Account Manager – Navy & Marine Corps, US FED DOD NAVY

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Description

How would you like to build the AWS Cloud Computing business for the United States Navy and Marine Corps? Would you like to be part of a team focused on cloud transformation and adoption of Amazon Web Services by engaging with key Defense customers, systems integrators, and solutions providers who are reinventing their IT strategy by adopting and delivering cloud computing solutions?

As a Sales Executive for Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's utility computing web services to help modernize and transform enterprise and mission systems for the Navy and Marine Corps.

In This Role, You Will

• Develop a growing book of business in the Navy and/or Marine Corps as part of a Navy sales team.
• Drive business and technical relationships and close business at a rapid rate by helping to define, identify, and pursue key opportunities.
• Establish deep business and technical relationships through your knowledge of the customer's mission and the environment.
• Have day-to-day interactions with these customers.
• Have both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at senior military and civilian levels.
• Have a technical background that enables them to easily interact with staff officers, contracting officials, software developers, and architects.
• Have experience thinking strategically about the mission, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions.
• Be able to travel as necessary.
• This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen and obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance
  
  

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US citizen.

A day in the life

Diverse Experiences

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Why AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

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Mentorship and Career Growth

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Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of Information Technology quota-carrying sales experience
• 4 years selling to the USMC/Navy
• 8 years experience meeting and exceeding sales quota
• 4 years experience working with Federal Systems Integrators and Business Partners supporting the USMC/DON and DoD
• 4 years experience with the fundamentals of cloud computing with the ability to go deep enough on technical aspects to differentiate between Cloud providers
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Secret or above
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's leadership principles requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon's functional/technical depth and complexity
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 4 years managing direct product contracts
• 2 years working within the software development and cloud computing industry highly desired
• Masters Degree and/or Computer Science or Math background highly desired
  
  

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