Associate Corporate Counsel, AWS Legal

About the role

Join Amazon's Legal Department as an Associate Corporate Counsel supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS), where you'll shape the infrastructure that powers cloud computing globally.

Responsibilities

• Structure, draft, and negotiate commercial real estate agreements and leases, ranging from standard contracts to complex, bespoke, high-value transactions that support AWS's data center expansion
• Provide legal counsel and contract interpretation to business team members on a daily basis, helping them understand obligations, risks, and opportunities within commercial relationships
• Manage outside counsel relationships and coordinate external resources to support transactional work and dispute resolution
• Develop and implement process improvements across the legal team to enhance efficiency and consistency in handling commercial matters
• Resolve legal issues that arise in existing commercial relationships and handle pre-litigation disputes and inquiries

Qualifications

• 2+ years of legal experience
• Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
• Experience drafting and negotiating a variety of real estate transactional documents (i.e. leases, lease amendments, purchase and sale agreements, easements, development agreements, co-ownership agreements etc.)

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Pay

Base salary range: $131,500.00 - $178,000.00 USD annually

Schedule

Full-time