Sr. Marketing Manager, Startup Community Marketing, Global Startup Marketing

Startup Community Marketing Manager

We're seeking an exceptional marketing professional to lead our Startup community marketing efforts in the San Francisco area, to develop high-impact marketing initiatives across the region for our earliest stage customers. In this role, you'll execute community engagement activities to meet our customers where they are.

Key job responsibilities include :

• Technical immersion programs
• Startup ecosystem reach initiatives through strategic 3P event activation, vertical-specific competitions, and formalized partnerships with key accelerators and community hubs
• Migration programs to convert engaged founders into AWS customers

A successful Startup Community Marketing Manager excels in strategic thinking, event execution, and is adept at project prioritization in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial marketer deeply immersed in the marketing and tech landscape, possessing an innate understanding of the San Francisco startup community including trends and topics that resonate with our customers and understands how to meet our customers where they are. They thrive on identifying opportunities, thinking big, taking ownership, and are persistent in the pursuit of program execution, even in complex, ever-evolving, and ambiguous contexts.

This role requires collaboration with the Startup marketing team and cross-functional geo teams, a deep understanding of end-to-end program management, and the ability to ideate fresh, new ideas that spark interest and drive growth. Domestic travel is required.

About the team

The startup organization at AWS comprises experts from across the global ecosystem, including former founders and CTOs, venture capitalists, angel investors, and mentors who upskill today's founders to navigate challenges and opportunities as they build their business, and our Startup Marketing team is where the magic happens. This high-performing team drives global initiatives that aid in supporting entrepreneurs and startups across their entire journey. For marketers who like to invent, there's no better place to build than on the AWS Startup Marketing team.

About AWS

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