Principal, Customer Solutions Manager, RDS Service Team

As a Principal Customer Solutions Manager, you"ll lead the highest-stakes enterprise cloud engagements - taking ownership of critical escalations, bringing calm and structure when situations are urgent and information is incomplete, and keeping large groups of people aligned and moving toward a resolution everyone can trust. You"ll also turn hard-won lessons from these moments into better ways of working and clearer guidance that shapes how our products evolve, all while earning your customers" trust as the strategic advisor they count on when it matters most.

Key job responsibilities

Lead High-Visibility Escalations: Own and drive the response to the most critical, executive-visible escalations, establishing a clear operating rhythm, coordinating responders across many teams, communicating status and decisions to senior leadership, and driving issues to resolution while keeping customers and stakeholders informed and confident.

Perform Under Pressure: Bring calm, structure, and high judgment to ambiguous, fast-moving, high-stakes situations; make sound decisions with incomplete information, prioritize ruthlessly, and create clarity for customers, partners, executives, and internal teams when urgency is highest.

Orchestrate across sales, solutions architecture, enterprise support, professional services, and AWS partners

Create Mechanisms and automation: Develop and implement mechanisms and automation - including escalation and coordination models, dashboards, and reports.

Communicate & Advise: Communicate exceptionally across all organizational levels with external stakeholders (up to and including C-suite executives) and industry partners, translating complex situations into clear recommendations that drive alignment and decisions.

Lead & Develop Others: Demonstrate thought leadership that shapes how teams execute at scale; mentor other leaders and develop them as thought leaders across teams and communities.

Advocate for the Customer: Provide actionable customer insights and feedback that inform AWS service improvements.

A day in the life

As a Principal CSM, you serve as the trusted strategic advisor and central connector between enterprise customers and the AWS RDS Service team. You"ll spend much of your time driving cross-organization collaboration - working with and across sales, enterprise support, engineering, and product management. You will build and scale mechanisms that eliminate non-differentiated work, mentoring senior CSMs and technical leaders, and synthesizing patterns into insights that shape both team practices and the AWS product roadmap.

About the team

Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career hasn"t followed a traditional path, 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.

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.

Mentorship & Career Growth: We"re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth"s Best Employer. You"ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.