Strategic Partner Enablement Lead, AWS

Channel Partners

$150K — $165K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in partner success or related fields within enterprise technology.
  • Prior experience in the AWS Partner Network or similar hyperscaler ecosystems preferred.
  • Strong understanding of AWS technologies and their applications in business contexts.
  • Ability to translate complex technical topics for diverse audiences.
  • Experience in designing and delivering learning programs for external partners or customer-focused teams.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
  • Proven program management capabilities to handle multiple priorities efficiently.

Responsibilities

  • Lead enablement initiatives for AWS partnerships.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with AWS alliance leaders and stakeholders.
  • Execute against strategic priorities and partnership objectives.
  • Coordinate enablement activities across various AWS teams and communities.
  • Identify and promote adoption of existing enablement programs.
  • Create scalable learning experiences for multiple audiences.
  • Deliver workshops and readiness programs focusing on practical application of AI capabilities.

Benefits

  • Bi-weekly pay with early wage access.
  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • Employee discounts available.
  • Referral bonus program.
  • Flexible spending accounts for various tax savings opportunities.
Full Job Description
At A Glance

Take the lead in shaping partner success across a strategic portfolio of AWS partnerships, creating scalable enablement experiences that accelerate AI adoption, strengthen customer outcomes, and drive measurable business impact.

As the primary enablement lead for AWS-focused initiatives, you will build upon an established and growing partner ecosystem, helping AWS sales, technical, customer success, and leadership teams develop practical expertise, accelerate AI adoption, and create stronger customer outcomes. This is a mature, multi-program environment where success comes from sustaining momentum, optimizing existing programs, and scaling impact across established stakeholder groups. Key objectives include:
  • Accelerate adoption and reach of existing AWS enablement programs.
  • Expand participation across sales, technical, customer success, and leadership audiences.
  • Improve readiness, engagement, and advocacy within established partner communities.
  • Drive measurable growth in enablement participation, learning consumption, and partner champion development.


Minimum Pay

USD $150,000.00/Yr.

Maximum Pay

USD $165,000.00/Yr.

What We Offer

  • Bi-weekly pay and early wage access - get paid when you need it!
  • Health and wellness benefits plans
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • 401(k) with employer matching
  • Employee discounts
  • Referral bonus
  • Tax savings with flexible spending accounts for parking, transit, dependents, and healthcare costs
  • Opportunity to work with a growing company that actively rewards and promotes its employees


What You'll Do

  • Serve as the primary enablement and success lead for AWS-focused partnership initiatives.
  • Build trusted relationships with AWS alliance leaders, enablement stakeholders, field sales teams, industry specialists, solutions architects, and partner success teams.
  • Partner closely with AWS alliance and enablement stakeholders to execute against established strategic priorities and partnership objectives.
  • Lead regular planning discussions, stakeholder reviews, business updates, and readiness conversations across AWS partner audiences.
  • Identify opportunities to increase adoption, engagement, and effectiveness of existing enablement programs.
  • Coordinate enablement activities across AWS field sales, industry specialists, alliance teams, and technical communities.
  • Develop scalable enablement experiences that support sales, technical, customer success, and customer-facing audiences.
  • Translate AI capabilities, customer use cases, and go-to-market priorities into practical learning experiences and readiness programs.
  • Deliver workshops, executive briefings, office hours, train-the-trainer sessions, learning pathways, and champion programs.
  • Expand existing learning pathways, certification-related readiness initiatives, and partner advocacy programs.
  • Help stakeholders build confidence positioning, supporting, and expanding AI-related customer opportunities.
  • Support readiness across sales, technical, customer success, and leadership audiences while building and nurturing partner champions throughout the AWS ecosystem.
  • Scale successful enablement programs across geographies, industries, and partner audiences.
  • Drive alignment between partnership priorities and internal enablement initiatives to maximize partner impact and customer outcomes.


What You'll Bring

Experience and Education:
  • Prior experience within the AWS Partner Network (APN) ecosystem or a comparable hyperscaler partner program strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with AWS's internal seller structure, including field sales motions, industry-vertical specialists, and champion/advocate program models.
  • Comfort operating within an existing strategic framework and executing against an established roadmap, rather than building a program from the ground up.
  • 8 or more years of experience in partner success, strategic partnerships, partner enablement, customer success, learning and development, consulting, or a related field within enterprise technology.
  • Experience designing and delivering learning or enablement programs for external partners, customer-facing teams, or enterprise technology audiences.
  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms, data ecosystems, enterprise software, or AI technologies, with the ability to learn new products and technical concepts quickly.
  • The ability to translate complex technical topics into relevant, accessible learning experiences for both technical and business audiences.
  • Experience partnering with sales, solutions architecture, product, customer success, alliances, and other cross-functional teams.

Skills and Attributes:
  • Strong understanding of AWS cloud technologies, cloud go-to-market motions, and partner ecosystems.
  • Understanding of AWS industry sales motions and cloud ecosystem dynamics.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management, relationship-building, and influence skills.
  • Strong facilitation, consulting, presentation, and communication capabilities.
  • Ability to scale programs and drive adoption across large, complex partner organizations.
  • Strong program management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
  • Executive presence and the ability to build credibility with leaders across partner and internal organizations.
  • Data-driven mindset with the ability to evaluate program effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.

What Success Looks Like:
  • Establish trusted advisor relationships with partners and align enablement plans to partnership strategies.
  • Drive participation across partner sales, technical, customer success, and leadership audiences.
  • Increase training attendance, workshop participation, certifications/badges, stakeholder engagement, and program reach.
  • Improve partner product knowledge, confidence, and readiness to support customer and technical use cases.
  • Deliver high-value enablement experiences that partner stakeholders view as responsive and aligned to business needs.
  • Provide internal teams with visibility into partner priorities, program performance, and improvement opportunities.
  • Contribute to stronger strategic partnerships, increased partner-led customer engagement, and partner-influenced business growth.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to:
  • Regularly sit, stand, walk, grasp, talk, and/or hear, and drive
  • Occasionally lift and carry items up to 10 lbs
  • Continuous hand/eye coordination and fine manipulation


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