Highlights
Your day might include drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with enterprise customers, advising a business partner on how to structure a new commercial engagement, or collaborating with product and business teams to address regulatory questions. You"ll draft and negotiate critical commercial agreements, provide strategic legal guidance to business leaders, and help navigate complex regulatory landscapes while directly influencing how we serve millions of customers globally.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Arlington, VA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
Description
Join Amazon Web Services as Corporate Counsel and shape the legal strategy for one of the world"s most innovative cloud computing platforms. You"ll draft and negotiate critical commercial agreements, provide strategic legal guidance to business leaders, and help navigate complex regulatory landscapes while directly influencing how we serve millions of customers globally.
Key job responsibilities
- Provide legal counsel to business leaders and cross-functional teams on commercial transactions.
- Research and advise on legal issues relevant to cloud computing services, including data processing terms, industry-specific requirements and evolving commercial frameworks for cloud services.
- Collaborate with business development teams to support customer engagements and help structure deals that meet business and legal objectives.
- Manage a portfolio of customer relationships and commercial matters with increasing independence, including leading negotiations, advising on contract terms, and developing creative solutions to complex deal issues.
- Partner with other legal teams (intellectual property, privacy, products, compliance) to deliver coordinated legal guidance on cross-cutting legal matters.
A day in the life
As a Corporate Counsel supporting Amazon Web Services, you"ll engage in a variety of meaningful legal work that directly impacts our business operations. Your day might include drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with enterprise customers, advising a business partner on how to structure a new commercial engagement, or collaborating with product and business teams to address regulatory questions. You"ll collaborate closely with business stakeholders and other legal teams to deliver practical, business-oriented legal advice on time-sensitive matters. Throughout your work, you"ll develop expertise in cloud computing services while building relationships across our organization.
About the team
We are part of the AWS Sales and Marketing Legal team, supporting AWS"s industry business units and go-to-market teams. Our attorneys serve as trusted legal advisors to business leaders across a range of industries, helping structure and negotiate commercial relationships with some of AWS"s largest and most strategic customers. We value practical problem-solving, intellectual curiosity, and a collaborative approach to legal work. We"re excited to welcome someone who is curious, detail-oriented, and eager to grow their legal expertise in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
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