• 5 years of full sales cycle, technology sales or equivalent business development, sales engineering/consulting or equivalent experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Would you like to own driving revenue and customer engagements for a leader in the Cloud Computing business? Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services by engaging with Financial Services organizations who are reinventing their IT strategy by adopting cloud computing? Do you have the business savvy, sales experience and the technical background necessary to help further establish Amazon as a leading cloud platform provider? As an account executive within Amazon Web Services (AWS), focusing on the Federal Financial Business within the US Worldwide Public Sector , you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build the broad use of AWS's services. Your broad responsibilities will include developing and managing a growing book of business for finance organizations. You will drive business and technical relationships and close business at a rapid rate by helping to define and identify key opportunities, markets, contract vehicles and solutions. You will establish deep business and technical relationships through your knowledge of the customer’s mission and the environment. You will have day-to-day interactions with the CXO level customers in the top strategic customer accounts. You will help your customers use AWS services to enable business transformation across their organization, as well as the broader financial services industries that they regulate.
The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at the executive level, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with software developers and architects at a high level. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about the mission, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions.
Key job responsibilities

• Develop and execute against a comprehensive account/territory plan.
• Create & articulate compelling value propositions around AWS services.
• Accelerate customer adoption.
• Manage and support customer interactions.
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts.
• Ensure customer satisfaction.

A day in the life
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA

• Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
• Experience in engineering, computer science, or MIS
• Experience driving new business in greenfield accounts at the C-suite level or equivalent

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