Enterprise Support Manager, Strategic Industries - Global Financial Services

As an increasing number of large enterprises move their critical systems to the cloud, we are in need of high-powered technical leaders to help Amazon’s largest and most strategically important customers navigate the operational challenges of cloud computing. You will work with our top-tier customers, supporting the software development life-cycle for cloud services, operations management of active services, and business relationships with AWS.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind-share and broad use of Amazon Web Services with one of our largest customers. You must possess management and customer-facing skills that enable you to represent AWS well within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding incidents, trade-offs, best practices, and risk management. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges as you help our customers take advantage of the efficiencies, cost savings and quick innovation available only in the cloud.

As Enterprise Support Manager, you will lead a team of Technical Account Managers who are the primary operational point of contact for your customer, helping to plan, review, and oversee ongoing operations of business critical applications. You will leverage your broad experience to work closely with sales leadership to plan and ensure successful launch and operations of AWS’s largest application workloads. You will lead operations reviews, both internally and with your customers, while constantly seeking ways to improve your customer’s AWS experience. In this role, you will also act as the voice of the customer within AWS to escalate problems and to drive prioritization of business needs for our customers.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) 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

• Champion and advocate for Enterprise customers within Amazon Web Services (be their voice)
• Develop the team responsible for solving technical issues and working directly with AWS engineers to ensure that customer issues are resolved as expediently as possible
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Help Enterprise customers define IT and business processes that work well with cloud deployments
• Engage with Director and C-Level executives to translate business needs into technical and operational plans
• Work with AWS executive leadership to influence the product roadmap
• Provide detailed reviews of service disruptions, metrics, detailed pre-launch planning

In GFS, we provide support to some of the world's largest financial services industries. We align ourselves with our customers to support their adoption of the cloud. We analyze and assist with financial goals, performance goals, and partner with our customers to provide a cloud experience that suits their needs. We cover the divisions of capital markets, insurance, and banking and payments.

Diverse Experiences

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Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

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Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 7+ year experience in leading/managing Technical teams
• Ability to hire and develop technical teams
• Ability to create innovative mechanisms and process
• Record of leading projects / initiatives to improve support-related processes and the customer’s technical support experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scaling an organization through rapid growth or expansion
• Previous experience in technical account management, business relationship management or consulting
• An adaptable communication style that can fit diverse audiences (with varying technical backgrounds)
• Proficient in communicating complex ideas, either with the written word or in presentations
• Ability of Stakeholder management, especially during crisis and business critical situations
• Ability to influence customer and organizational priorities to meet customer needs
• Strategic management demonstrable experience

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