AI Specialist Adviser

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

As we grow our business, the Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) International Central Government team is seeking to hire a Government AI Transformation leader, responsible for leading AWS’ AI-driven government engagements with public sector customers.
They will be an experienced AI practitioner who has delivered at scale across government and/or regulated industries. They should also be internationally recognized as a thought leader and effective communicator, capable of leading the AI-driven government transformation agenda worldwide.
The Government Transformation Leader will help government and other public service leaders accelerate their modernisation and reform programs through the implementation of AI and machine learning technologies.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

* Acting as an advisor and helping public sector organizations facing strategic challenges.
* Evangelize effective AI practice in public service delivery at the C-suite level and contribute to driving user adoption and engagement.
* Building strong, long-term relationships across public sector organizations and wider WWPS engagements. Supporting public sector organizations in the process of transitioning to digital government that effectively employs AI.
* Establishing - and delivering in partnership with leading business schools thought leadership and programs for operational leaders in AI and particularly the business implications of adoption of AI in public service
* Developing AI-specific solution guides that allow customers to find and use the AWS AI services that help them achieve their goals to accelerate business transformation.
* Travel required in this role is 20-40%.



Key job responsibilities
Work with our customers to help them accelerate their modernisation and reform programs through AI. You will evangelise successful approaches to AI-driven transformation and be recognised as a leading authority in AI for public service reform. You will help our customers understand the use cases for AI as well as appropriate governance and ethical considerations for using AI in the public sector. This includes building, collaborating and publishing rich educational content becoming the trusted adviser to our C Level customers in multiple countries. You will review and maintain our public sector playbook on adoption of AI and promote this within AWS, to c-suite customers and to industry bodies / think tanks. You will also be part of the ICG leadership team building a unique capability in support of our sales and business development teams

About the team

The International Central Government Team (ICG) gives senior operational leaders the confidence, tooling and capability to accelerate their modernization and reform programs to build resilient, responsive public services through the use of the cloud. At the core of the team are former public service executives who have led nation-scale digital transformation. Our Advisory team share the experience, examples, and expertise of successful public service transformations with executive level customers.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 10+ years in leading government transformation programs with a focus on AI technologies.
- 10+ years of government financial modelling, business case development and treasury policy experience.
- 5+ years of government digital services experience.
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Articulates to senior level public sector stakeholders the value proposition of transformation and an inspiring vision for change, creating opportunities to develop markets and customers.
- Open data implementation experience.
- Wardley Mapping (or similar value chain/situational awareness mapping) experience.
- Deep technical knowledge in AI and machine learning.
- Significant international leadership experience.
- Track record of building rapport with senior customer executives.
- Experience in senior government decision making role is desirable.
- MBA or comparable education preferred