Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have a background in Security & Compliance, and the Startup space, as well as the technical sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Join the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) Startup team as a Specialist Solution Architect WWSO Intro The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which 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. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as OneTeam. Team Intro: The WWSO team helps customers adopt our newest and most advantageous technologies. We are technology specialists. The WWSO Startup team is a team dedicated to helping Startups scale quickly and cost-effectively on AWS. We want Startups to grow better when they choose AWS and we make it easier by recommending the right technologies and then by helping Startups get up and running quickly. Within WWSO, this position is a part of the Startup Specialist team, where you will be a Specialist Solution Architect helping startup customers in EMEA build securely and use AWS security services. Startups have specific requirements when it comes to security & compliance, so this role will focus on aspects of the startup lifecycle to enable their solutions to be securely architected at the right level at the right time in their evolution. Working with a GTM specialist you will support startups to build securely while maintaining cost effectiveness, support their cybersecurity requirements, help them meet compliance requirements for their target industries (such as healthcare & life sciences, and fintech) and use AWS’ security services optimally. AWS services in scope span domains including Detection & Response (Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Detective, Amazon Security Lake), Data Protection (AWS Key Management Services, AWS CloudHSM, Amazon Macie, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Private CA, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Signer, AWS Payments Cryptography), Network & Application Protection (AWS Shield, AWS WAF, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS Network Firewall, AWS DNS Firewall). Across these domains and services, we create sales plays, leverage partners, and build new initiatives that drive results for our customers. We provide critical feedback from customers to inform our product roadmap, and work closely with our partner network to build an ecosystem supporting our customers’ goals. When a customer needs to innovate and requires a new way to leverage AWS, they count on us to innovate with them to build and deliver what they need. Key job responsibilities Interact at the CxO/VP level, as well as with the CISO, developers and technical architects, to ease adoption, develop pipeline, secure lighthouse customers, drive top-line revenue, and explore strategic partnerships. Become a trusted advisor within startup founders through Technical Thought Leadership and demonstrate AWS values. Represent the voice of the customer; collaborate with field and central teams to bring customer feedback to product teams. Lead curation of custom feature and availability requests for unique customer use cases. Provide advanced technical knowledge to your aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers’ largest and most critical business challenges. Along with your extended team, own the technical bar for specialist technical artifacts and standards. Collaborate with your GTM colleagues to provide technical insights into GTM strategy and support field marketing to execute local technical events, campaigns, and customer engagements. Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re: Invent, etc. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate new AWS solutions into customer architectures.