AWS Global Business Development Leader, Research

The Principal, Business Development, Research will work with customers, field staff and senior leaders to develop new ideas for solutions and sales programs. They will be comfortable working in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial technology sales environment with multiple teams across more than 40 countries. Typically, cross-functional collaboration includes sales, business development, product development, solutions architecture, marketing, partners, finance, legal, and professional services.

• Lead the drafting and communication of AWS's research strategy


• Build business cases for solutions and programs with international applicability


• Share knowledge effectively across the international education team


• Engage and influence sector leaders
  
  Bachelor's degree


• Experience developing, leading, negotiating and executing corporate and/or business transactions


• Experience in a professional field or military


• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level


Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a founder or executive focused on related segments, or as a practice leader or business unit owner


• Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations


• PhD
  
  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.


The Business Development, Research, will be a recognized leader in the field, have a deep understanding of the research segment and be able to demonstrate experience in managing the development of cloud-native digital solutions and taking them to market., Research is an innovation practice - with researchers needing access to tools that enable rapid experimentation. Amazon Web Services (AWS) works with higher education institutions, research labs, and researchers around the world to offer cost-effective, scalable, and secure compute, storage, and database capabilities to accelerate time to science.

With AWS, researchers can quickly analyze massive data pipelines, store petabytes of data, and advance research using transformative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and quantum - all while securely sharing their results with collaborators around the world. AWS also provides researchers with access to open datasets, funding, and training to accelerate the pace of innovation., Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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