Analytics GTM Specialist

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Amazon Web Services came to China in 2013, and has been relentlessly investing and expanding our infrastructure and business since then. Amazon Web Services launched its China (Beijing) Region (operated by Sinnet) in September 2016 and its China (Ningxia) Region (operated by NWCD) in December 2017. In 2019, Amazon Web Services added a new region in Hong Kong, making China the only country with three Amazon Web Services regions aside from the U.S. In 2022, Amazon Web Services launched Local Zone in Taipei. Amazon Web Services has also established an AI lab in Shanghai and two IoT labs in Shenzhen and Taipei. The Amazon Web Services Partner Network has thousands of Partners in China. Amazon Web Services has supported over 10,000 local startups and has provided cloud skills training to over 700,000 talents. Amazon’s first two utility-scale renewable projects—a solar farm and a wind farm—are also generating clean energy to the country’s grid.

We are looking for an accomplished Go-to-market professional to play a big role on the Greater China Business Development team to drive business growth of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Big Data & Analytics services (Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon Quicksight, Amazon Machine Learning, etc).

Extracting insights and actionable information from data requires a broad array of technology that can work with data efficiently, scalable, and cost-effectively. With 70+ services offers the most complete platform for Big Data including a comprehensive set of services to handle every step of the analytics process chain including data warehousing, business intelligence, batch processing, stream processing, machine learning, and data workflow orchestration. These services are powerful, flexible, and yet simple to use, enabling organizations to put their raw data to work quickly and easily.

As a Tech Business Development, your responsibility is to work with front-end BD/SA to drive and expedite Analytics service adoption, fast react to customer's asks and bridging service GTMS together to push service team's help for key deals. You’ll also work closely with product/service teams to help them evolve the products/services and address issues, concerns, and requests from the field.
The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to track and explore opportunities and a certain level of technical knowledge on big data. The candidate should have the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions, and work cross-organizationally to build consensus. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and scrappiness is a must.

Key job responsibilities
- Help define the market segments, customer base, and industry verticals we target within Greater China and set a strategic business development plan for target markets and ensure it's in line with the strategic direction

- Identify specific prospects/partners to approach while communicating the specific value proposition for their business and use case; work closely with the customer base to ensure they are successful using AWS web services, making sure they have the technical resources required

- Understand the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the internal development teams to guide the direction of our product offerings

- Experienced with account management (Enterprise, SMB and startup) and solution selling ability

- Relevant technical experience/knowledge is helpful, such as: database systems, core distributed computing concepts, fundamentals of cloud computing and virtualization, big data concepts, storage systems, content delivery networks (CDNs) etc. with ability to go deep enough on technical aspects related to various Big Data & Analytics technologies

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A day in the life
1) Customer meetings to learn their business needs and pain points.
2) Understand product positioning in the market and in front of competitors
3) design Go-to-Market strategy of the product and track the results with adjustment during execution
4) Alignment with front-end teams (BD/SA) to scale the business
5) collaborate with WW service teams to feedback with findings gained in the field to help product enhancement & iteration; Partner Synergy as either sell to/with/through them.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Guangzhou, CHN | Shenzhen, 44, CHN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of business development, partnership management, or sourcing new business experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in online advertising or high-tech products/services

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