Corporate Counsel, Amazon
AWS Legal
Some travel may be required
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Some travel may be required
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for candidates who are innovative, progressive, hands-on, and highly customer-obsessed professionals
- Exceptional academic qualifications
- Significant post-qualification legal experience (5+ years) at a leading global law firm, ideally with at least 4 years in private practice
- High degree of independence, initiative, decisiveness and creative thinking, as well as a desire to be challenged
- Excellent communication, drafting and negotiation skills
- Ability to prioritize in a fast-moving environment
Desirable
- Familiar with cloud computing, IT infrastructure and telecommunications
- In-house experience at a technology or internet company
- Significant technology transactional and regulatory experience
- Experience with professional services contracting
What the job involves
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) is at the forefront of the cloud computing industry providing IT infrastructure services such as on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, database services, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and more
- We are looking for a curious and capable Corporate Counsel to support the AWS sales and marketing teams across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa to help support our AWS Professional Services business
- The successful candidate will be responsible for drafting, negotiating and advising on strategic technology professional service agreements with enterprise customers and partners through a variety of agreement types
- The role will also involve ongoing legal counsel and regulatory interpretation and guidance for senior executives and other business and legal team members
- Developing innovative solutions to better serve our customers and clients is part of our daily business
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.
Steph
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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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