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Amazon Senior Startup Account Manager – Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland
Description
Trusted by more startups around the world, AWS makes the power of cloud computing accessible for all by giving founders everywhere access to the same technology that powers the world’s largest companies. With nearly 20 years of experience gained from supporting hundreds of thousands of startups that have come before, we help founders prove that their world-changing ideas are possible, at any stage of growth or level of funding. This is why more startups, and over 80% of unicorns, build on AWS.
AWS Poland is looking for a new team member who is passionate about enabling and developing growth-/late-stage technology startups. You will be at the heart of latest technology trends like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), serverless or Internet-of-Things (IoT) to help your startups grow. Your startup customers leverage AWS to innovate and become the next unicorns and future enterprises, like today’s Tidio, Docplanner, Omnipack and Brainly.
You will be part of a team that is responsible for driving adoption of AWS technologies while bringing differentiated value to customers. This is a team dedicated to Startups, an important and growing subset of customers for AWS. Startups follow unique technology adoption patterns and growth trajectories that distinguish them from traditional businesses, so you will be employing engagement strategies and programs tailored to their business needs and technical preferences.
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
Key job responsibilities
Roles & Responsibilities
Ensure customer satisfaction and success
Drive business growth and AWS adoption with a defined set of customers
Create and execute against comprehensive, customer-centric account plans to exceed your goals
Facilitate long-term relationships from C-level to engineers
Accelerate your business by working with internal stakeholders and leveraging external partners
Articulate compelling value propositions around AWS services and Amazon
Represent AWS at conferences & marketing events
Expect moderate travel
A day in the life
In this role, you leverage your Polish market expertise and business proficiency to engage with technology startups and enable them to grow their business through leveraging AWS in and beyond technology. You are responsible to build trust, close executive relationships and create comprehensive account plans to drive AWS adoption. You understand the importance of communicating and acting on all levels from CxOs to engineers to empower them to innovate and accelerate time-to-market. Along the way, starting from the customer, you team up with various internal and external stakeholders to meet and exceed your goals, such as the Solutions Architecture, Business Development, Partner, Training, and Support teams.
About the team
The startup organization at AWS comprises experts from across the global ecosystem, including former founders and CTOs, venture capitalists, angel investors, and mentors who upskill today's founders to navigate challenges and opportunities as they build their business, and our Startup Solutions Architect team is where the magic happens. is dedicated to working with startup companies as they build and scale their businesses. We’re here to make sure that they can deploy the best, most scalable, and most secure architectures possible – and that they spend as little time and money as possible doing so. We are a group of technologists with varied backgrounds; from fresh graduates to ex-CTOs, all growing our skills and startup expertise, while working on cutting edge technology use-cases with some of the world’s most innovative companies. For Solutions Architect who like to invent, there's no better place to build than on the AWS Startup SA team.
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Basic Qualifications
Technology related sales, business development or consulting experience
Track record in customer acquisition roles like inside sales or demand generation
Profound understanding of the Polish and CEE startup ecosystem, the main stakeholders and trends
Verbal and written communications skills in Polish and English
Preferred Qualifications
MBA/MA/MS degree or equivalent
Experience in driving adoption of new technologies and solutions
Worked at/with tech startups in the past
Previous Cloud expertise at a technology company
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