Amazon Head Startup Business Development LATAM 

Brazil, São Paulo, São Paulo 

124154971

AWS is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the LATAM Startup Business Development team. In this role you will be responsible for leading a team of former startup founders/operators/investors who champion and work alongside LATAM’s best tech startups, Venture Capital Firms, Accelerators and Incubators. You will work closely with the startup ecosystem as well as internal teams to define the strategy that ensures that LATAM’s startup founders are choosing to build and scale their startups on AWS.In this role, you will create and implement long-term strategies working backwards from startup customer needs, earning their trust and helping to accelerate and expand our startup business in LATAM. You will work closely with other senior internal stakeholders across sales, solutions architects, marketing, product, partners, and support teams to build programs, mechanisms and go-to-market approaches that ensure startups choose AWS as their cloud platform and business partner. You will also be part of a global team of Startup Business Development leaders that work together to create strategies and programs globally.Basic qualifications
Extensive experience with startups and/or the startup ecosystem(s) • Business acumen required to identify and support startups with strong potential to succeed and scale • Significant technology-related business development and/or sales experience • Demonstrated creative problem-solving skills. • Prior experience building and leading, diverse teams as well as delivering results through influencing related teams and functions • Experience working across different LATAM markets • Proven track record driving customer acquisition • Demonstrated history of meeting and exceeding performance goals • Experience as a public speaker • Strong verbal and written communications skills. • Strong leadership skills, with significant experience as a manager of managers • BA/BS degree • English (written and spoken)Preferred qualifications
• Senior operating experience within a tech startup • Experience founding and/or scaling and managing a tech startup is highly preferential • Extensive customer and startup ecosystem networks • A technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS is a plus. • MBA degree in relevant field • Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.Diverse Experiences
Amazon 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 hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Key job responsibilities
• Define and execute strategies to drive adoption of AWS services in startup customers.• Lead a high performing, diverse team across Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.• Collaborate and partner with other functions (sales, marketing, solutions architects) to execute plans and programs.• Be the key spokesperson to share AWS value proposition in the LATAM startup ecosystem as a presenter at events, meetings and with interviews with the press.• Build and maintain relationships with the top founders, investors, accelerators, and incubators in LATAM.• Represent LATAM in global startup business development forums, sharing and capturing best practices from other GEO’s.

- 5+ years of managing and developing high performance teams experience
- Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese is a plus.