Amazon

Principal, Customer Solutions Manager , Software and Technology (SWAT)

Amazon$210K — $284K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in senior customer-facing roles
  • 15+ years leading complex IT or engineering programs
  • Bachelor's degree in STEM or related field
  • Proven experience with large-scale cloud technologies
  • Familiarity with current technology and market trends

Responsibilities

  • Guide customers through cloud transformation journeys
  • Develop and execute cloud migration and digital transformation strategies
  • Establish education strategies for customer teams to enhance AWS knowledge
  • Advocate for customer needs to AWS leadership and technical teams
  • Remove barriers to migration and facilitate new solutions on AWS
  • Create detailed plans for cloud enablement and adoption readiness
  • Drive operational excellence and monitor customer progress towards AWS goals

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance plans
  • 401(k) matching contributions
  • Generous paid time off
  • Parental leave policies
  • Wellness support services and Mental Health resources
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
As an AWS Customer Solutions Manager (CSM), you will establish a deep understanding of your customer's business vision, culture and processes. You will lead the successful adoption of AWS, guiding customers through the people, process, and technology facets of their cloud transformation journey. You will serve as the customer's cloud journey coach and voice of customer within AWS, evangelizing customer needs to AWS leadership, product, and engineering teams. You leverage your communication, program management, technical, operations, and transformation acumen to understand your customer's strategic goals, translate them into an executable plan, and deliver successful, often industry changing, customer outcomes on AWS.

Successful candidates are motivated by the customer's long-term success, have a mix of technical and business expertise, are data and detail driven, and have experience delivering large-scale programs. You are a proven leader with the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, communicate confidently at both the executive and team levels. You collaborate with a wide range of technical and non-technical teams, while navigating across geographical and organizational boundaries. You are a natural problem solver who steers ambiguity and leads autonomously.

Key job responsibilities

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Customer Solutions Managers (CSMs) are obsessed with accelerating our customer's cloud adoption and driving value from investments in the cloud.

CSMs have ownership of customers' cloud enablement / adoption readiness, driving migrations at scale, leading digital transformations, and benefit/ value realization for AWS customers.

For effective adoption of AWS, CSMs focus on driving customers' people and operating model change. CSMs ensure customer leaders have sufficient knowledge of AWS and establish an education strategy to up-skill technical and non-technical roles across the customer's organization. CSM's work closely with customer stakeholders, to define their cloud's business case, establish a vision / roadmap for their cloud program. CSMs are customer advocates, driving resolution of blockers to migrations and new solutions on AWS by delivering successful proof of concepts and creating paths towards value realization.

For migration success, digital transformation and value realization, CSMs work backwards from the customers' cloud business case and defines the customer's cloud migration/ digital transformation strategy which guides people, process and operating model changes for customer success.

CSMs defines a detailed plan which includes key milestones collectively owned by Customer, AWS and Partner teams. CSMs partner with our customers to install and mature their Cloud Business Office capabilities, accelerate migrations and broader adoption of AWS at scale. CSMs work with our customers to establish the Cloud Leadership team and broader governance structures to effectively govern both our partnership with the customer, and the customer's adoption of AWS. With a focus on accelerating adoption, CSMs drive the effective use of mechanisms to improve migration velocity and customers' ability to operate business applications at scale on AWS, reducing the customer's time to benefit.

The primary focus for a CSM, is serving as the cloud change agent for our customers, bringing structure, programmatic discipline and thought leadership to drive forward migration readiness, migration velocity and digital transformation/ modernization. CSMs balance bringing best practice AWS learnings to the customer, with the freedom to explore to find innovative ways to help tailor existing learnings and/or build something new that is more relevant and impactful to our customer needs on AWS. Ultimately, the CSM is driven by making sure the customer realizes their goals and ambition on AWS, key obstacles are rapidly unblocked enabling the customers cloud journey to efficient.

CSMs are measured on customer's success of cloud adoption, based on:

- cloud enablement capabilities installed to drive customers' People and Operating Model change for effective adoption of AWS. Including, training strategy to upskill technical and non-technical roles across the customer's organization.

- workloads migrated to AWS, new customer solutions built on AWS, and by the breadth of AWS services employed by the customer.

- customer engagement effectiveness, including writing effective briefing documents and establishing key relationships with stakeholders to drive migrations at scale.

- establishing and managing an outcome-driven adoption plan to realize customer's account vision and strategy while reporting on customer maturity and adoption progress.

The CSM's primary goals are to 1) drive operational excellence for the end-to-end customer engagement through program management excellence; 2) help customers develop the people, change management, organizational readiness, and technology competences required to modernize in the cloud; and 3) increase cloud value to the customer by identifying new opportunities and working with the sales team to win new business. To that end, CSMs will have expertise in program management, customer value mapping, change and organizational management, and migration/modernization execution that are unique in the account team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years of senior customer facing role experience

- 15+ years of leading complex, large-scale, IT, technical or engineering programs experience

- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, or a related field

- Experience in leading complex, large-scale, IT, technical or engineering programs

- Experience working with current technologies (especially cloud)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Knowledge of key technology and market trends

- Knowledge of the software development/engineering lifecycle from conception to delivery

- Experience implementing AWS/cloud services

- PMP/SCRUM/Agile certification or are you SAFe certified

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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.

USA, CA, San Francisco - 210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

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