Principal Customer Solutions Manager, Strategic

DescriptionAre you customer obsessed, speak cloud, and want to help customers build at unbelievable scale? Come join a collaborative and talented team, dedicated to helping customers achieve new possibilities leveraging AWS. As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Principal Customer Solutions Manager you will work with the largest and most complex enterprises in the world, and enable their multi-year journey to the cloud. 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. Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazonu2019s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we arenu2019t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, weu2019re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced lifeu2014both in and outside of work. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and weu2019re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future. You will be a trusted advisor to our customers. You will leverage your program management, technical, organizational, and transformation expertise to understand your customer's business and strategic goals, translate those goals into an executable plan, and drive that plan to successful outcomes. You will understand your customers' biggest IT challenges, and provide prescriptive guidance, based on AWS best practices, navigating the customer through the operational, educational, and governance aspects of a successful AWS cloud journey. You will take end-to-end ownership of a diverse range of projects and initiatives, interfacing and influencing amongst the other core account groups (Sales, Support, Solutions Architecture, and Professional Services), product/engineering teams, and customer teams. You will evangelize AWS services and influence customers to adopt the right solution at the right time. You should be passionate about delivering a great customer experience by deploying AWS solutions, driving innovation, and delivering successful migration programs. 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 customeru2019s challenges through new ideas, tools and mechanisms. In addition to your customer facing responsibilities, you will help shape the rapidly growing Customer Solutions Management function, where your passion to define and implement standard processes, methodologies, and tools will be highly valued. Successful candidates will have a strong technical background, be aware of details that matter, 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, and negotiate and lead virtual teams, regardless of geographical or organizational boundaries. Your enterprise cloud experience and operational excellence will influence the teamu2019s decisions, provide insight, and help drive secure and robust solutions. About the team AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the 8 description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasnu2019t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, donu2019t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worldu2019s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating u2014 thatu2019s 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, itu2019s 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 (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth Weu2019re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earthu2019s Best Employer. Thatu2019s why youu2019ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, thereu2019s nothing we canu2019t achieve in the cloud. 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. The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.Basic Qualifications- 10+ years of senior customer facing role experience - 15+ years of leading complex, large-scale, IT, technical or engineering programs experience - Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, or a related field - Experience in a senior customer-facing role - Experience in leading complex, large-scale, IT, technical or engineering programs - Experience working with current technologies (especially cloud)Preferred Qualifications- PMP/SCRUM/Agile certification or are you SAFe certified - Knowledge of key technology and market trends - Knowledge of the software development/engineering lifecycle from conception to delivery - Experience implementing AWS/cloud services 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 Companyu2019s 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 for more information. If the country/region youu2019re applying in isnu2019t 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 . USA, CA, Mountain View - 210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually USA, CA, Santa Monica - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually

Created: 2026-03-07