Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.

Are you passionate about creating and building inspirational, stimulating, and exciting experiences to bring people together and fostering connections, community, and growth? The Director, AWS Events will lead highly visible, large-scale events. Our events educate customers and prospects at scale, engages with AWS partners, promotes new products and services, drives revenue pipelines, builds and fosters our AWS community, and has press and analyst reach.

The Director of AWS Events will conceptualize, plan, lead, and execute events for global audiences. In this role, you will grow and establish our large-scale events (60K+ customers & partners). You will lead a team of logistic experts, event production specialists, and partner with our product marketing, technology, service, and sales teams to develop and execute on the vision and strategy for our events. You will own the global budget and revenue streams and create measurement strategies to understand and report on the effectiveness and impact of these events. You will be responsible for the entire customer journey from influencing the creative, messaging, event websites, SWAG, ticket pricing, to the onsite experience – keynotes, content, transportation, mobile app, registration, badges, breakout sessions, signage, and expo as an example.

Come build the future with us! What unites all Amazonians (across teams and geographies) is that we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier. In pursuit of delighting customers, Amazonians have developed many products and services that have transformed the way our customers live their lives and run their businesses. Together we are building the future, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.

A day in the life
To be successful in this role, you will be a creative, technically savvy leader who is driven to deliver exceptional event experiences. You have proven experience in event strategy, technology, and production. You are able to manage large scale event budgets and revenue. You are ready to lead and deliver global events that will foster connections with a growing community. You are able to simplify and articulate complex concepts to senior business leaders, while working in a fast-paced, highly cross-functional organization. You are experienced with building, developing, and running a high-functioning, diverse team.
• Manage significant efforts within the team, including operational planning, annual planning process, budgets and revenue, overall hiring plan, and the many efforts required to get the project to market and build the business.
• Design and execute project plans, communicate with key stakeholders, summarize project findings, and formulate action plans.
• Lead cross-functional teams in different geographies and business units
• Set the strategy and long-term thinking for the team
• Willingness to travel 30% or more as needed for the role