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Amazon Engagement Manager, Prototyping, PACE in London, United Kingdom
Description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Prototyping Engagement Manager (PEM) to lead the end-to-end lifecycle of developing prototypes with AWS customers in the UK and Ireland. This role is part of the AWS EMEA PACE (Prototyping & Customer Engineering) team and will work closely with sales and solutions architecture leadership to identify high-priority customer prototyping opportunities, qualify, scope, and manage these opportunities. PEM works in partnership with Prototyping Architects (PA) to manage & deliver prototyping engagements primary focusing on Generative AI, Data Analytics, Modernization & Edge/IoT.
The role is based in London and will might require regular travel within UK and Ireland, as well as occasional travel in EMEA.
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.
Key job responsibilities
Proactively identify customer prototyping opportunities working in close collaboration AWS account teams. PEMs dive deep to understand the customer's business as well as their technical architecture to identify opportunities or gaps that require use of emerging technology.
Work with go-to-market stakeholders in UKI (country leadership, account teams…) to develop a healthy pipeline of high impact prototyping opportunities
Establish the scope and define a working setup in collaboration with technical as well as business stakeholders of a prototype. Dive deep with selected customers to ensure positive long term returns of prototyping investments for customers and Amazon
Lead the design and execution of prototypes with prototyping architects, account teams and other stakeholders
Help customers structure their technical and organizational resources to ensure maximum benefits from adoption or leverage of the AWS cloud
Develop extensive executive and senior technical relationships within client organizations; being viewed as a trusted advisor for innovation and cloud technology
Capture learnings as well as customer feedback from engagements and drive those learnings into the wider organization to improve services and products.
Support the development of reusable assets and other artefacts leveraging the outcomes from prototypes
About the team
The AWS Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team offers a direct customer engagement program, working with customer development teams over a number of weeks, to help accelerate the design and delivery of pre-agreed and representative use cases from their roadmap. Over the course of an engagement, PACE delivers tailored co-development sessions, aligned to the customer team's specific enablement needs, with a focus on building cloud-native workloads.
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Basic Qualifications
Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
Experience managing cross-functional programs and release schedules
Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
Experience developing and executing/delivering product and technical roadmaps
Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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