Associate Corporate Counsel, AWS Sales & Marketing

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology firm is seeking a skilled lawyer for their Dubai office to provide legal support for cloud services agreements and compliance. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of legal experience, professional fluency in English, and familiarity with data protection laws. Excellent communication and negotiation skills are essential for this role, which may involve regional and international travel.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of legal experience following bar admission.
• Professional fluency in English and either Arabic or Turkish.
• Ability to draft and negotiate commercial contracts.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate, and advise on technology service agreements.
• Provide legal support for initiatives and compliance matters.
• Manage legal issues and handle partner inquiries.

Skills

Legal experience

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Cloud computing familiarity

Data protection law knowledge

Education

J.D. or equivalent degree

Job description

Overview

Amazons 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.

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.

Location and Travel

Dubai, UAE with regional and international travel as required.

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
• Required Experience: IC

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