Associate Corporate Counsel, AWS Sales & Marketing
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time

Description
Amazon’s Legal Department is looking for a talented cloud services/IT lawyer to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) in selling to commercial and public sector customers throughout the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, with a primary focus on supporting AWS sales in the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Turkey. 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, and more to private and public sector customers.
Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and advising on strategic technology service agreements with enterprise customers, public sector customers, and partners, as well as providing legal support for local and regional services and initiatives. The role will also involve ongoing legal counsel and regulatory interpretation and guidance for senior executives and other business and legal team members on a variety of product development, operational, security, compliance, data protection and public policy matters. The role includes participating in other legal team projects, including managing legal issues that arise in existing relationships and handling customer and business partner inquiries.
The successful candidate will be proactive, entrepreneurial, enjoy being challenged, have strong written and oral communication skills, and demonstrate sound, pragmatic judgment in ambiguous situations.
This position is based in our office in Dubai, UAE. Some regional and international travel will be required.
Basic Qualifications
Company - Amazon Web Services EMEA Dubai FZ Branch
Job ID: A2984867
Amazon’s Legal Department is looking for a talented cloud services/IT lawyer to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) in selling to commercial and public sector customers throughout the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region, with a primary focus on supporting AWS sales in the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Turkey. 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, and more to private and public sector customers.
Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and advising on strategic technology service agreements with enterprise customers, public sector customers, and partners, as well as providing legal support for local and regional services and initiatives. The role will also involve ongoing legal counsel and regulatory interpretation and guidance for senior executives and other business and legal team members on a variety of product development, operational, security, compliance, data protection and public policy matters. The role includes participating in other legal team projects, including managing legal issues that arise in existing relationships and handling customer and business partner inquiries.
The successful candidate will be proactive, entrepreneurial, enjoy being challenged, have strong written and oral communication skills, and demonstrate sound, pragmatic judgment in ambiguous situations.
This position is based in our office in Dubai, UAE. Some regional and international travel will be required.
Basic Qualifications
- A J.D., LLB or equivalent degree and admission to practice law
- Minimum 3+ years of legal experience following bar admission.
- Previous work experience in a law firm, government, or in-house at a technology company.
- Transactional experience, including drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
- Professional fluency in English, written and spoken. In addition, professional fluency in either Arabic or Turkish.
- Excellent communication, drafting and negotiation skills.
- Familiarity with cloud computing, cybersecurity, IT infrastructure and telecommunications policies, laws, and regulations.
- Familiarity with data protection laws.
- Experience with IT transactions, including services agreements.
- Knowledge of government procurement processes and contracting laws, rules, and regulations.
- The successful candidate must be enthusiastic, fast learning, self-motivated, enjoy working hard and being challenged, able to work independently and at times with little supervision, and demonstrate sound judgment in challenging and ambiguous situations.
Company - Amazon Web Services EMEA Dubai FZ Branch
Job ID: A2984867
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