Principal, Customer Solutions Manager , Software and Technology (SWAT)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and committed support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow. AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers across the globe. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to accelerate innovation, become more agile, and lower costs. As an AWS Customer Solutions Manager (CSM), you will establish a deep understanding of your customer's business vision, culture and processes. You will lead the successful adoption of AWS, guiding customers through the people, process, and technology facets of their cloud transformation journey. You will serve as the customer’s cloud journey coach and voice of customer within AWS, evangelizing customer needs to AWS leadership, product, and engineering teams. You leverage your communication, program management, technical, operations, and transformation acumen to understand your customer's strategic goals, translate them into an executable plan, and deliver successful, often industry changing, customer outcomes on AWS. Successful candidates are motivated by the customer's long-term success, have a mix of technical and business expertise, are data and detail driven, and have experience delivering large-scale programs. You are a proven leader with the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, communicate confidently at both the executive and team levels. You collaborate with a wide range of technical and non-technical teams, while navigating across geographical and organizational boundaries. You are a natural problem solver who steers ambiguity and leads autonomously. Key job responsibilities ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: Customer Solutions Managers (CSMs) are obsessed with accelerating our customer’s cloud adoption and driving value from investments in the cloud. CSMs have ownership of customers’ cloud enablement / adoption readiness, driving migrations at scale, leading digital transformations, and benefit/ value realization for AWS customers. For effective adoption of AWS, CSMs focus on driving customers’ people and operating model change. CSMs ensure customer leaders have sufficient knowledge of AWS and establish an education strategy to up-skill technical and non-technical roles across the customer’s organization. CSM’s work closely with customer stakeholders, to define their cloud’s business case, establish a vision / roadmap for their cloud program. CSMs are customer advocates, driving resolution of blockers to migrations and new solutions on AWS by delivering successful proof of concepts and creating paths towards value realization. For migration success, digital transformation and value realization, CSMs work backwards from the customers’ cloud business case and defines the customer’s cloud migration/ digital transformation strategy which guides people, process and operating model changes for customer success. CSMs defines a detailed plan which includes key milestones collectively owned by Customer, AWS and Partner teams. CSMs partner with our customers to install and mature their Cloud Business Office capabilities, accelerate migrations and broader adoption of AWS at scale. CSMs work with our customers to establish the Cloud Leadership team and broader governance structures to effectively govern both our partnership with the customer, and the customer’s adoption of AWS. With a focus on accelerating adoption, CSMs drive the effective use of mechanisms to improve migration velocity