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Cloud Sales Rep Manager (Startups) - Korea and Japan, APJ Scale GTM

ID: 6263

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: Amazon Web Services Japan GK

Location: JPN, Tokyo

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Job Description

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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

Innovation and education is at the core of our ‘Cloud Sales Centre’ (CSC) team vision, to re-imagine how we help our customers scale. We imagine a world where organisations leverage their current trajectory and investment, by providing knowledge and support to rethink their businesses strategy – with AWS cloud computing technology as an enabler to innovation and growth. Come join us and work with the latest cloud technologies, enabling our Start-up customers to adopt and benefit from cloud-based solutions.

The Cloud Sales Manager will lead a team of talented, customer focused Account Managers/Reps. Your guidance will help the team achieve their sales, career and development goals, while empowering them to help Start-ups accelerate their growth with AWS.

Key job responsibilities
- Coach and develop a team of Sales Reps to support delivery against your territory goals
- Invest in recruiting and growing the best talent, set employees up for success with a great onboarding experience, providing feedback along the way for continuous development.
- Drive strong internal and external relationships in service of an amazing customer experience, and continued rapid growth.
- Set the tone for your team: Champion a culture of achievement, inclusiveness, collaboration, creativity, and accountability while being a champion for your team’s career development
- Build and drive territory strategy and priorities, communicating them clearly with your team.
- Continuously optimize our sales methodology and the way we leverage Gen AI and Agentic AI to increase customer reach and improve our customer experience.  Innovate and share ideas to improve efficiency and focus, enable greater scale, and yield better results.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to maximize results (partner, field sales, solutions architects, marketing, specialists, etc.).
- Use metrics and data to continually assess both sales performance and talent performance/retention to fully understand underlying drivers.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS 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 is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of technology related sales, business development or equivalent experience
- Experience in sales management or equivalent
- Experience prioritizing and managing time effectively in dynamic environments
- Business level fluency in English, Japanese, and Korean

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of existing and developing technologies as it relates to cloud computing
- Experience in exceeding quota and key performance metrics

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Company Information

Company Name: Amazon Web Services Japan GK

Company Website: https://aws.amazon.com/jp/

Company Address: JPN, Tokyo

Amazon Web Services Japan GK (commonly referred to as AWS Japan) is the Japanese subsidiary of Amazon Web Services, Inc., established to deliver AWS cloud services, technical support, professional services, and local partnership programs to customers operating in Japan. As the local arm of AWS, it markets, localizes, and supports the broad suite of AWS cloud computing services for enterprises, startups, public sector organizations, and developers across Japan. AWS Japan acts both as a commercial and customer-facing organization that supports adoption of cloud infrastructure and platform services, offers regional account management and technical engagement, and coordinates with the global AWS organization on infrastructure, compliance, and product availability. Core business activities - Provisioning and operation of cloud infrastructure and platform services: AWS Japan makes available the same core infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and higher-level managed services offered by AWS globally, enabling customers to run compute, storage, database, networking, analytics, machine learning, security, and developer tool workloads on demand. Japan-based customers can take advantage of AWS’s Japan Regions (for example, the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region and the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region) to host workloads with local data residency and low-latency access. - Sales, customer support, and account services: The subsidiary provides local account management, pre-sales and post-sales technical support, and professional services engagement for migration, architecture design, optimization, and operational readiness. This includes assistance with onboarding, migration planning, cost management, and adoption of AWS best practices. - Local regulatory, compliance, and security support: AWS Japan supports customers with region-specific compliance certifications, guidance on data protection and residency requirements, and coordination for independent audit and certification activities relevant to Japanese regulatory frameworks. It also helps customers implement the AWS Shared Responsibility Model for security and compliance. - Partner ecosystem and channel enablement: AWS Japan administers and grows the AWS Partner Network (APN) in Japan, certifying and enabling local system integrators, managed service providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), and consulting partners. The subsidiary supports partner-led delivery models, marketplace listings, and joint go-to-market initiatives for Japanese customers. - Training, certification, and community programs: To build local cloud skills, AWS Japan offers localized training, certification programs, workshops, and programs for startups and academic institutions. These programs include official AWS training curricula, certification exams in Japan, and initiatives to support innovation and cloud-native skill development in the local market. Main products and services (representative categories and examples) - Compute: Amazon EC2 (virtual servers), Auto Scaling, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Fargate (serverless containers), and AWS Lambda (serverless functions). - Storage and content delivery: Amazon S3 (object storage), Amazon EBS (block storage), Amazon EFS (file storage), Amazon Glacier/Archive (long-term archival), and Amazon CloudFront (content delivery network). - Databases and data stores: Amazon RDS (managed relational databases), Amazon Aurora (MySQL- and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database), Amazon DynamoDB (managed NoSQL), Amazon ElastiCache (in-memory caching), Amazon Neptune (graph database), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing). - Networking and hybrid connectivity: Amazon VPC (virtual private cloud), AWS Direct Connect (dedicated network links), Elastic Load Balancing, and services to enable hybrid and on-premises integration such as AWS Outposts and AWS Storage Gateway. - Analytics and big data: Amazon EMR (managed Hadoop/Spark), Amazon Kinesis (real-time streaming), Amazon Athena (interactive query), and Amazon Redshift for analytics workloads. - Machine learning and AI: Amazon SageMaker (build, train, and deploy ML models), and managed AI services such as Amazon Rekognition (image/video analysis), Amazon Comprehend (NLP), Amazon Translate, Amazon Lex, and Amazon Polly. - Security, identity, and compliance: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS Shield, AWS WAF, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and a portfolio of compliance and governance tools. - Developer and application services: AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline (CI/CD), Amazon API Gateway, AWS Step Functions, and application integration services such as Amazon SNS and SQS. - Migration and modernization: AWS Migration Hub, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), and professional services for rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring applications. - Marketplace and commercial services: AWS Marketplace for third-party software, AWS Support plans (Basic, Developer, Business, and Enterprise) and consulting engagements delivered by AWS Professional Services and APN partners. How AWS Japan positions its services AWS Japan positions itself as a provider of scalable, pay-as-you-go cloud infrastructure and managed services that enable organizations to reduce the operational burden of running IT, accelerate product development, and scale quickly. It emphasizes technical enablement through localized training, partner-led engagements, and support plans tailored to the needs of Japanese enterprises and public sector customers. AWS Japan also highlights regional features such as local Regions and Availability Zones to help customers achieve lower latency and meet data residency requirements. Customer segments and use cases AWS Japan serves a wide range of customers including multinational corporations with Japanese operations, domestic enterprises, startups, public sector organizations, and developers. Common use cases include cloud-native application development, large-scale data analytics and business intelligence, websites and mobile backends, disaster recovery and backup, IoT deployments, and machine learning-powered applications. Accessibility and official channels AWS Japan communicates product announcements, service availability in Japan Regions, documentation, pricing, and localized support through the official AWS Japan website and localized developer and partner portals. The subsidiary coordinates with AWS’s global operations to ensure feature parity, regional compliance, and local engagement for customers in Japan.
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