Amazon

Principal Global Account Manager, AWS Media & Entertainment

Amazon$170K — $230K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 9+ years of technology-related sales or business development experience
  • 10 years of experience engaging with C-level executives and IT across organizations
  • Demonstrated experience in long-term transformational account strategies in customer-facing roles
  • 6+ years in entertainment marketing or media sales
  • Experience in cross-functional selling and managing large-scale technology projects

Responsibilities

  • Drive revenue growth and manage the global relationship with a top entertainment company
  • Build and maintain strategic C-level relationships across the account
  • Develop comprehensive account strategies aligned with AWS solutions
  • Collaborate with AWS resources to support customer interests and services
  • Identify and close new opportunities for cloud technology in the entertainment sector

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
  • 401(k) matching contributions
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Access to mental health support and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement options
Full Job Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced sales professional to manage and grow our global business relationship with one of the world's largest entertainment companies.

This Global Account Manager role focuses on driving revenue growth, building C-level relationships, and developing comprehensive account strategies that align AWS cloud solutions with the customer's business goals.

The Global Account Manager will be responsible for providing global business leadership and management of this global account. You will build and maintain key stakeholder relationships, develop and manage opportunities, monitor deployment projects, and engage local and extended team resources (Executives, Solution Architects, Business Development, Marketing, Partners, Support, Service teams and Professional Services) to support customer interests. This includes dotted line responsibility for downstream sales and technical resources that may be geographically distributed. You will define a CXO relationship strategy for executive sponsorships, coordinating executive business reviews, and maintaining customer satisfaction.

The ideal candidate brings deep media and entertainment industry knowledge, proven enterprise sales expertise, and the ability to engage key stakeholders in business outcome-driven conversations. You will pursue net new line-of-business customer relationships, develop and manage net new opportunities, engage resources to support opportunities, and leverage AWS senior leadership to advance partnership discussions while maintaining a trusted advisor relationship at all levels of the customer organization.

Key job responsibilities

The Global Account Manager (GAM) is responsible for teaming with the customer's Line-of-Business (LOB) and IT Organizations to build strategic relationships across the account. The GAM is responsible for selling at the most strategic levels within the account and implementing a broad strategy for earning customer trust and service implementation. The GAM will work with all appropriate AWS resources (Executives, Solution Architects, Business Development, Marketing, Partners, Support, Service teams and Professional Services) to support customer interests.

Business Skills:
• Strategic account planning and executive relationship building across global markets
• Ability to articulate business value, business outcomes, and ROI for cloud solutions
• Strong collaboration skills across cross-functional and cross-regional teams
• Experience with partner ecosystem development and co-selling
• Excellent presentation and communication skills for both technical and business audiences
• Ability to align customer business challenges to cloud-based solutions

Cloud Knowledge:
• Understanding of core cloud services relevant to entertainment and broadcast workloads (compute, storage, databases, analytics, ML/AI, edge services, content distribution, and security)
• Familiarity with cloud partner ecosystems and Professional Services capabilities

Opportunity Development & Execution:
• Identify, qualify, and close new opportunities for compute, storage, AI/ML, Media Services, and content delivery workloads
• Meet or exceed revenue targets by growing AWS revenue and market share in a defined territory
• Collaborate teammates, industry specialist's, partners, and Professional Services to evangelize entertainment and broadcast cloud use cases
• Maintain a robust sales pipeline with reliable and accurate forecasting
• Accelerate migrations and customer adoption of AWS services

A day in the life

About the team

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 9+ years of technology related sales, business development or equivalent experience

- 10 years of experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience creating and implementing long-term transformational account strategies in a customer-facing role or equivalent

- 6+ years of entertainment marketing, audio, or other media sales experience

- Experience in cross functional selling (architect, sales engineer, professional services, partner, and ISV)

- Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing large-scale technology projects for global customers

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives. 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, Santa Monica - 170,000.00 - 230,000.00 USD annually

About Amazon

Audible is a provider of spoken audio information and entertainment , on the Internet. They provide premium spoken audio content, such as audio versions of books and newspapers and radio programs, that is delivered over the Internet and played back on personal computers and hand-held electronic devices. The Audible service allows consumers to purchase and download their content from their Website, store it in digital files and play it back on personal computers and electronic devices. More than 15,000 hours of audio content are available on their Web site, including audio versions of books, periodicals and radio programs. Several manufacturers have agreed to support and promote the playback of their content on their hand-held audio-enabled electronic devices.

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