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Principal Customer Solutions Manager, Strategic Accounts
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What they do
A Technology Brand Ambassador represents and demonstrates a technology brand in order to promote brand awareness and sales in their market.
$142,514 / year median in California
+3% projected growth
Job Description
DescriptionAre you customer obsessed, speak AI and cloud, and want to help customers build at unbelievable scale? As an AWS Principal Customer Solutions Manager (Principal CSM), you lead the most strategic customer engagements with enterprise-wide impact, creating sustained business value for customers. You identify and solve the most intrinsically complex business and technical problems across multiple business units, geographies, and customers. As a Principal Customer Solutions Manager, you lead the most strategic customer engagements with enterprise-wide (e.g., across business units, geographies, or partner organizations) impact, creating sustained business value for customers. You identify and solve the most intrinsically complex business and technical problems across multiple business units, geographies, and/or customers, with as simple solutions as possible. You lead and execute engagements in highly undefined and rapidly evolving environments, creating and shaping strategies where information is incomplete or conflicting, creating structure and clarity for customers, partners, executives, and internal teams. Using exceptional judgment and deep technical acumen, you drive these initiatives from ambiguity to measurable results and value realization. You bring focus and strategic technical direction across enterprise-wide initiatives and cross-organizational teams, aligning entire organizations around shared outcomes. You quantify your success through long-term business impact (revenue growth, cost optimization, operational transformation, and competitive advantage), delivering transformational outcomes that help customers realize value across entire enterprises or multiple teams/business units. You orchestrate execution across enterprise workload portfolios by aligning business and technical priorities with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring long-term value realization. You translate significantly complex technical concepts into clear recommendations and strategies that change how organizations adopt technologies at scale. You guide customers through the full lifecycle of adoption and scale, ensuring technical implementations deliver quantified business results. You apply advanced technical expertise and rapidly adopt emerging technologies, including AI, to navigate complexity, making critical decisions that keep initiatives on track and accelerate delivery. You earn customer trust as a strategic advisor through solving their most complex technical challenges, shaping business outcomes and consistently delivering insights that inform long-term technical direction and business decisions. You demonstrate exceptional communication skills across all organizational levels, including the most senior level (up to and including C-suite) external stakeholders and industry partners, independently presenting and demoing to executive audiences. Every initiative you deliver is measured not only by its immediate success but by the mechanisms and best practices it leaves behind, elevating execution maturity and value realization across external and internal communities, and raising the bar for what AWS and customers can jointly achieve. Key job responsibilities As a Principal Technical Customer Solutions Manager, you will:
- Lead the most strategic, enterprise-wide customer engagements, identifying and solving highly complex business and technical problems across multiple business units, geographies, or partner organizations
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executive stakeholders, up to and including the C-suite, shaping long-term cloud and AI strategy and influencing critical business decisions
- Orchestrate execution across large, complex workload portfolios, aligning business and technical priorities across internal and external stakeholders to ensure long-term value realization
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable recommendations that change how organizations adopt and scale technology
- Apply deep technical expertise, including in AI and emerging technologies, to guide customers through the full lifecycle of cloud adoption, migration, and modernization
- Architect scaling mechanisms and best practices that improve operational efficiency and reduce friction across the customer's organization, not just within a single engagement
- Develop and mentor other team members, extending your influence and best practices across teams and, in some cases, across the broader customer solutions management community
- Partner closely with Solutions Architects, Account Managers, Enterprise Support, and Professional Services teams to ensure a unified, coordinated approach to the customer's success A day in the life A typical day starts with checking in on the initiatives you're driving forward, whether that's an upcoming executive briefing, a migration milestone, or a workshop with the customer's engineering teams.
- 3+ years of cloud computing experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience engaging with senior/executive customer stakeholders (Director+ level), serving as a trusted technical and business advisor up to C-suite
- 15+ years of experience in customer-facing technology roles (e.g., solutions architecture, customer/field engineering, technical account management, customer success, technology consulting, or enterprise technology strategy)Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
- Experience advising C-suite or VP-level executives on cloud strategy, digital transformation, or GenAI/Agentic AI strategy at an industry or enterprise-portfolio level
- Fluency with Generative AI / Agentic AI concepts, with the ability to shape strategic GenAI adoption frameworks and influence next-generation solution direction
- Experience managing a portfolio of the most complex, high-value workloads across industry verticals or enterprise-wide
- Technical depth in one or more areas: cloud migrations, application modernization, data & analytics, infrastructure optimization, security & compliance, or AI/ML/GenAI/Agentic. AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Associate, Certified AI Practitioner, Machine Learning, or equivalent) or demonstrated equivalent technical depth
- Track record of building trusted advisor relationships with external customers at the executive level, resulting in measurable business outcomes (revenue growth, workload expansion, executive sponsorship) Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, CA, Cupertino- 210,200.00
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