Customer Acquisition Manager, Startups

AWS is expanding its North American Outbound Customer Acquisition Sales team in Austin. As a Customer Acquisition leader, you'll manage a team of representatives to generate high-quality sales opportunities and accelerate customer growth. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive AWS service adoption and market expansion. Your role involves strategic planning, stakeholder management, and developing early career talent through coaching and mentoring. You'll focus on helping your team exceed KPIs, build sales and leadership skills, and advance within AWS Global Sales. This position is crucial for pipeline generation, customer acquisition, and fostering a talent development flywheel across the organization.

Success will be measured by building an operationally excellent team. You will rely on data and analysis provided by operations teams, but also self-generated, to dive deep into performance trends and inform decisions to produce successful outcomes. As a manager, you will be responsible for upholding Amazon’s goal of Striving to be Earth’s Best Employer through effective hiring, people management, coaching, and culture building.


Key job responsibilities
* Manage team in building qualified sales pipeline through prospecting and early customer conversations.
* Identify challenges and develop scalable solutions for the team and broader organization.
* Coach and develop early career talent in sales skills and Amazon Leadership Principles.
* Act as a trusted advisor on Customer Acquisition to sales leaders and cross-functional teams.
* Manage team performance against KPIs including outbound calls, meetings scheduled, and opportunity creation.
* Continuously develop technical knowledge and understanding of customer business issues.
* Contribute to broader Customer Acquisition initiatives like culture-building and new tool piloting

A day in the life
* Thinks of themselves as a “coach” and spends 50% of day developing employees
* Adaptive management style, able to move swiftly and decisively
* Holds themselves and team accountable for delivering results
* Metric driven mindset, thru consistent inspection and analyzing
* Enjoys recruiting, onboarding and hiring the next generation of sellers



About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
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 in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of technology related sales, business development or equivalent experience
- Experience with CRM tools such as Salesforce, and web-based meeting applications
- Experience hiring and developing strong talent and building a team
- 5+ years of sales team management experience
- 5+ years of exceeding quota and key performance metrics experience
- Experience conducting sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data and translate the results into actionable deliverables, messages, and presentations
- Bachelor's degree, or experience in a relevant field

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working with a matrixed team of stakeholders to achieve a common goal or equivalent
- Experience developing and executing multi-modal, targeted campaigns

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Austin - 157,100.00 - 212,600.00 USD annually