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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing rapidly, and we are looking for a Technical Customer Advisor to join our Trust & Safety, Customer Advisory Team. Our environment is fast-paced and requires someone who is flexible, biased for action, detail-oriented, holds high personal standards, and is comfortable tracking multiple threads across many teams. This is an inherently cross-functional role that requires close collaboration with multiple teams across the organization to develop scalable and sustainable solutions.
As a Trust & Safety, Technical Customer Advisor, you'll engage with strategic level customers, providing Trust & Safety SME (Subject Matter Expert) to identify, inform & advise customers, and leverage the voice of the Customer to drive global strategic solutions. You will tackle the most impactful issues to drive scalable and long-term solutions that protect and mitigate abuse. You will facilitate cross functional stakeholder meetings with Policy, Legal and AWS Account teams consisting of Technical Account managers (TAM’s), Sales, and Solution Architects. You are passionate about using your analytical skills to identify problems, find solutions, and improve relationships.
Key job responsibilities
• Relationship building: Build trust and rapport with assigned customers, identifying areas of opportunity, highlighting best practices, and documenting insights to enable Trust & Safety strategies.
• Engagement & Solutions: Foster positive interactions with both customers and cross-functional teams. Ask probing questions and go in-depth on technical specifics to facilitate constructive dialogues. Contribute to customer system architecture and identify gaps/interoperability challenges. Identify when to use existing solutions and recommend custom solutions.
• Analyze Data and Report Insights: Generate weekly and monthly reports spotlighting customer abuse patterns. Highlight key findings and trends to keep leadership informed.
• Escalate Issues: Flag any concerning situations or abnormalities to managers in a timely manner. Provide relevant details and context to enable appropriate response and resolution.
• Customer experience: Act as the Voice of the Customer. Seek solutions to customer needs, communicate trends to leadership, and suggest innovative solutions on behalf of the customer experience.
• Communication: Distill customer technical needs into clear, concise documentation, and effectively communicate with internal engineering teams. Utilize critical thinking to carry out in-depth investigations.
• Technical knowledge: Broad knowledge of security, networking, system engineering, data analytics, or AI/ML to collaborate in sourcing sustainable solutions to address Trust & Safety related matters.
About the team
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience in Trust & Safety roles, or a similar environment
- Basic understanding of Internet security concepts, firewalls, common security issues, computing environments, web technology, Internet, operating systems, email servers
- Knowledge of email servers/services and best practices, including SQL and another relational database experience
- Minimum High School Diploma
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Associate/Bachelor's degree in a Computer Science or related field OR related experience
- Understanding of Cloud Computing and AWS services
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification
- Strong customer handling, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills
- Experience owning and driving resolution for escalated customer issues
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for summarizing technical issues or presenting findings
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $65,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $143,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.