Senior Innovation Lead, Innovation & Transformation Programs

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Innovation Lead, where you'll collaborate with enterprise leaders to drive transformative cloud solutions. This dynamic role involves leveraging Amazon's proven methodologies to foster innovation and develop customer-centric products. You'll engage with diverse organizations, guiding them through the innovation process and making a significant impact on their business success. If you're passionate about cloud technologies and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you to shape the future of enterprise innovation.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Mentorship Programs

Career Advancement Resources

Work-Life Balance Initiatives

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in innovation and product development for enterprise customers.
• Proven track record in leading multiple projects to meet business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships with C-suite leaders to drive innovation.
• Lead end-to-end innovation engagements and workshops.

Skills

Innovation Leadership

Project Management

Cloud Solutions Understanding

Customer Engagement

Strategic Business Development

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA

Job description

Job ID: 2945880 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Would you like to help our customers innovate like Amazon, drive their transformation strategy, and maximize the potential of cloud-driven innovation?

Are you passionate about helping enterprises build customer-obsessed solutions that deliver extraordinary results?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an exceptional Innovation Leader to join our Innovation & Transformation Program (ITP) team in the UK and Ireland.

As a Senior Innovation Lead, you will work directly with enterprise C-suite leaders to drive innovation across their organizations. You'll apply Amazon's proven mechanisms including Working Backwards, Two Pizza Teams, and Day 1 thinking to help businesses develop loveable solutions that deliver breakthrough results. Your role will involve leading strategic customer engagements, delivering executive-level workshops, and guiding customers through Amazon's Working Backwards process to develop new products, services, and businesses. Your primary responsibility will be to identify, develop, and lead engagements with Enterprise customers – engaging line of business and C-suite leaders, qualifying opportunities, leading innovation and transformation engagements, and driving subsequent prototypes and scaled solutions.

You must be comfortable working in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial enterprise technology sales environment and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams. This role requires seamless coordination across various AWS groups, as many aspects of the program have interdependencies with other teams. You'll regularly engage with sales leadership, solutions architects, marketing professionals, partners, professional services, and sales enablement teams to deliver comprehensive solutions to our customers. Your ability to navigate complex organizational structures, align diverse stakeholders, and drive cohesive execution across these teams will be critical to your success in accelerating customer innovation and transformation on AWS.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of enterprise innovation while working with diverse organizations across industries. You'll be at the forefront of helping companies adopt Amazon's proven approaches to innovation and transformation, making a lasting impact on their business success.

The right candidate will have 10+ years experience delivering innovation, product development, or transformation engagements for enterprise customers. This includes demonstrated experience in developing digital innovation opportunities for customers, a proven track record of leading and driving multiple simultaneous projects to meet customer business objectives, excellent project management skills, a customer-obsessed and collaborative approach, strong data and metrics bias, a good understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for helping customers transform using cloud technologies.


Key job responsibilities

1. Develop C-suite and line-of-business relationships with leading innovators within customer organizations
2. Orchestrate and deliver end-2-end innovations and transformation engagements
3. Work with Sales leadership to identify and qualify customers for the Innovation Programs - Facilitate executive workshops, conduct customer briefings, present at customer events, further AWS solutions-led thought leadership in the innovation domain
4. Lead and coordinate the translation of those solutions into working cloud prototypes, working with relevant build teams, and partners where appropriate
5. Execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders

About the team
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.

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.

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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

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

- Bachelor's degree
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Solid understanding of innovation methodologies and translation from business strategy into execution

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MBA
- Enterprise technology business development
- Proven track record with Emerging Technologies (e.g. GenAI)
- Experience in Management Consulting

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