• BA/BS degree required. Masters or MBA a plus.
• 5+ years of technology related business development experience
• Fluent in both English and Chinese

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com Company, has been the world’s leading cloud provider for more than 17 years with the most mature, comprehensive, and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has over 200 fully featured cloud services, managed from 81 availability zones within 25 geographic regions across the globe. Millions of customers in over 190 countries - from the fastest growing start-ups to the largest enterprises, through to leading government agencies - all place their trust in AWS to power their infrastructure, and deliver innovation.

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.

As a Territory Business Development Manager working with Amazon Web Services, you will have the exciting opportunity to help promote the growth and shape the future of an emerging technology. Your responsibilities will include increasing adoption, and market penetration in both medium and large enterprise accounts.

The ideal candidate will possess both a business development and technical background that enables him or her to engage at the CXO level as well as with software developers and IT infrastructure and software designers and architects. You must also be a self-starter who is prepared to develop and execute against a territory coverage plan business objectives.

Key job responsibilities

• Identify key aspects of potential new opportunities, progress opportunities to launch, influence on customer cloud adoption
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts
• Develop and execute against a comprehensive account/territory plan including outbound calling against established target lists
• Create and articulate compelling value propositions around AWS services, develop AWS use case studies
• Engage with AWS partners, Solutions Architects to develop business development strategies, extend reach, develop relationships and drive joint success
• Possess the technical ability to explain (not implement) Cloud Computing, infrastructure solutions (Server, Storage, Networking, DC Services), Internet architectures (firewalls, load balancers, etc) and Management Tools
• Forecast the territory performance per month against quota, cost optimize customers, and maintain a robust sales pipeline and related territory target lists in Salesforce.com
• Exceed set business objectives and ensure customer satisfaction

A day in the life
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• Business Development experience with virtualization/infrastructure solutions a bonus
• Ability to learn, be curious and act independently within a fast-paced multi-task driven environment
• Understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers and emerging computer trends
• Strong interpersonal skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills