Customer Success Manager (Transformation Advisor), Enterprise Retail & CPG

As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Customer Solutions Manager you will be responsible for accelerating customers cloud and AI transformation journeys. In this new, highly visible, role you will be ensuring that all AWS teams are working together effectively and efficiently to deliver outcomes for the customer.

You will be a critical partner to our customers, leveraging your experience with large scale cloud and AI transformations and helping shepherd them through their stages of AWS adoption. Guiding the customer through the operational, educational and governance aspects of a successful AWS cloud journey.

The successful candidate will work with the customer to design and execute strategic migrations to the AWS cloud, accelerate innovation and adoption of the latest AI technologies, and build modern, cloud native solutions that fulfil their highest ambitions. You will interface with customer and AWS leadership, driving collaboration between the other core account groups (Sales, Support, Solutions Architecture and Professional Services), product/engineering teams, and customer teams, planning and supporting major customer workload migrations and innovation objectives. You will translate strategic initiatives in the account plan into executable actions, working backwards from our customers key milestones. You will manage cadence by leading the reporting and tracking functions along the way. The execution of education plans, roadmap to business outcome alignments, Executive Briefing Sessions, and go-live events and transitions are a few items owned by the CSM that are critical to the success of our customer’s cloud journey.

You are encouraged to think big, invent and take ownership on customer challenges. You will not only bring the best of AWS/ Amazon to our customers, you will proactively help solve the customer’s challenges through new ideas, tools and mechanisms.

Successful candidates will have a strong technical background, be detail driven, have excellent problem solving abilities, and be exemplary communicators both at the executive and project team level. You will be a peer leader, have the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, negotiate and lead cross-functional teams. Your enterprise cloud experience and operational excellence will influence the team’s decisions, provide insight, and help drive secure and robust solutions.

You will evangelize AWS services and influence customers for adopting them. You should be passionate about delivering a great customer experience by deploying AWS solutions and driving innovation, and also be obsessed with contributing to the day-to-day management of the customers successful migration to AWS.

Key job responsibilities
• Drive measurable business outcomes by leading cloud and AI transformation engagements, accelerating value realization across migration, adoption, and strategic technology launches.
• Identify and address the systemic barriers that stall customers in their transformation journeys, helping customers build the governance, operating models, and data infrastructure needed to sustain progress.
• Initiate and lead executive-level engagements, co-innovation sessions, and strategic summits, expanding relationships across Lines of Business, Product, and Technology.
• Provide program-wide visibility and coordination across multiple workstreams, applying structured delivery mechanisms and measurement frameworks to ensure customers realize the value of their AWS investment.
• Develop repeatable mechanisms, contribute to internal enablement, and share best practices and thought leadership in public forums to advance the cloud ecosystem

A day in the life
This role sits at the intersection of technology and business strategy. You don't need to build cloud infrastructure, but you need to understand it well enough to earn the trust of the engineers who do. You might translate a complex AI solution into a business case for a CFO, advise a client on migrating critical workloads to the cloud, and align stakeholders across a large, matrixed organizations. If you thrive in environments where technical depth and executive communication are equally valued, this role is for you.

About the team
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 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.

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 (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience
- 3+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
- Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams
- Experience engaging and influencing senior executives, demonstrating a strong familiarity with decision-making processes in enterprise customers

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- AWS or other cloud certification
- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.