Amazon

Sr. Customer Solutions Manager, Aerospace and Satellite

Amazon$153K — $207K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years leading large-scale technical or engineering programs with a track record of thought leadership and successful program completion.
  • 5+ years engaging directly with customer executives and technologists to address advanced tech business challenges.
  • Bachelor's degree in STEM fields or equivalent experience.
  • Proven ability to lead diverse project teams across functional domains.
  • 8+ years in enterprise IT as a vendor or consultant with relevant technical program management experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex customer engagements as a trusted advisor, influencing senior stakeholders to achieve measurable outcomes.
  • Drive end-to-end execution of strategic initiatives, aligning cloud adoption roadmaps with key customer milestones.
  • Identify modernization opportunities and drive significant transformation outcomes across business units.
  • Operate independently in dynamic situations, making informed decisions with incomplete information to provide clarity.
  • Design enablement programs and workshops to prepare customers for cloud transformation and AI adoption.
  • Serve as the voice of the customer within AWS, providing insights and feedback for service improvements.
  • Build scalable execution mechanisms across customer engagements while mentoring team members.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) matching and paid time off policies including parental leave.
  • Support for adoption and surrogacy reimbursements, EAP, and mental health services.
  • Flexible spending accounts for healthcare expenses.
Full Job Description
Application deadline: Jun 21, 2026

Are you passionate about helping aerospace and satellite organizations harness the power of cloud technology and AI to accelerate their missions - from orbit to the edge? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) to join our Aerospace & Satellite team. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders at commercial space, satellite, and aerospace companies - shaping strategies that influence customer transformation initiatives and driving significant outcomes across multiple business units and lines of business through modern cloud solutions.

As a Senior CSM in the AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) Aerospace & Satellite division, you will lead complex customer engagements with significant impact across multiple business outcomes. You will operate independently in dynamic, complex, and undefined situations - using high judgment and technical acumen to navigate incomplete information, make decisions despite uncertainty, and drive successful customer outcomes. You will work backwards from customer goals - whether that's deploying agentic AI workflows to automate satellite anomaly resolution, building generative AI-powered ground system operations assistants, modernizing telemetry and command platforms to fuel AI/ML insights, or accelerating launch readiness with intelligent automation - and own end-to-end execution across AWS teams to deliver results.

We help aerospace and satellite companies understand best practices around adopting cloud-based solutions, migrating existing ground systems and mission-critical workloads, implementing AI/ML capabilities for space data processing, and building organizational cloud and AI fluency. The opportunity to guide space companies through the AI revolution - from foundational data readiness to deploying agentic systems that autonomously execute complex satellite operations workflows - is unprecedented. At AWS we value critical thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to deal with ambiguity. We love people who innovate, use data to make decisions, and can express themselves thoughtfully.

This position requires 25% - 40% travel dependent on geo and time of year.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

Key job responsibilities
• Own & Influence: Lead complex customer engagements, to include Sales, Support, Solutions Architecture, Professional Services, and customer teams - acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and decision makers to deliver measurable business outcomes across multiple aerospace and satellite organizations
• Drive Strategic Execution: Own end-to-end execution of strategic customer initiatives including change management and adoption acceleration, developing and executing cloud adoption roadmaps aligned with customer business milestones - such as constellation deployments, launch campaigns, or new service offerings - negotiating resources and priorities as needed and ensuring alignment across all stakeholder groups
• Accelerate Value & Transformation: Drive significant outcomes that advance customer value and transformation objectives across multiple business units or lines of business - identifying opportunities for large-scale modernization, generative AI, agentic AI, and migrations that advance space missions and operational efficiency
• Navigate Ambiguity: Operate independently in dynamic, complex, and undefined situations, using high judgment and emerging technologies to make decisions despite incomplete information and uncertainty - providing clarity and guidance to customers and internal teams
• Enable & Govern: Design enablement programs, AI readiness assessments, governance frameworks, and executive briefing sessions that prepare aerospace customers for responsible AI adoption, successful cloud transformation, and long-term operational excellence - including real-time, hands-on customer demos and workshops leveraging emerging technology
• Advocate & Advise: Serve as the customer's trusted strategic advisor and their voice within AWS, communicating with senior customer stakeholders from technical leads to business executives - providing actionable customer insights and feedback that inform AWS service improvements, including aerospace-specific service teams
• Build, Scale & Mentor: Leverage emerging technologies to proactively build, optimize, and scale mechanisms that eliminate non-differentiated work and enable scalable execution across multiple customer engagements - developing technical best practices and approaches that enhance team capabilities and mentoring within and across teams to elevate performance

A day in the life

As a Senior CSM on the AWS Aerospace & Satellite team, you'll serve as the trusted strategic advisor and central connector between space industry customers and AWS teams. Your day might include facilitating strategy sessions with customer leadership to align cloud and AI adoption roadmaps with mission objectives, presenting transformation progress to senior leadership, and driving end-to-end execution of strategic initiatives.

You'll develop enablement plans for generative AI adoption and workload migrations, lead executive briefings and hands-on workshops showcasing aerospace use cases - such as autonomous satellite health monitoring, AI-driven orbital maneuver planning, or intelligent Earth observation pipelines - and manage critical go-live transitions. You'll also mentor team members, build scalable mechanisms across engagements, and navigate ambiguity with high judgment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 8+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience

- 5+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience

- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent

- Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams

- 8+ years of enterprise IT, either as a vendor, consultant or have prior experience working with or managing technical programs experience

- Experience in customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe certification

- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar

- Knowledge of software development lifecycle, including design, development, test, build, deployment processes and timelines

- AWS or other cloud certification

- Experience coordinating between project teams and customers to meet unique customer requirements

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.

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