Are you passionate about helping customers innovate and create transformative experiences? Do you want to be at the forefront of utilizing AI and ML services to drive innovation for thousands of AWS customers globally? And are you interested in building and leading high-performing teams in the fast paced area of generative AI? The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) is on a mission to accelerate production adoption of AWS generative AI services across global customers. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a fast growing and entrepreneurial organization, bringing innovation to customers and growing the adoption of cloud services.

The GenAIIC organization is staffed with specialized and experienced business strategists and ML scientists who solve complex problems for customers. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do. We believe that GenAI solutions, when founded in deep customer needs, can transform organizations, and produce groundbreaking experiences. We are a small, tight-knit team who value authentic, teammates that think creatively and will proactively seek out opportunities to advance the impact of the GenAIIC.

As the GenAIIC Geo Leader, AWSI, you will be responsible for building and managing a team of generative AI strategists and ML scientists that are working with large multi-national customers to architect and implement innovative generative AI solutions. You will regularly engage with Director, VP, C-level customer executives. You will be responsible for building relationships, capturing opportunity, driving engagement, and delivering on business objectives. You must bring a strong blend of business and technical skills and lead all GenAIIC activities for AWS Industries. You are ready to roll-up your sleeves and work alongside the team in developing solutions when needed. You will lean on your experience working directly with customers, and are passionate in empowering these organizations to leverage generative AI and derive business outcomes.


Key job responsibilities
- Lead a high-performing team of business strategists, ML scientists, and generative AI domain experts
- Guide the team in designing, developing, and evaluating innovative generative AI solutions to address customer issues
- Advise and influence customers on technology decisions, including contrasting technology choices
- Drive adoption of AWS generative AI services, delivering workload/solution specific domain expertise to the broader field organization, and developing repeatable, packaged solutions
- Develop new strategies and mechanisms to address evolving customer needs, while driving higher business impact for AWS
- Influence product roadmap with service teams to deliver value for customers and accelerate adoption


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- Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of experience in a customer-facing leadership role in the technology industry
- 5+ years of experience in people management, leading multi-disciplinary teams consisting of business and technical subject matter experts
- Hands-on experience with generative models, computer vision, NLP, and other ML techniques
- Experience solving diverse and complex technical challenges for large global organizations

- PhD in computer science, engineering, or related field
- Experience thinking big, working effectively and cross-functionally within a fast-moving organization
- Experience developing business and technical strategies that influence strategic decisions at the organizational level
- Track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced the field
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $208,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $324,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.