Nathan Hill
Head of Telco, AWS at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Nathan Hill is Head of Telco for Amazon Web Services in Australia, working with Tier 1 and challenger telecommunications carriers on cloud and AI adoption. He speaks regularly on sovereign AI and autonomous networks for telco leaders, including at the CommsDay Summit. On Building Tech Teams with James MacDonald, he discussed how AI agents are reshaping team structures and what that work is now worth, appearing both on a dedicated episode and the show's best-of compilation.
In their own words
From Nathan Hill: Managing a Team of Agents Now — What's That Worth? · Building Tech TeamsYou can't take 20 years of experience, grab a dev and say 'now you know telco.'
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of Nobody Knows What to Pay Anymore: A Building Tech Teams Best-Of you want.
- 0:00 Cold open: what should a 10x engineer be paid?
- 0:19 Nathan Hill: quantifying what AI is actually worth
- 1:05 Million-dollar salaries as a bet on future ROI
- 1:28 Adam Witanowski: nine companies, seven offers, real numbers
- 2:35 US$500k in the US vs $220k here: which one would you choose?
- 3:50 Why the gap is structural: funding, hyperscalers, enterprise mindset
- 5:37 Claudia Barriga-Larriviere: more productive, or just faster?
- 6:15 "What you don't measure, you can't change"
- 7:26 Matt McFarlane: the jump is too big, because you've been underpaying
- 8:32 Tokens are eating the people budget
Connections
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