Senior Generative AI Strategist, Generative AI Innovation Center

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for experienced and motivated business-oriented technologists who possess a unique balance of business knowledge, effective interpersonal skills, and some technological depth in the following areas: analytics/big data, machine learning and generative artificial intelligence. This role will focus on partnering with customers to enhance their business or operational outcomes through the use of advanced and emerging technologies.

You will partner with customers, AWS Sales, AWS service teams, AWS industry teams and AWS Professional Services delivery teams to craft industry-specific programs that will serve the needs of the customer, and extend that use to other customers within the industry and related industries. You will leverage and refine a programmatic approach to help customers drive their business metrics across a set of industry-specific needs. As a trusted customer advocate, the Generative AI Strategist will assess and deliver best practices around program delivery, project approaches, and business measurement. The ability to connect business value to a scalable, repeatable, extensible approach is critical to the Strategist role.

Key job responsibilities

• Bring alignment between customer’s technologists and business leads; help them to explore the art of the possible with generative AI and machine learning, and to develop a roadmap to deliver business value in the most effective way
• Discuss complex industry-specific business concepts with executives, line managers and technologists
• Engage with various AWS teams, including applied scientists, solutions architects, business development, marketing, industry specialists, partners and regional organisations
• Drive large, complex sales opportunities from ideation, through vision building and scoping, all the way to closure and into delivery
• Conduct workshop sessions to identify opportunities with our customers to scope how they could deliver business value through the use of generative AI or machine learning

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or 7+ years of professional or military experience
• 7+ years of technical consulting experience in design, architecture, and implementation of serverless distributed solutions, including complex, large-scale customer-facing program management
• 5+ years of software development and data engineering experience, including object-oriented programming and database technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis)
• 3+ years of cloud-based solution experience (AWS or equivalent), covering system, network, and operating system design
• Proven experience driving AI business transformation, including launching technically complex programs involving big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, with quantifiable business outcomes

Preferred qualifications

• 4+ years of communicating with and presenting to executive and senior audiences experience
• Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
• Experience with presentations and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers
• 7+ years of IT and/or Management Consulting Services, or 5+ years of management experience
• Master's degree or above in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing