Associate Corporate Counsel, Amazon
Environment
+ Equity compensation
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity compensation
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- At least six years of post-qualification legal experience
- Excellent academic qualifications
- Legal experience in environmental compliance matters, with at least two years at a law firm
- High degree of independence, initiative, decisiveness and strategic thinking, as well as a desire to be challenged
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to be a partner to business stakeholders
- The successful candidate must be enthusiastic, pragmatic, enjoy working hard and finding creative solutions to complex business problems, and demonstrate sound judgment even in ambiguous situations
Desirable
- Previous data center compliance experience
- A mix of law firm and in-house experience Excellent organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple projects at once, follow through and meet deadlines
- Demonstrated experience writing successfully for a diverse range of audiences
What the job involves
- We are seeking an environmental attorney to be based in our London office to support Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS provides cutting edge cloud computing services and IT infrastructure to public and private clients around the globe, including on-demand compute capacity, data storage, content delivery, database services, browsers, and more
- The successful candidate will join the AWS Legal Regulatory Risk Management & Compliance team focusing on environmental compliance of AWS’s facilities and operations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
- You will be part of a team that counsels Amazon’s data center business on a broad range of environmental, regulatory, procurement, sustainability, and compliance matters
- Principal duties include providing day-to-day advice on compliance issues, monitoring upcoming environmental regulatory changes and advising the business on advocacy strategies, advising on new region expansion and site development pathways for new facilities, working cross-functionally with other data center teams to ensure operational compliance, negotiating commercial transactions with vendors, and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries
- This role will give the successful candidate an opportunity to join a collaborative, tight-knit team that is leading exciting and pioneering global initiatives as part of a business that is making history
- Some international travel will be required
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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