Senior Customer Success Specialist, Connect Specialty Sales

London, United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
24 Apr 2026 (3 weeks ago)

Benefits

25 days holiday Pension Private healthcare Equity
This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

AWS is one of Amazon’s fastest growing businesses, servicing millions of customers in more than 190 countries, reshaping the way global enterprises consume information technology and powering the developers who are building the next generation of global industry leaders. AWS customers include some of the most innovative startups like Netflix, Pinterest, Airbnb, and Instagram as well as some of the largest global enterprises like Shell International, Unilever, Hitachi, Sharp, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Samsung.

AWS is seeking an experienced Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) Customer Success Specialist for Amazon Connect. Connect was born out of Amazon’s own need for the best CCaaS solution that works at scale, while improving customer experience. Today, Connect is one of AWS's fastest growing services, leveraging native generative AI capabilities to improve customer and employee experiences. As a Connect Customer Success Specialist, you will act as a strategic advisor to customers, helping them innovate and optimize their contact center and customer experience through adoption of the Connect capabilities. You will lead cross-functional field teams in sales, solutions architecture, partner sales, product, and will work at the CxO level with customers to maximize the value of their Connect investment.

The ideal candidate will have enterprise sales and/or consulting experience in Contact Center as a Service or similar SaaS solutions in areas such as telecommunications, VoIP, and/or or CRM/ERP applications. You will be passionate about customer experience and advocacy and bring the voice of the customer into the product development process. You will enjoy solving complex problems; our customers will rely on your guidance to scale Connect across their complex global businesses, overcoming technical and organizational roadblocks on the way.

Key job responsibilities
- Serve as the primary point of contact for a portfolio of strategic customer accounts, managing relationships and being a strategic advisor, driving enterprise-wide adoption of Connect.
- Deliver compelling presentations, product demos, sample solutions and programs, events, and discussions to enable customer success.
- Build customer skills and proficiency with Connect.
- Engage with C-level stakeholders to understand the value proposition of Connect and uncover new areas of business value.
- Develop account plans in conjunction with field teams.
- Meet annual revenue targets through increased adoption of Connect.
- Work with partners and ISVs to extend reach & drive adoption of AWS solutions.

A day in the life
The Amazon Connect Customer Success Specialist (CSS) will create a matrix environment with resources from our partner community, Professional Services, AWS account teams, and Connect service team members to drive customer success. A CSS will run attach service plays, customer engagements to drive adoption of migrating services, work with our partner community to scale and align key members of the services team for optimization and retention efforts. Last, a CSS will uncover cases that align to Connect unique business value to be shared with AWS Marketing.

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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