Amazon's Legal Department is looking for a talented commercial or real estate lawyer to fill the position of Corporate Counsel – Data Center Leasing and Colocation supporting Amazon Web Services (AWS), a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon.com.
AWS is at the forefront of the cloud computing and service industry, providing IT infrastructure services such as on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, database, machine learning, and more.
As part of the AWS colocation legal team, you will be responsible for supporting AWS's worldwide data center expansion through colocation services agreements. You will have transactional drafting and negotiating responsibilities on deals, and will provide legal counsel and contract interpretation to business team members on a daily basis. Transactions range from standard contracts to complex, bespoke, high-value agreements. You will structure, draft and negotiate agreements, help support AWS’s existing data center portfolio, manage outside counsel, and advise internal business clients. In addition, you will help develop, implement, and manage process improvements across the team, resolve legal issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, and handle pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries.
Members of our team are enthusiastic, curious, enjoy working hard and being challenged, and demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations. Amazon offers its attorneys the opportunity to develop their experience and career with one of the world’s most recognized and dynamic brands. Competitive salary based on experience and includes equity compensation.
This position is located in Singapore.
A typical day might include the following activities:
• A couple of short meetings with business partners and other legal team members to share updates on ongoing projects, in-progress deals, or recent industry developments
• Drafting the transaction documents for a new deal
• Negotiating outstanding legal, commercial, and technical issues with one or more counterparties
• Working on a new process to simplify or expedite how we transact with our counterparties
• Attending a strategy planning meeting focused on expanding into a new region or deploying a new type of infrastructure or customer-facing service
About the team
We are looking for candidates who are eager to learn and develop as part of our team. Like all of Amazon Legal, our team embraces diversity and is committed to furthering an inclusive culture. Our team comprises people from many different backgrounds who work in London, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Singapore, Sydney, and the Washington D.C. metro area. We have a collaborative and supportive culture that emphasizes coaching new team members, sharing ideas to improve and reinvent existing processes, and giving each team member substantial responsibility and independent discretion.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Basic qualifications
• J.D. degree (or equivalent) and bar membership in good standing in at least one jurisdiction
• 5+ full years of legal experience as a transactional attorney (with 4+ full years at a law firm)
• Experience drafting and negotiating a variety of complex real estate or commercial transactional documents (e.g., leases, lease amendments, purchase and sale agreements, easements, operating agreements, license agreements, etc.)
Preferred qualifications
• Efficient organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects at once, follow through, and meet deadlines using pragmatic judgment
• Ability to work independently and proactively, while also collaborating effectively with other legal team members and global business teams
• Creative analytical skills
• Effective written and oral communication skills, and an ability to clearly and simply summarize complex ideas