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
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.
A day in the life
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
- 7+ 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
- 4+ 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe certification
- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar
- 2+ years of professional work experience, or experience with AWS services or other cloud offerings
- Experience with problem solving and disruptive innovation, developing technology programs and working across customer organizations
- Experience driving collaborative projects from conception to delivery, or experience dealing effectively with customers during problem resolution and operating efficiently under pressure
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 - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Austin - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually
