Sr. Customer Success Specialist - Connect, AWS Specialist and Partner Organization

Senior • On-site

$138,200 - $239,000/yr

Sunnyvale, CA , +5

DESCRIPTION

As Sr. Customer Success Specialist Connect within the AWS Specialists & Partners (ASP) Customer Success Center of Excellence org, you will drive enterprise adoption and measurable customer business value realization for Amazon Connect suite of services by developing and executing comprehensive customer success strategies. You will architect the frameworks, programs, and playbooks that enable AWS teams and partners to unlock value for customers through optimal adoption of Amazon Connect suite of services. This role combines strategic thinking with operational excellence and Amazon Connect focused technical aptitude to create repeatable, scalable mechanisms, and assets, that transform how AWS and our partners deliver customer success.

The Amazon Connect Customer Success Specialist (CSS) will create a matrix environment with resources from our partner community, Professional Services, AWS account teams, and Connect service team members to drive customer success. A CSS will run attach service plays, customer engagements to drive adoption of migrating services, work with our partner community to scale and align key members of the services team for optimization and retention efforts. Last, a CSS will uncover cases that align to Connect unique business value to be shared with AWS Marketing.

The ideal candidate will have enterprise sales and/or consulting experience in Contact Center as a Service or similar SaaS solutions in areas such as telecommunications, VoIP, and/or or CRM/ERP applications. You will be passionate about customer experience and advocacy and bring the voice of the customer into the product development process. You will enjoy solving complex problems; our customers will rely on your guidance to scale Connect across their complex global businesses, overcoming technical and organizational roadblocks on the way.

Key job responsibilities
Strategic customer engagement:
- Develop and execute customized success plans with customer’s enterprise adoption strategy and business goals for respective service domain.
- Develop and scale customer success programs through respective service domain teams and partner success team.
- Engage with customer employee personas to understand their unique needs and challenges; design and deliver tailored technical workshops and enablement programs to accelerate adoption.
- Orchestrate executive alignment and stakeholder buy-in for adoption initiatives and customer advocacy programs.
Adoption program development:
- As an adoption expert, create and maintain best practices documentation, implementation guides, and training materials to be applied across multiple service domains.
- Track and analyze adoption metrics to measure effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
- Develop governance frameworks for sustainable adoption at scale across domains.
Customer success management:
- Monitor customer health dashboards and proactively address potential risks or adoption barriers to customer business value realization.
- Drive customer advocacy through success story documentation and advocacy program participation.
Product feedback loop:
- Collect and communicate customer feedback, insights, and requirements to Go-To-Market teams.
- Analyze trends in customer requests and pain points to identify potential product improvements.

About the team
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.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

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 conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and 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

- 5+ 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
- 2+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent
- Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe 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.

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 Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Amazon

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