Corporate Counsel, Real Estate - AWS (Seattle) Job at Amazon, Seattle, WA

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  • Amazon
  • Seattle, WA

Job Description

Amazon's Legal Department is looking for a talented commercial real estate lawyer to fill the position of Legal Counsel – Real Estate/Colo 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 services, and more.

As part of the AWS legal team, you will be responsible for supporting AWS's worldwide data center expansion through land acquisitions, leases and serviced licenses. 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 and leases, help support AWS's existing 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.

The successful candidate must be enthusiastic, enjoy working hard and being challenged, and demonstrate sound judgment even in ambiguous situations.

Minimum Requirements:

  1. 5+ years of legal experience
  2. Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
  3. Experience drafting and negotiating a variety of real estate transactional documents (i.e. leases, lease amendments, purchase and sale agreements, easements, development agreements, co-ownership agreements etc.)
  4. Experience of a mix of corporate law firm and in-house work
  5. Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines

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.

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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Job Tags

Full time, Contract work, Worldwide,

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