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.

- Would you like to be part of a team focused on helping Australian Software businesses to succeed?
- Do you have the business acumen and technical background to partner with customers, align on AWS services and programs to best support their growth strategies?


The Software team (SW) Account Manger works with Australian software companies, creating compelling value propositions around AWS products and services to help consistently deliver on desired customer outcomes.

The blend of sales and technical skills this role requires will enable engagement at the C-Suite level, as well as with software developers and IT architects. Structured thinking and the ability to thrive in fast-paced, often complex environments will be vital to enhance the ability to support our software customers build on AWS in new ways, and help them deliver those products to the market.

Key job responsibilities
- Work with customers to accelerate their business outcomes, and recommend AWS products and services in line with business needs.
- Drive solution discussions with your customers, diving deep into the details to solve complex business and technical problems.
- Work backwards from your customers' business needs to accelerate adoption of the most appropriate AWS services.
- As a trusted advisor, use your interpersonal skills to influence a variety of stakeholders from technical teams to executives, and help ensure short-term technology choices are aligned with long-term goals.
- Help define the strategy by engaging and partnering with highly technical teams (Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, AWS professional services consultants and consulting/managed services partners).
- Act as a thought influencer in the wider community, playing a key role in educating, sharing best practices, presenting at events, writing white papers, blogs, and running workshops.
- Serve as a key member of the Software Sales team through influencing senior stakeholders across multiple domains, to ensure customer success in building solutions on AWS which align to long-term business goals.


A day in the life
As an Account Manager you will work on the most complex Software customers and opportunities, being responsible for co-developing their long-term strategy with AWS. Combining an informed view of the market with a deep understanding of emerging technology trends, you will support innovation across the segment.

As a recognised industry expert, your influence on the strategy of our customers will be built through role modelling and delivery of bar-raising guidance to the broader Software team.

About the team
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