Amazon - San Francisco, CA
posted 4 months ago
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services. As a Cloud Economics Business Development Manager within AWS, you will help AWS customers and prospective customers shape their information technology strategies and IT financial models, and quantify the benefits of running applications in the cloud. To do this, you will work with AWS partners and other groups within AWS to give AWS customers the best insights into how to run their applications on AWS, in the most cost effective manner. You will identify economic barriers to adoption of AWS with these customers and develop repeatable strategies to overcome these barriers. You will communicate the economic value proposition for AWS to a broad audience of IT leaders. You will engage with AWS partners, including ISVs, to address concerns regarding software license management. You will also be expected to be the focal point within AWS for all TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), ROI (Return on Investment) and cost efficiency business development activities. Your responsibilities will include supporting customers as they assess the business value/economic potential of migrating and operating on AWS and working directly with AWS Sales and BD teams. You will serve as an expert resource on the financial modeling of IT infrastructure. In appropriate cases, you will bring in other AWS resources as necessary to help our customers properly evaluate their IT options from an economic perspective. You will possess a business and IT background that enables you to drive an engagement and interact with key decision makers for our AWS customers, and the technical depth and business experience to easily communicate the economic benefits of cloud computing. You will also be deeply familiar with complex legacy IT environments, with data center economics including data center migration and refresh cycles, with common enterprise virtualization environments, and be capable of creating detailed cost models for these environments. You will have demonstrated abilities to influence decision makers in a consultative selling approach to progress decision making through their personal involvement with developing and presenting a compelling business case.