Corporate Counsel, Aws Infra Legal

DESCRIPTION Amazon's Legal Department is looking for a talented commercial real estate lawyer to fill the position of Corporate Counsel – Real Estate 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 real estate legal team, you will be responsible for supporting AWS's worldwide data center expansion through land acquisitions and leasing. 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 real estate'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. Competitive salary based on experience and includes equity compensation.
This position is located in Arlington, Virginia or Seattle, Washington.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Santa Monica, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
- 8+ full years of legal experience as a transactional real estate attorney (with 4+ full years at a law firm); 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.)