Associate Corporate Counsel, AWS Sales & Marketing

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a skilled IT lawyer to support AWS sales across EMEA, focusing on commercial and public sector customers. The role involves drafting agreements, providing legal counsel, and ensuring compliance on various matters. Ideal candidates will possess a J.D. with at least 3 years of experience and fluency in English plus either Arabic or Turkish.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of legal experience following bar admission.
• Professional fluency in English and either Arabic or Turkish.
• Familiarity with cloud computing and data protection laws.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, negotiating, and advising on technology service agreements.
• Providing legal support for local and regional services.
• Managing legal issues and handling customer inquiries.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Judgment

Education

J.D. or equivalent degree

Job description

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.
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.
- 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.
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