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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an experienced Prototyping Engagement Manager (PEM) to lead customer prototypes with AWS technology in Benelux and Nordics. A prototype is a two to six weeks hands-on engagement where we build together with our customers a functional use case leveraging innovative AWS technology such as generative AI, Data Analytics or Serverless, helping them clarify their decision making and accelerate business outcomes.

The PEM role works closely with sales, solutions architects and regional leadership to identify, qualify, scope, and manage high impact time-boxed prototypes; to ensure a proper path-to-production for prototypes; and to communicate internally and externally to wide audiences and to senior leadership. The PEM works in close partnership with Prototyping Architects (PAs) and other technical stakeholders, who are in charge of the technical delivery of projects. The PEM is driving the business side of engagements, but is also a technologist seen as trusted advisor by senior technical stakeholders internally and on customer side, and able to dive deep and understand how different technology options impact customer outcomes.

The role is based in Amsterdam and might require regular travel within Benelux and Nordics, as well as occasional travel in EMEA.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Key job responsibilities

• Proactively drive a go-to-market strategy with sales and leadership stakeholders in Nordics and Benelux to develop a healthy pipeline of high impact prototyping opportunities

• Dive deep with customers to understand their business painpoints and gaps that can be addressed with innovative architecture designs. Establish the scope and define a working setup in collaboration with technical as well as business stakeholders of a prototype. Work with customers and AWS stakeholders to ensure a viable path to production for qualified prototypes

• Lead the planning, design and execution of prototypes with prototyping architects, account teams and other stakeholders

• Help customers structure their technical and organizational resources to ensure maximum benefits from adoption or leverage of AWS technology

• Develop extensive executive and senior technical relationships within client organizations as well as internally in AWS; develop as a trusted advisor for innovation and cloud technology

• Capture learnings as well as customer feedback from engagements and drive those learnings into the wider organization to improve services and products.

• Support the development of reusable assets and other artefacts leveraging the outcomes from prototypes. Develop thought leadership activities, such as blog post writing or public speaking sessions

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Basic Qualifications

• Master in Engineering, Computer Science or other relatable technical discipline. MBA is a plus

• Demonstrable experience leading ideation process and adoption of disruptive technologies, transforming complex business requirements into productive assets

• 5+ years of proven experience in delivering highly complex, cross functional, multi-discipline technology projects or engineering programs

• Meaningful experience working with go to market stakeholders such as account teams, business development or service delivery teams as part of a large technology organization

• Strong verbal and written communications skills

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in software, hardware or integrated systems design and delivery

• 3+ years of demonstrable experience using modern agile development and delivery methodologies

• Technical depth in areas of emerging technology such as generative AI, AI/ML, Data Analytics, Serverless compute

• AWS Knowledge and Certification as an AWS Solutions Architect

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