Description

　　Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

　　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 AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

　　AWS Professional Services Industry Specialists (IS) are focused on envisioning and delivering customer outcomes across complex media workloads for our Media and Entertainment (M&E) customers using AWS cloud services and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) solutions. They deliver solution guidance, support POC’s (Proof-of-Concepts), lead assessments and discovery projects, develop thought leadership including assets and represent AWS at leadership events, industry forums, and summits.

　　We are looking for a Principal IS to help M&E customers envision and drive transformations in the area of sell-side Advertising optimization. As an Advertising Industry Specialist, it will be your responsibility to engage early with M&E executives as they look to leverage the depth and breadth of AWS Services, ISV Partner solutions, and custom AI/ML models to help them optimize the pitch-to-pay performance across linear TV and digital properties.

　　AWS Industry Specialists:

　　• Collaborate directly with global M&E customers and partners addressing workflow performance, cloud workloads, security, compliance, scale, availability and manageability.

　　• Provide leadership to customers looking for solutions to transform their existing media workloads using Cloud technology.

　　• Act as the voice-of-the-customer to oversee engagements and assist with non-technical change management work on policies, procedures, operations and people.

　　• Acquire new technology skills and serve as trusted advisors for internal and external customers including global M&E customer architects and IT leaders

　　• Work across multiple AWS engineering teams introducing and refining new platforms, solutions and web-based services for M&E conglomerates, major studios, music labels, OTT streaming services, new media companies, live events companies, location-based entertainment, production and postproduction companies.

　　• Develop and publish best practices and repeatable assets inclusive of AWS Partners to accelerate our customer’s transition to cloud-based AWS services.

　　Key job responsibilities

　　Advertising Technology (AdTech) Workload Transformation Ideation: Envision data-driven solutions to support customer’s needs in optimizing and modernizing their sell-side advertising business across linear TV and digital assets and facilitate cross-platform ad buying, fulfillment, and measurement.

　　Technology Leadership – Define and design solutions that exceed customer expectations based on the use of AWS services and partners.

　　Customer Engagements – Conduct workshops with senior M&E executives in the Ad Ops, Ad Tech, and Ad Product organizations to capture their current state and envision solutions for accelerating their optimizations in a quantifiable manner. Develop project proposals and solution architectures to deliver on customer requirements. Stay engaged as the customer champion through all phases of project delivery to ensure value realization.

　　Industry Leadership- Lead AWS architecture discussions, cloud operations optimization, AWS migrations, security and integration of AWS services supporting global M&E customer requirements.

　　Develop Partnerships – Develop M&E industry solution roadmaps for clients, partners and service providers. Drive collaboration and integration between multiple partners to deliver comprehensive solutions for large M&E industry clients.

　　Industry Expertise Transfer –Work with global AWS professional services leadership to grow the AWS Professional Services (ProServe) Practice. Work with ProServe leadership to stay-ahead of the leading-edge platform services and be able to deploy quickly. Support best practices efforts for all AWS and Partners.

　　Customer Advocacy - Work with AWS engineering groups, technology and professional services teams conveying customer requirements, driving inputs into short-term and long-term AWS technology roadmaps.

　　Industry Shows and Organizations – Participate in key industry trade shows, session panels, keynotes, industry groups, technology organizations and technology standards board’s directly conveying AWS corporate messaging and driving new industry wide engagements as necessary.

　　About the team

　　Diverse Experiences

　　AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

　　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.

　　Inclusive Team Culture

　　Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

　　Mentorship & Career Growth

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　　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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

　　EEO/Accommodations

　　AWS is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace to deliver the best results for our customers. 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; we celebrate the diverse ways we work. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please let us know and we will connect you to our accommodation team. You may also reach them directly by visiting please https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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

　　Chicago, IL, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Mountain View, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | West Hollywood, CA, USA

　　Basic Qualifications

　　Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or Engineering.

　　10+ years of progressive working experience in Advertising Technology roles within the M&E industry.

　　Experience with AdTech technologies that support linear and digital advertising for planning, order management, trafficking, measurement, and billing such as SalesForce, MediaOcean, Operative, Wide Orbit, Google Ad Manager, Imagine, Freewheel, Liveramp, Neilsen, Moat, etc.

　　Working experience with leveraging advanced data services to drive tangible results.

　　Experience with Data Ingestion, Data Stewardship, and Data Science technologies and frameworks (such as Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis, EMR, Data Lakes, Data Zone, SageMaker, Athena, etc.).

　　Preferred Qualifications

　　Experience in core statistics, operational research, and algorithms (Greedy, Linear Programming, etc.)

　　Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or Engineering

　　Experience architecting, deploying and operating cloud-based solutions with AWS

　　M&E Vertical industry sales and delivery experience using industry standard technologies as well as leading-edge technology services and solutions.

　　Experience with the design of modern, scalable delivery solutions for technology consulting services.

　　Experience using AWS services in distributed environments with Key AWS M&E industry cloud ecosystem partners.

　　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.

　　Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

　　Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

　　Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $146,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284,300/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, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.