Job Description

- 5+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience
- 2+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent
- Experience leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams


As a Senior Customer Success Specialist Connect within the AWS Specialists & Partners (ASP) Customer Success Center of Excellence org, you will drive enterprise adoption and value realization for our contact center services. You will develop customer success strategies, create playbooks, and build scalable frameworks that combine strategic thinking with operational excellence and technical expertise. Working closely with the Connect GTM and Customer Success Specialist teams, partners, and Professional Services, you will support service adoption plays. The ideal candidate brings enterprise sales or deployment experience in Contact Center as a Service (or similar solutions), along with a passion for customer experience and problem-solving. Your expertise will help customers scale Amazon Connect across their global businesses while navigating technical and organizational challenges, and you will play a crucial role in bringing customer feedback into the product development process.
Key job responsibilities
Strategic customer engagement:
- Develop, execute, and test adoption and expansion plays for enterprise adoption and business value realization for Amazon Connect (in close collaboration with the Connect domain teams)
- Develop and scale customer success programs through respective Connect domain teams and partner success team.
- Collaborate with the Amazon Connect Customer Success Specialists to understand customer employee personas, assess their unique needs and challenges; engage with the the Connect team to design and deliver tailored technical workshops and enablement programs to accelerate adoption.
- Orchestrate executive alignment and stakeholder buy-in for adoption initiatives and customer advocacy programs.
Adoption program development:
- As an adoption expert, create and maintain best practices documentation, implementation guides, and training materials to be applied across multiple service domains.
- Track and analyze adoption metrics to measure effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
- Develop governance frameworks for sustainable adoption at scale across domains.
Customer success management:
- Design and monitor customer health dashboards and proactively address potential risks or adoption barriers to customer business value realization.
- Drive customer advocacy through success story documentation and advocacy program participation.
Product feedback loop:
- Collect and communicate customer feedback, insights, and requirements to Go-To-Market teams.
- Analyze trends in customer requests and pain points to identify potential product improvements.
About the team
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PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe certification Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar


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