Director, Enterprise Strategist

Are you an enterprise executive that has led the transformation of your business using the cloud? Have you used the power of data and AI/ML to achieve business outcomes? Can you help executives and leaders from around the business understand the value of ground-breaking technology and how to use them to improve agility? Have you led a large business and cultural transformation? Have you built and scaled ground-breaking products, data-driven solutions, and AI/ML powered applications?

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're hiring enterprise strategists to guide our enterprise efforts and advise the largest companies’ executives on how they can transform the way they use technology to deliver business value. Our enterprise strategists combine their personal experiences building on AWS with learnings from other customers, to help enterprises understand and realize the business value they can unlock using the AWS platform. This role shares authentic peer-level experience with customers, extracts and articulates patterns to develop thought leadership, and develops strategies to help AWS support enterprise executives better. The team’s experience and thought leadership is shared through direct customer interactions and AWS channels such as the AWS Enterprise Strategy Blog (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/) and AWS Executive Insights (https://aws.amazon.com/enterprise/executive-insights/).

Key job responsibilities
Ideal candidates will be able to speak to all aspects of business transformation in large organizations including leadership, change management, technology, operations, security, business case development, and budgeting. In particular they will be able to help enterprises understand and navigate to a future state of these processes to capitalize on the unique power of the cloud. Enterprise strategists are expected to author content such as blog posts, create executive presentations and other customer-facing content, deliver that content to customers both individually and at events with audiences ranging from dozens to thousands of people, and to ensure our customers and partners are successful building and transforming their business on AWS. Finally, enterprise strategists will work with our internal teams to refine our services, and commercial strategy for enterprises.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Virtual Location - IL | Virtual Location - TX | Virtual Location - WA

Basic Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree; Masters/MBA degree preferred.
- 10+ years in a leadership/executive position.
- Executive role leading a large in-house digital, product, technology, or data-analytics (e.g. CDO, CPO, CAO, CIO, CTO).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including group leadership and executive presentations.
- Be mobile and travel to client locations as needed.
- Estimated 40-60% travel requirement.
- Pre-established credibility, contacts, and recognition in speaking engagements and technology publications is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

We are looking for someone who is passionate about:
- Shaping a vision and strategy to help organizations achieve their goals.
- Driving change within large organizations.
- Positioning how technology can solve business problems.
- Working with a diverse set of executive stakeholders.
- Authoring and delivering content that helps shape the way the industry looks at cloud computing.

and can demonstrate the ability to:
- Lead major transformation using the AWS cloud inside of large organizations.
- Manage executive-level relationships both internally and externally.
- Articulate how to implement large-scale change.
- Deliver enterprise-wide technology transformations.
- Design, build, and operate global teams.
- Innovate using cloud, data, and AI/ML.
- Empathize with, and influence change in, large and complex organizations that move the status quo.
- Establish themselves as a thought leader
- Identify, experiment with, and scale mechanisms to improve and increase executive engagement.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $197,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $350,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge,