Account Executive Startups, Germany

**DESCRIPTION**:
As a Startup Central Sales Account Executive, you will help drive growth in one of two focus areas: either working with early-stage startups from inception to Series A, or engaging with mature startups from Series B onwards. In both roles, you will be servicing their unique needs, engaging with Founders, CxOs, Board of Directors and VC influencers, and teaming with business development, marketing, solution architecture and partner teams to lead execution of coordinated go-to-market strategies. Your customers are building, launching, and iterating the next generation of high impact products which will change the daily lives of our planet in ways both big and small, and you will be part of these journeys.

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

Key job responsibilities
- Drive customer growth across their startup journey, providing strategic guidance from ideation to scale
- Execute territory strategies and prioritize opportunities to exceed revenue targets
- Create compelling AWS value propositions by deeply understanding customers' products and market needs
- Accelerate technical adoption of AWS services aligned with customers' growth trajectory
- Leverage AWS partners to expand market reach and drive AWS adoption

A day in the life
In this role, you will establish AWS as the key cloud provider across your portfolio companies, with emphasis on our industry-leading GenAI capabilities. You'll promote AWS's comprehensive suite of services, from Bedrock and foundation models to broader cloud infrastructure, helping startups build and scale their AI innovations. You'll help the next generation of disruptors transform their ideas into production-ready AI solutions on AWS.

About the team
The Startup Central Sales focus on acquiring new customers and accelerating AWS adoption of existing customers. We deliver targeted customer experience throughout their AWS journey by being trusted advisors in our customers industries. Underpinned by a Learn and Be Curious culture, we are agile in looking for specific initiatives that can be programmatically repeated to accelerate similar groups of prospects/customers at scale. Working backwards from the customer, we use end-to-end data and analytics to make real-time decisions, experiment with new concepts and respond to trends to innovate on behalf of our customers.

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

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.

Inclusive Team Culture

AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & 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.

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Start-up experience
- Technology related sales or business development experience
- Ability to build and deliver against a plan for your territory which meets or exceeds revenue targets
- Entrepreneurial “builder” mentality
- Comfortable delivering results amid ambiguity and change

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- A technical or educational background in engineering, computer science
- Experience selling cloud solutions
- History of working for, or selling to tech startups

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