BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 10+ years design, implementation, consulting experience of distributed applications- 7+ years management of technical, customer facing resources- 7+ years of Storage experienceDESCRIPTIONAre you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Storage background, and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) team as a GTM Specialist.We are hiring an accomplished Senior GTM Specialist to support the growth of Storage services in Canada and enable new capabilities for our customers such as deploying Generative AI workloads on AWS infrastructure. The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which 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. We work backwards from our customer's most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to- market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.Within WWSO, this position is a part of the Go-To-Market (GTM) Specialist team, where you will lead GTM strategy for AWS' Storage. We create sales plays, leverage partners, and build new initiatives that drive results for our customers. We provide critical feedback from customers to inform our product roadmap, and work closely with our partner network to build an ecosystem supporting our customers' goals. In emerging areas, we play a critical role as the "first in" teams to build markets for new services, domains, or solutions. When a customer needs to innovate and requires a new way to leverage AWS, they count on us to innovate with them to build and deliver what they need.Key job responsibilitiesA proven track record of developing and executing GTM programs and initiatives at scale with tangible results are critical attributes that will lead to success in the role.In this role you:- Set strategic GTM direction as well as oversee execution of insights-based GTM programs and activities to grow adoption of AWS storage services- Work directly with customers to map storage, data, and AI services to deliver on their business objectives and outcomes- Use your business savvy and excellent verbal and written communication skills to develop targeted sales plays and enablement programs to help field teams capture and progress opportunities- Partner with industry teams to identify workloads, such as Generative AI, that impact our storage services- Act as a trusted business advisor to guide cross functional teams of SAs, Sales, Business Development, and Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and revenue attainment.- Represent the voice of the customer; collaborate with field and central teams to bring customer feedback to product teams. Lead curation of custom feature and availability requests for unique customer use cases. - Provide advanced technical knowledge to your aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers' largest and most critical business challenges. - Along with your extended team, own the technical bar for specialist technical artifacts and standards.- Collaborate with your GTM colleagues to provide technical insights into GTM strategy and support field marketing to execute local technical events, campaigns, and customer engagements. - Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc. - Guide and Support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts aligned to your customers. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate new AWS solutions into customer architectures. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Toronto, CanadaAbout the teamDiverse ExperiencesAWS 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 CultureHere 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 (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe'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. Work/Life BalanceWe 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.Hybrid WorkWe value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our Canada Amazon offices.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Toronto, ON, CANPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises.- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.- Strong written communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers- Working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries.- AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise.- Computer Science /relevant degree and/or experience highly desired.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $118,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/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.Salary: . Date posted: 04/24/2024 09:14 AM

Lead Solution Engineer - Enterprise, Canada

Salesforce, Toronto, Any, Canada

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job Category SalesJob Details About Salesforce We're Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too - driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good - you've come to the right place. Sales Organization DescriptionOur Sales Organization is made up of the business segments below. Within these business segments, the teams sell across multiple verticals and there are teams that sell specifically into one industry or vertical. Verticals include: Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Retail & Consumer Goods, Communications Media & Technology, Consumer Business Services, Public Sector, Professional Services, Slack, Mulesoft, Tableau, Specialization Cloud, Enterprise Corporate Sales and .ORG (Non Profit & Education).In addition, we have Core Teams that sell the entire Salesforce Platform and our Co Prime teams specialize in a specific cloud solution including but not limited to Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Heroku or Quip. Lead Solution Engineers typically align with the Enterprise Business Unit.Enterprise Business UnitEnterprise Corporate Sales (growing and managing subsidiaries within the Enterprise Parent accounts)Select (4501 - 10000 employees)Key (10001+ employees)Strategic, Strategic Enterprise, Summit (Named Accounts)Overview The Solution Engineer is a role that we often hire at Salesforce. If you are interested in any type of Solution Engineering role, you've come to the right place. We look forward to reviewing your application and finding the right role for you! By applying to the Solution Engineer role, recruiters and hiring managers who support multiple cloud offerings and verticals across the organization will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams. Please note some of these positions may be office-based, office-flexible or remote depending on the team. Do you want to be part of an outstanding team that is selling into the worlds top organizations? Come join us at Salesforce Solution Engineering team. Through collaboration with the customer, the Products team, and Professional Services the Solutions Engineers develop thoughtful solutions that help our customers connect with their customers in new ways. This unique perspective creates an opportunity for the SE to interact with the entire customer lifecycle. If you enjoy a fast-paced environment full of exciting challenges and opportunities to build compelling Solutions then the Solution Engineering Team is the department for you. The SE world is a dynamic, constantly evolving environment where expertise in design, business consulting and technology is used every day to drive innovation. The Solution Engineer must have a strong desire to demonstrate their technical and/or sales skills, including the ability to solicit business requirements, develop a technical sales strategy, configure and successfully demonstrate the solutions that address these requirements and provide business value. What roles are we looking to fill in Solutions Engineering? The SE team is organized into several smaller teams based on the products they are selling, or the industry/vertical they are selling into aligning with the sales teams, as outlined above. The Lead Solution Engineer role typically aligns with the Enterprise (largest) market segment. We are regularly looking for Solution Engineers within the Enterprise segment on both product & industry teams. Whether you are at the Lead level or beyond, we hire based on skills/experience and are open to hiring at all levels for the right candidate. Responsibilities A Solution Engineer plays a pivotal role in aligning innovative strategies to technology solutions within complex accounts. This role focuses on partnering with clients and collaborating with internal team members and C-level client contacts to drive consensus on multi-product technology solutions across the various Salesforce product lines. Solutions Engineers work on a wide array of assignments including business development, operations and IT strategies, as well as executive level product demonstrations. This person must assume the role of trusted advisor for driving innovative solutions forward while also improving business performance. Business Problem Solving: Take ambiguous and sophisticated business problems and using research and business assessment capabilities, define the problem, drive innovative ideas, define the opportunity set, and recommend practical next steps.Innovation Management: Bring focus to a client's decision making process by communicating and evaluating solution options, and driving consensus among key collaborators. In some instances, we help our clients develop new decision frameworks and governance processes that continue to deliver value far beyond a particular engagement.Connect Experiences: Demonstrate through software demos and rapid prototyping how connected experiences come to life with The Salesforce Solutions. This includes the delivery of executive level software demonstrations, construction of future state customer journey strategies, and developing long term IT roadmaps."Solutioning" is fundamental to the SE role. It is important to realize that a component of the responsibilities will include assisting the customer, Account Executive and Professional Services team with the discovery, analysis and ultimately the recommendation of strategic solutions for the customer by delivering transformational pitches based in live product demonstrations to validate. These Solutions will use all of the Salesforce technologies to address the core challenges and objectives that are uniquely identified for each customer. Discover the customer's business needs, and position the best Salesforce solution to achieve those business objectives Build and present customized solutions and demonstrations focused on Salesforce products to multiple customer personas showing how Salesforce will accelerate their business strategies and a path to value.Convey a deep understanding of the customer's architecture as it pertains to Salesforce's solutionsOrchestrate and lead cross-functional solutions guides, and align them to the opportunity strategyDevelop and deliver the story of the customer experience aided by Salesforce technologiesParticipate in all appropriate product, sales, and procedural training and certifications to acquire and maintain the knowledge vital to be effective in the positionAbility to travel based on territory alignment and region Required Qualifications: B.S. Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent relevant experience. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.) Knowledge of related applications, relational database and web technologySolid oral, written, presentation, collaboration and interpersonal communication skillsAbility to work as part of a team to solve technical problems in varied political environmentsMinimum of 4 years of professional experience Preferred Qualifications: Salesforce CertificationsPrevious experience as a solution/sales engineer for a CRM company or similar technologyBasic programming experience in HTML and other web based technologiesAccommodations If you require assistance due to a disability applying for open positions please submit a request via this Accommodations Request Form .Posting Statement At Salesforce we believe that the business of business is to improve the state of our world. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Learn more about Equality at www.equality.com and explore our company benefits at www.salesforcebenefits.com . Salesforce is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Salesforce does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Salesforce will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Salesforce . Salesforce welcomes all.Salary: . Date posted: 04/23/2024 03:09 PM