Principal APJ Partner Migrations and Modernisation Lead, APJ Partner Core

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.

Would you like to develop AWS migrations and modernization partners and build their businesses? Would you like to be part of a successful team focused on helping partners build and grow their businesses on Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Do you have business savvy and technical background necessary to help further establish Amazon leadership by growing the partner-led migration and modernization business?

This role will own the Korea Partner Migration and Modernization business, working closely with AWS Specialist Sales and global migrations and modernization team members to develop and execute a strategy to deliver partner contribution to overall Korea migrations revenue.

Key job responsibilities
You will own the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon’s platform within the AWS partner ecosystem. Your responsibilities will include identifying and engaging with key consulting and technology partners to help AWS customers migrate at scale and speed; develop long-term demand planning and proactively identify prospective partners to supply that demand; own initiatives and activities to build Korea pipeline for partner migrations; possess a high-level of commercial acumen and be the first point of approval for Korea partner migration and modernization deal investment; be the voice of APJ partners to inform changes and enhancements to AWS programs and processes; own and deliver business reviews to senior management regarding partner revenue influence, customer wins through partners, and overall progress on partner strategy; develop and execute enablement, marketing, and promotion strategies to help partners better engage with AWS customers; and enabling AWS product/service teams, business development and sales teams to better engage with our partner ecosystem.

The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to engage with partner business teams as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with software developers and architects. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions, and work cross-organisationally to build consensus.



A day in the life
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About the team
Migrating customers onto AWS Cloud is a top, strategic initiative for the company. The Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program that packages best practices, expertise, tooling, and financial incentives for customers to make cloud adoption easier and accelerate migrations to AWS. To support MAP, the Partner Migrations team works closely with AWS Partners who engage customers and migrate legacy workloads to AWS. The team includes a WW core team responsible for strategy, operations, and program management, and two-person in geo/segment teams consisting of Partner Development Specialists and Migration Architects shaping strategy, enablement and execution

Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of working with Core Cloud Technology Services, including, but not limited to Compute, Edge, Hybrid, Security, and/or Networking experience
- 7+ years of Go-To-Market, Business Development, Sales, or Consulting experience
- 7+ years of working with Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration technologies, including, but not limited to, Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, or Cloud Operations experience
- 7+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience as a founder or executive focused on related segments, or as a practice leader or business unit owner
- Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations

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