Amazon · 2 months ago
Director Technology, Cloud and AI Innovation Team
New York, New York, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$241K/yr - $350K/yr
15+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. The Director of Technology for the Cloud and AI Innovation Team will lead initiatives to enhance AWS's position in the cloud and AI sectors, focusing on customer outcomes and technical excellence.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Collaborate closely with field teams, service teams, area specialists and the WWSO GTM/Specialists to drive customer outcomes
Directly manage the Worldwide Technologist teams, sharpening their GenAI-specific skills, mapping their operational excellence expertise to revenue-aligned outcomes
Accountable interface to service lines and service line executives (including WWSO); Building and curating customer to service-line relationships; Technical and service escalation oversight - single point to check / prioritize all service line activities
Serve as the AWS executive technical sponsor for big customer initiatives
Identify patterns across Geos to help AWS publish white papers, customer technical case studies, blog posts, pre-sales first call decks, and other content important to drive scale, standardization, and repeatability
At any point in time, be driving disruptive (for the customer) technology projects
Take ownership of and lead executive briefings
Build mechanisms for sharing learnings across the team
Qualification
Required
15+ years of delivering product, architecture, and engineering results
10+ years of technology leadership managing and building teams
Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and developing technical professionals
Demonstrated leadership and strong judgement in managing growth and diversity in a fast expanding, cross functional organization
Experience successfully partnering with and communicating effectively to C-suite Executives on long term, highly strategic programs
Proven track record of senior executive engagement and ability to partner with executive leaders on closing and executing large, highly technical strategic co-development and partnership engagements
Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
Experience in working with senior leadership teams both internally and externally
Experience and ability to work in a global context with customers and colleagues
Experience with on-premises to cloud migrations, IT transformation, information security and risk management for enterprise customers
Strong judgement and business acumen in determining strategic vision and running a complex technical business
Preferred
A Master's Degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or equivalent technical degree
10+ years with architecting and deploying complex solutions for enterprise customers
5+ years with architecting and deploying cloud solutions
Large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms
Experience architecting and deploying production cloud workloads on AWS
Track record of delivering organization transformation in support of digital technology and business outcomes
Enterprise Architecture experience, certifications, and building modern cloud strategies
Familiarity at a hands-on level with AWS technologies key to operating broadcast infrastructure workloads in the cloud, including exposure to AWS
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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