Senior Consultant Ad-Tech, Technology & Industry Team (APJ)

AWS Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) Professional Services (ProServe) is seeking for a Senior Consultant, Ad Tech for its Technology & Industry team. This role will be focused on helping customers envision and drive transformations in the area of sell-side Advertising optimization. As an Advertising Industry Specialist, it will be your responsibility to engage early with executives as they look to leverage the depth and breadth of AWS Services, ISV Partner solutions, and custom AI/ML models to help them optimize the pitch-to-pay performance across their assets.

In this role you will have the opportunity to collaborate directly with APJ customers and partners addressing workflow performance, cloud workloads, security, compliance, scale, availability and manageability. You will be called upon to provide leadership to customers looking for solutions to transform their existing Ad Tech workloads using Cloud technology.

You will act as the voice-of-the-customer to oversee engagements and assist with non-technical change management work on policies, procedures, operations and people. In this role you will have the opportunity to acquire new technology skills and serve as trusted advisors for internal and external customers. You’ll work to develop and publish best practices and repeatable assets inclusive of AWS Partners to accelerate our customer’s transition to cloud-based AWS services.

Key job responsibilities

• Advertising Technology (AdTech) Workload Transformation Ideation – Envision data-driven solutions to support customer's needs in optimizing and modernizing their sell-side advertising business across assets and facilitate cross-platform ad buying, fulfillment, and measurement
• Customer Value Management – Consult end customers and create solutions and offerings helping them impact customer LTV through AdTech investments
• Technology Leadership – Define and design solutions that exceed customer expectations based on the use of AWS services and ISV/partner offerings. Ensure all online and offline purchases and purchasing intent (e.g., CRM, external data) is considered to create a 360 profile of an end-customer/consumer
• Customer Engagements – Conduct workshops with senior executives in the Ad Ops, Ad Tech, and Ad Product organizations to capture their current state and envision solutions for accelerating their optimizations in a quantifiable manner. You will also engage with end customers of AdTech solutions/platforms to help them derive enhanced value from their investments. Develop project proposals and solution architectures to deliver on customer requirements. Stay engaged as the customer champion through all phases of project delivery to ensure value realization
• Industry Leadership – Lead AWS architecture discussions, cloud operations optimization, AWS migrations, security and integration of AWS services supporting customer requirements.
• Develop Partnerships – Develop industry solution roadmaps for clients, partners and service providers. Drive collaboration and integration between multiple AWS partners to deliver comprehensive solutions for large industry customers clients
• Industry Expertise Transfer – Work with global AWS Professional Services (ProServe) leadership to grow capabilities within the AWS Professional Services (ProServe) practice. Work with ProServe global industry leadership to stay-ahead of the leading-edge platform services and be able to deploy quickly. Support best practices efforts for all AWS and Partners. Upskill AWS ProServe builders in APJ on proven ProServe offerings.
• Customer Advocacy - Work with AWS engineering groups, technology and professional services teams conveying customer requirements, driving inputs into short-term and long-term AWS technology roadmaps.
• Industry Shows and Organizations - Participate in key industry trade shows, session panels, keynotes, industry groups, technology organizations and technology standards board's directly conveying AWS corporate messaging and driving new industry wide engagements as necessary.

This is an executive level customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations to deliver professional services when needed.

Basic qualifications

• 10+ years of consulting experience working with Data and AI/ML solutions
• 10+ years of experience in developing long-term strategies around product/ solution roadmap with execution programs to deliver on envisioned strategy
• Recent and demonstrable hands-on experience with Ad Tech workloads
• Ability to create compelling customer proposals and executive-level presentation skills
• Expert level understanding of Cloud Computing, Hybrid, Multicloud environments

Preferred qualifications

• Industry expertise in Media or Telco or Retail or Consumer Product Goods
• Experience with pre-sales
• Experience with AWS services
• AWS Cloud Certifications