Senior Account Executive, NatSec

Description

World Wide Public Sector team is looking for an exceptional Senior Account Executive candidate to join our National Security Sales Team to support a critical US Intelligence Community (USIC) customer and federal law enforcement customer.

In the role of Account Executive supporting customers in DC and Virginia, you will spend the majority of your time driving customer, account team, and program management office initiatives. This role will be responsible for liaising between the partners and account teams driving major strategic initiatives and being an advocate for the customer as they continue their cloud journey.

You must be comfortable working across a highly matrixed environment to solve complex business problems. An ability to understand customer requirements and how they translate into cloud technology is required. Demonstrated past performance leading and growing DoW, Federal Civilian or National Security programs and engaging across multiple systems integrators and partners is essential. Experience communicating and working with system integrators and with federal government customers at all levels is key to success.

The role requires the successful candidate to bring experience, have sounds judgment, possess established negotiation skills, and have an ability to influence, earn trust, and deliver successful outcomes working with key partners and government stakeholders to accelerate growth.

This position is based in Arlington, VA.

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. Amazon's culture is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're 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.

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 aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life-both in and outside of work.

With this flexibility comes a responsibility to adjust quickly, take ownership and deliver results in both a collaborative and independent environment.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance.

Key job responsibilities

- Establish and drive a strategic sales plan for specific customer and ensure alignment with the Account Plan.

- Lead account partner engagements focused on moving from first engagement to active project/program moving to AWS. Identify specific prospects/partners/channels to approach while communicating the specific value proposition for their business and use case.

- Work closely with Solutions Architects to provide cloud solutions to business problems.

- Work with the Capture team to shape strategic deals and leverage contract vehicles to advance the mission using those programs

- Create, build, and progress a pipeline of opportunities using CRM tools to track progress, next steps, sales stage, and close dates.

About the team

As one of the National Security (Nat Sec) Account Teams, you will be a part of a team…