Account Executive - Public Sector, Enterprise - New York, Amazon Web Services

Would you like to own driving the revenue for a leader in cloud computing with state and local government customers? Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Do you have the business acumen, relationships, government sales experience, and the technical background necessary to help further establish Amazon as a leading cloud platform provider?

As an Account Executive within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help drive the adoption and growth of emerging cloud-based technologies. More importantly, you will help government customers transform their IT services and significantly improve the citizen experience.

Your responsibilities as an Account Executive on the City of New York team will be to partner with our customers and develop long-term strategies to enable their success. You will deepen business and technical relationships and launch new customer services by helping to define, identify, and pursue key opportunities. This includes determining the most effective go-to-market strategies and collaborating with AWS Solution Architects, Partners, Legal, Marketing, Product, Capture/Contracts, and Executive leadership.

You will establish deep business and technical relationships through your knowledge of the customer's goals and environment. You will have day-to-day interactions with customers and our ecosystem of partners (SIs and ISVs) that support these customers.

The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive an engagement at the CXO level as well as with software developers and IT architects. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about government priorities and technical challenges and to convey compelling technical solutions to address them.

The location for this role is New York City, New York, where the majority of your customer base works, lives, and operates.

Key job responsibilities Grow adoption and deepen cloud engagement across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania state government portfolio.

Serve as a key member of the AWS Public Sector team, helping to advance our market and technical strategy.

Articulate and implement strategic territory and account plans aligned to AWS's strategic direction.

Understand the technical considerations, certifications, and procurement processes specific to the public sector.

Identify specific prospects, partners, and channels to approach while communicating a relevant value proposition for your customer.