Principal Specialist Sales Rep, GenAI/ML, Financial Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Chicago, IL seeks a Generative AI and Machine Learning Specialist Seller to accelerate adoption of AWS Gen AI services among Financial Services customers. You will own the full sales cycle—from identifying high-value opportunities to closing deals—engaging with C-suite leaders and coordinating with solution architects to tailor AI solutions for business impact.

This role demands strategic thinking, strong technical acumen, and the ability to translate business

Qualifications

10+ years of full sales cycle, technology sales or equivalent experience.
Experience conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences.
Experience with C-level sales and strategic partnership building.
Experience communicating results to senior leadership, or building financial models for forecasting.

Responsibilities

Accelerate customer adoption by defining and implementing tech domain specific sales strategies within accounts and technology domain.
Ideate with Line of Business and C-suite leaders, building trust with technical expertise, and driving solutions.
Act as the front line within accounts for all specialist customer engagement in your tech domain.
Create & articulate compelling value propositions addressing customer needs.
Develop sales motions on new product launches and collaborate with product teams on innovations.

Skills

C-level sales

Strategic partnerships

Complex technical concepts

Forecasting / financial modeling

Tools

CRM software

Job description

Description

Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping Financial Services Industry (FSI) customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning background, and sales skills necessary to help companies transform their industries by positioning Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the Generative AI service provider of choice? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Do you want to join Generative AI Specialty sales organization, one of the fastest-growing organization within AWS? Join the US AWS Global Sales organization as a Generative AI and Machine Learning Specialist Seller! Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping Financial Services Industry (FSI) customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning background, and sales skills necessary to help companies transform their industries by positioning Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the Generative AI service provider of choice? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Do you want to join Generative AI Specialty sales organization, one of the fastest-growing organization within AWS? Join the US AWS Global Sales organization as a Generative AI and Machine Learning Specialist Seller! As a Generative AI Sales Specialist, you will be at the forefront of driving adoption and revenue growth for AWS's Generative AI services. Your role will involve identifying high-value customer opportunities within a specific territory and engaging with AWS customers to understand their needs and align them with AWS Generative AI solutions. You will leverage your consultative expertise to become a trusted advisor, guiding customers in embedding and deploying AWS Generative AI solutions to unlock new value streams and solve key business problems using AI capabilities. With a passion for developing high-potential opportunities and executing effective strategies, you will own the full-cycle sales engagement plan, from identifying qualified leads to realizing revenue. You will understand a customer’s business initiatives, help craft account plan to achieve those initiatives, identify and drive opportunity win plans to enabling those business initiatives, and ensure successful launch to realize both customer vision and AWS revenue. You will earn trust with Line of Business, Data Science, and IT personas. You will understand detailed business drivers in your forecast, and intentionally work the best opportunities that maximize your ability to hit revenue goals. You will maintain an in-depth knowledge of AWS's Generative AI services and relevant cross-functional areas to build strong relationships with customers. By driving the adoption of emerging Generative AI technologies, you will play a pivotal role in propelling AWS's revenue growth while helping customers stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. You exercise learn & be curious to articulate AWS' Gen AI strategy and the services we offer to accelerate these workloads. You conduct compelling executive conversations on the transformational possibilities of generative AI and data, while also being capable of helping our customers navigate which services to evaluate for their use-cases. You can describe the \"why\" and \"what\" of generative AI use case and technical solutions at a 200-level, with the detailed \"how\" being provided by solution architects.

Diverse Experiences

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Why AWS

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Mentorship and Career Growth

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Key job responsibilities

Accelerate customer adoption by defining and implementing tech domain specific sales strategies within your assigned accounts and technology domain. Your strategies will leverage AWS Sales and our partner ecosystem.

Ideate with Line of Business and C-suite leaders, building trust with your deep technical expertise, and following through to help solve their most compelling business problems.

Act as the front line within your accounts for all specialist customer engagement in your tech domain.

Create & articulate compelling value propositions that address specific needs of your customers.

Build and innovate: Co-Develop sales motions on new product launches and work with product teams on the creation of innovative new services.

Partner with the world’s biggest system integrators to deliver on customer projects.

Spearhead market expansion by pinpointing new customer segments and Gen AI use cases

Collaborate cross-functionally to continuously strengthen AWS's Gen AI value proposition

Gather voice-of-customer insights to inform product roadmaps and enhance the customer experience

Drives conversations to build credibility and earn trust with the account teams and customers.

Drive sales efforts spanning multiple lines of business with decision-making authority and budget ownership.

Engage systems integrators and closely collaborate with AWS partners to deliver maximum customer value

Develop and deliver compelling ROI to drive adoption of AWS Gen AI solutions

A day in the life

You're surrounded by innovation. You're empowered with a lot of ownership. Your growth is accelerated. The work is challenging. You have a voice here and are encouraged to use it. Your experience and career development is in your hands. We live our leadership principles every day. At Amazon, it's always \"Day 1\".

Basic Qualifications

Experience conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences

Experience communicating results to senior leadership, or experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving

Experience with C-level sales and strategic partnership building

10+ years of full sales cycle, technology sales or equivalent business development, sales engineering/consulting or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the financial services industry

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)