Job Title: Corporate Counsel, AWS Legal Infrastructure
Job Responsibilities:
- Supporting and directly advising business partners on legal, commercial, operational, regulatory, and other risks.
- Developing, advising on, and implementing with the business vendor engagement, contractual, and negotiation strategies.
- Collaborating cross-functionally to identify and resolve commercial, operational, compliance, regulatory, security, safety, legal, and customer/vendor issues.
- Structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial and technology-related agreements, including development, supply, manufacturing services, software licensing, services, and other bespoke agreements.
- Providing a blend of counseling and transactional support to teams dedicated to engineering, supply chain, security, and procurement of the technology that all AWS cloud services and customers rely upon.
- Working directly with a wide array of teams across AWS to advise and support teams dedicated to security, compliance, and risk management of AWS infrastructure.
- Helping develop and launch new hardware and manage the supply chain for these technologies deployed around the globe.
- Identifying, counseling on, and resolving a wide array of commercial, operational, regulatory, and compliance issues.
- Owning and delivering on diverse and complex projects and transactions simultaneously.
- Partnering with clients to develop and execute appropriate mitigation strategies and ultimately help chart long-term strategy for AWS infrastructure.
Education and Experience Information:
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of legal experience.
- Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience of a mix of corporate law firm and in-house work.
- 2+ years at a leading law firm or in-house.
- Proven track record of strong judgment in the absence of precedent.
- Strong ability to identify key issues and solve problems using creative solutions.
- Experience providing legal counsel and support for regulatory and compliance matters.
- Experience providing prompt, practical, crisp, and actionable legal advice.
- Demonstrated enthusiasm for technology.
- Ability to lead and influence cross-functionally to resolve complicated problems.
- Common sense, great judgment, and a good sense of humor.
- Transactional, drafting, and negotiations experience of complex commercial or technology agreements.
Salary Information:
The base pay for this position ranges from $138,500/year in the lowest geographic market up to $229,000/year in the highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The company is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
