Highlights
Your day might include drafting and negotiating terms for complex, high-value cloud technology transactions, collaborating with sales and marketing teams to understand their business objectives, and providing guidance to support their decision-making. You"ll serve as a trusted advisor to business leadership, negotiate complex cloud technology transactions, and develop innovative solutions that enable us to scale legal support to our global client base.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Santa Monica, CA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
Join Amazon"s Legal Department as an Associate Corporate Counsel supporting AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services. You"ll serve as a trusted advisor to business leadership, negotiate complex cloud technology transactions, and develop innovative solutions that enable us to scale legal support to our global client base.
Key job responsibilities
- Draft, negotiate, and finalize terms for complex, high-value cloud technology transactions, demonstrating sound judgment in ambiguous situations and balancing legal risk with business objectives
- Provide ongoing legal counsel and contract interpretation guidance to AWS business team members, serving as a trusted advisor on transactional and commercial matters
- Manage legal issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, working to resolve disputes and maintain strong client partnerships
- Advise business leadership on legal risk associated with new business initiatives and market opportunities
- Address pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries, working collaboratively with business teams to develop appropriate responses and resolutions
A day in the life
As an Associate Corporate Counsel on the AWS legal team, you"ll engage in meaningful work that directly impacts how we serve our customers worldwide. Your day might include drafting and negotiating terms for complex, high-value cloud technology transactions, collaborating with sales and marketing teams to understand their business objectives, and providing guidance to support their decision-making. You"ll also advise on issues within existing commercial relationships and risk associated with new business initiatives, and support pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries. Throughout your work, you"ll balance independent project ownership with collaboration across our legal team and the business, contributing your perspective to help us find creative solutions that scale our legal capabilities globally.
About the team
We are a collaborative legal team dedicated to supporting AWS"s mission of making cloud technology accessible and valuable to businesses worldwide. Our team values partnership with business leaders and takes pride in providing thoughtful, practical legal guidance that enables innovation. We"re focused on building scalable legal solutions that support our growing global client base, and we"re looking for someone who shares our commitment to understanding the business context behind every legal question. You"ll work alongside experienced attorneys who are passionate about cloud technology and committed to mentoring and supporting one another as we navigate complex, evolving legal challenges together.
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles