Amanda Lester

About Amanda Lester

Amanda Lester is a Senior Generative AI Go-To-Market Specialist at Amazon Web Services, helping to put artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the hands of every developer and ML engineer. Experienced business executive with a proven track record of success at both Fortune 500 and fast-growing technology companies. Amanda specializes in new market opportunities, defining and building products that create multi-billion dollar growth businesses. Amanda delivers c-suite engagements on strategic Gen AI/ML transformations across all geographies and industries. Amanda has a deep background in leading strategic go-to-market efforts and managing product launches in an agile environment. She is passionate about helping accelerate the growth of the tech community through programs to support gender equality, entrepreneurship, and STEM education. Amanda not only lives and leads with integrity, but is committed to ensuring that she transforms the people, projects, and organizations she encounters.Amanda\'s superpowers are customer obsession, ownership, deliver results, and insisting on the highest standards to ensure teams deliver high-quality products, services, and mechanisms for customers.*My posts are my own and do not reflect the opinions of my current, past, or future employers.*

Experience

1. Senior Ww Genai Go-to-market Specialist, Amazon Bedrock

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   May 2024 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing businesses of Amazon. Since 2006, AWS has provided companies of all sizes with cloud technology products & solutions and access to a global computing infrastructure to fuel their growth. Today, AWS powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. Come build the future with us: amazon.jobsI lead worldwide outbound product management and GTM strategy to accelerate adoption and growth of the following GenAI product lines:* Amazon Bedrock is the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/* Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade services that help developers quickly and securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model, hosted on Amazon Bedrock or elsewhere. Learn more: https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/* Strands Agents SDK is a simple-to-use, code-first framework for building agents. Learn more here: https://github.com/strands-agents/sdk-python

Education

• Saint Mary's College

  BA, Mass Communications

  2008 — 2012

• University of Notre Dame

  Minor, International Peace Studies

  2008 — 2012

• University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2019 — 2021

Skills

• Business Development
• Marketo
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Content Marketing
• SEO
• Social Media
• Advertising
• Tinderbox
• Salesforce.com
• Sales Enablement
• Beta Management
• Marketing
• Saas
• Demand Generation
• Competitive Analysis
• Brand Positioning Strategies
• Google Analytics
• New Product Ideas
• Product Marketing
• Event Management
• Pardot
• Walkme
• Docusign
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Public Relations
• Marketing Strategy
• Product Launch
• Strategic Partnerships
• Entrepreneurship
• Market Research
• Press Releases