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AWS is hiring a Partner Account Manager with deep industrial experience to drive cloud strategy and execution across the Defense Industrial Base. This role brings cloud technology to manufacturing, engineering, supply chain operations, and national security, working directly with the companies that design, build, and sustain military platforms.
You will own the industrial cloud strategy for several Global Defense Industrial Base (GDIB) partners, working across shipyards, factories, and supply chains to drive adoption of AWS technologies in production environments. The team is small, high-autonomy, operating across AWS Worldwide Public Sector

You will work with defense primes, industrial technology ISVs, and Global System Integrators to position and win joint AWS enabled solutions in digital engineering, predictive maintenance, production optimization, and supply chain visibility.
Would you like to own building the future for a leader in the cloud computing business in the public sector. Would you like to be part of a sales team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for heavy industrial applications. Are you an engineer or technical leader who has moved into business development, partnerships, or go-to-market roles and wants to bring cloud-enabled solutions to the factories, shipyards, and supply chains that build and sustain our national defense

Do you have hands-on experience in manufacturing, engineering, or supply chain operations, a value-driven approach to technology adoption, and a track record of building long-term relationships?
AWS Partner Account Managers (PAM) do all this and more. AWS PAMs work with select large partners to develop go-to-market strategies for expanding industry offerings and emerging solutions across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). As a PAM you will work across several Global Defense Industrial Base (GDIB) partners to create and lead joint sales campaigns for AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) that aligns to AWS strategic initiatives and your partners' market leadership positioning.
In this role, you will work closely with AWS Account Executives, Solution Architects, Industry Leaders, and Partner Marketing to develop and drive new routes to market to create pipeline with new joint offerings, solutions, and strategic initiatives

The ideal candidate will possess an industrial, engineering, or supply chain background combined with sales and partnership/alliance experience that enables them to engage, earn trust, and influence at the CxO level, with technical personnel, and with customer account teams. Successful PAMs think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges to convey compelling partner value propositions.
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This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.
Key job responsibilities
- As a Partner Account Manager (PAM) in the Defense Industrial Base, you will work closely with AWS Account Executives, Solution Architects, Industry/Technology Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and Partner Marketing to develop and drive new AWS revenue opportunities.
- You will be responsible for delivering revenue growth and overall end-customer adoption for strategic initiatives.
- Serve as the industrial subject matter expert on your partner accounts, translating operational challenges in areas like digital engineering, predictive maintenance, product sustainment, and supply chain visibility into AWS-enabled solutions.
- You will cultivate sales & partner relationships and execute sales campaigns with the long-term interests of AWS, your GDIB partner, and ultimately the end-user customer at the forefront.
- You'll advise on AWS investments, industry prioritization, and strategic initiatives based on market growth potential.
- You will use AWS mechanisms for achieving sales results, iterating improvements, and lead an extended team to deliver results
- Create and execute Joint Partner Sales Plans to accelerate AWS revenue, target new markets, and ensure alignment with the AWS strategic direction.
- Communicate to AWS Partner teams, field sales, solutions architects, business development, and others as needed on partner's offering capabilities and successes.
- Prepare and give business reviews to the AWS senior management team.
A day in the life
The Partner Account Manager (PAM) is an individual contributor role with global business leadership across several GDIB partners of the AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) business. You will work closely with GDIB account teams as an industrial expert, defining a COO, CTO, Chief Engineer, and Line of Business relationship strategy

This includes engaging with AWS senior leaders for executive sponsorship, coordinating executive business reviews, and developing sales opportunities for partner offerings and solutions. You will build and maintain key relationships with Global System Integrators and independent software vendors (ISVs) in the industrial technology space, advance key sales opportunities, and work with a global team of Partner Managers to manage a sales pipeline and deliver results.
You will regularly visit partner facilities, participate in technical design sessions, and work with engineering teams to understand production environments, OT/IT convergence challenges, and industrial data architectures.
About the team
The WWPS Global Defense Industrial Base (GDIB) Industrial Innovation team is a small, high-autonomy team inside AWS Worldwide Public Sector focused on one of the fastest-growing partner segments in defense: the companies that design, build, and sustain military platforms and the supply chains that support them. We work at the intersection of cloud, manufacturing, engineering, and national security, partnering with defense primes, industrial technology ISVs, and GSIs to bring AWS-enabled solutions into production environments, from the factory floor to fleet sustainment

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