AI/ML/GenAI Specialist BD, GCR SSO GenAI team Full-time

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AWS customers are looking for ways to transform their businesses and solve their own complex business challenges with machine learning (ML) technologies in the cloud. AWS is leading the way in providing customers with powerful, end-to-end machine learning platforms such as Amazon SageMaker.

Are you passionate about Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and scalable distributed systems? Are you passionate about developing impactful ML content and strategies? Are you passionate about engaging the Artificial Intelligence community (AI researchers, developers building ML-powered products, data scientists and ML entrepreneurs in startups and enterprises)?

AWS is seeking a Business Development Specialist for GenAI. The SS will customer facing and will facilitate the enablement of business development, solution architects with specific customer centric value proposition about ML. The SS will work closely across multiple internal and external organizations – AWS Business Development, Marketing, Partners, and AI communities – to position the AWS GenAI for customers and partners, and provide guidance on the value proposition and benefit those customers and partners. The SS will be directly helping our customers to reinvent their own business models by harnessing the power of AWS machine learning technologies; driving specific adoption and deals with key customers.

In addition, the SS will synthesize data and information gathered from these engagements into succinct findings, derive strategic insights, and persuasively communicate findings and perspectives to product and bd teams, including senior leadership. The SS will work with business development and solution architecture teams to track, prioritize and close customer engagements that would benefit from the AWS GenAI, and collaborate and coordinate cross-functional teams around these engagements where appropriate.

The ideal candidate will possess a Technology and Business background. The candidate will have the technical depth and business experience to easily communicate the benefits of machine learning platforms and frameworks in the AWS cloud to IT architects, engineering teams, and C-Level executives. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and long-term about the needs of complex global businesses. The ideal candidate will also be deeply familiar with complex legacy IT environments, managed enterprise IT infrastructure services, Enterprise applications, and would have done market analysis, deal negotiation and construction, business operations; and have a background that enables them to create scalable programs that apply holistic approaches to selling to customers and partners across different market segments.

Key job responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities:

– Engage in senior level customer meetings to drive AWS AI/ML/GenAI adoption. Diving into customer’s business challenges and executing strategies on how the AWS AI/ML/GenAI services can help address and resolve these challenges. Serve as an evangelist for the AWS AI/ML/GenAI within AWS and externally.

– Define, build and deploy enterprise focused business development campaigns around the AWS AI/ML/GenAI offering. Engage, support and scale business development teams across AWS to be capable of delivering the AWS AI/ML/GenAI value proposition to customers and partners.

– Develop a standard market intelligence framework and dynamic analytic model to be utilized by the AWS Business Development and Marketing teams.

– Bring the various stakeholders together to help build collective mindshare in augmenting the AWS AI/ML/GenAI.

– Establish mechanisms to measure and track metrics related to adoption of the AWS machine learning, and execute improvements to the approach based on those measurements. Prepare and deliver business reviews to the senior management regarding the AWS AI/ML/GenAI business.

About the team

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 7+ years of direct sales or business development in AI/ML/GenAI selling to C-level executives experience

– 10+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of pre-sales or specialist experience

Experience service specialist or GTM