Global Sales Leader, AWS Industries (AWSI)

AWS Strategic Industries (AWSI) represents the company's largest, most sophisticated customers. AWSI is growing its leadership team. We are looking for a Global Sales Leader who can build, develop, and inspire a high-performing team while driving adoption and expansion across AWS’ full-service portfolio, with a particular emphasis on AI workloads that are transforming how our customers operate.

As a Global Sales Leader, you will lead a team of eight to 10 sellers focused on expanding the reach of our account teams: building relationships and launching workloads in new and emerging business units and lines of business. You will operate at the intersection of team development, GTM strategy, and AI-driven business transformation, helping customers move from experimentation to production-scale AI adoption.


Key job responsibilities
As a Global Sales Leader, you will build and lead a team of eight to 10 sellers, including hiring and developing early-career talent into the next generation of AWS sales leaders. You will own net new revenue targets across multiple territories across industries, maintain a robust pipeline, and coach and leverage the use of AI to drive customer outcomes and team efficiency and productivity. You will build executive relationships, partner cross-functionally to remove blockers, and stay fluent in the AWS service portfolio. Through operational and sales discipline and standards, you will create a high-performance, scalable sales culture and team.

About the team
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Why AWS?
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- • AI fluency to increase organization efficiency and team productivity
- • Consecutive track record of delivering double- and triple YoY growth against multi-million-dollar quotas
- • Strong cross-functional influence and leadership skills
- • Track record of hiring and developing high-performing enterprise sales teams

Preferred Qualifications

- • Experience in one or more industries: Automotive, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Media and Entertainment, Retail, and/or Telecommunications
- • Passion for coaching and developing sellers across experience levels, including early career talent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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.

USA, WA, Seattle - 157,100.00 - 212,600.00 USD annually