Head of Startups - UKI

London, United Kingdom
2 months ago
Job Type
Permanent
Seniority
Director
Posted
10 Mar 2026 (2 months ago)
AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

As the Head of Startups for AWS in UKI, you will play a pivotal role in helping the region’s most innovative and high-potential startups scale, succeed, and innovated on the AWS platform. This role is responsible for leading the end-to-end sales strategy, planning, and go-to-market execution for the startup business across the UK and Ireland. You will drive revenue growth, increase AWS adoption, and expand market adoption, while managing a high-performing sales team and working cross-functionally with business development, marketing, partners, solutions architecture, and service teams.

We’re looking for a growth-oriented sales leader with a strong understanding of the startup market, and demonstrated expertise in both Cloud and AI. The ideal candidate will have a track record of success in technology sales leadership, the ability to connect to the technical needs of founders, C-level executives, VC's and the strategic thinking to convert complex, ambiguous problems into actionable, data-driven initiatives. The ideal candidate will be able to empathise with startup founders.

Key job responsibilities
+ Lead annual business and go-to-market planning for the Startup business segment, including developing mature cross-functional engagement mechanisms for planning and execution, with a deep focus on sales strategy to respond to local customer needs.
+ Engage with customers to educate, accelerate and grow their use of the AWS cloud to support their business outcomes.
+ Drive business growth, meeting or exceeding revenue targets, opportunity creation and progression, acquisition and growth goals.
+ Develop and mature mechanisms to deeply understand local Startup customer needs, gaps, and opportunities.
+ Build a culture of sales excellence, including skills in coaching and developing high performance sales teams and exemplifying Amazon's Leadership Principles.

About the team
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 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.

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.

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 and 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.

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