests those are examples, not exclusive list. However they say "Use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It implies we should use those headings for sections. It's safer to stick to those. We can embed About The Team content within About the role or Responsibilities? Probably About the role can include both role description and team description. Thus:
About the role
... (combined description)
Then ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities
with- .
Then Requirements
Requirements
with Basic Qualifications list. Then QualificationsQualifications
with Preferred Qualifications list. Then Skills: maybe we could extract skills from Preferred Qualifications? But we already have Qualifications; maybe we can omit Skills if no distinct content. However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could omit Skills if it would be thin. We'll omit Skills. Then BenefitsBenefits
with list. Then PayPay
with list. No Schedule. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, equal opportunity, accommodation, etc. Also remove Job ID, company, etc. We must preserve all substantive information: ensure we don't lose any details like industry verticals, customer size, Pan-Amazon, etc. Also the "A day in the life" prose should be included somewhere; maybe under About the role or Responsibilities? It's a description of typical day; we could include it under About the role as a paragraph. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include "Deal Lead" as heading. We must not include metadata like Job ID. Now craft HTML. We'll need to escape any special characters? Not needed. Let's compose About the role paragraph(s). Combine: - Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Deal Lead for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team. SCE is a specialized global deal team that engages with commercial and public sector customers on deal strategy, structuring, and negotiations through contractual closure for transformational, strategic, large, complex, and/or highly competitive opportunities such as GenAI. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS, and to establish AWS as their key cloud technology provider. These opportunities range across industry verticals, such as Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Healthcare Life Sciences, Automotive and Manufacturing, and Public Sector, and customer size (from start-ups to enterprise customers). These engagements may also involve Pan-Amazon and AWS go-to-market opportunities involving close partnership between the SCE team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders. As a Deal Lead, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end deal cycle for strategic, large, complex, or highly competitive deals. You will focus on building trust with customers by creating actionable strategies, developing and shaping opportunities, and leading deal engagements through negotiations and closure. This highly visible role will own engagement with customer C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, and other strategic relationships. You will work collaboratively to drive results by partnering with AWS customers, AWS field sales executives, and other internal stakeholders to empower our customers to evolve,