Associate Corporate Counsel, AWS Legal

DESCRIPTION

Amazon’s Legal Department is looking for a talented technology 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 Israel. AWS is at the forefront of the cloud computing industry, providing AI and 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.

We are looking for a candidate who is proactive, entrepreneurial, enjoys being challenged, has strong technology and communication skills, and demonstrates sound, pragmatic judgment in ambiguous situations.

This position is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Some regional and international travel will be required.

A day in the life
The role involves providing legal support to AWS's Sales team in service of a tech-savvy Israeli customer base across commercial and public sector engagements, covering a range of cloud and technology transactions with customers who are often highly knowledgeable about the technology they procure. Work extends beyond Israel to include cross-geography transactional and regulatory support across EMEA, delivered through team work allocation and ad-hoc assignments in collaboration with colleagues across multiple jurisdictions. Day-to-day activities may include negotiating enterprise agreements with local customers, advising on regulatory matters, and coordinating with EMEA teammates on multi-country deal structures.

About the team
The Israel AWS Legal team is part of the broader EMEA SMGS Legal organization and consists of lawyers supporting AWS's Israeli customer base across commercial and public sector engagements. The team also handles EMEA-wide workstreams, including leading the competition law matters across EMEA and co-leading global SMGS AI legal workstream. Work spans transactional, regulatory, and advisory support across multiple jurisdictions, requiring close collaboration with business stakeholders and legal colleagues throughout the region.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years of legal experience
- Experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts
- Qualified to practice law in Israel.
- Previous work experience in a law firm, government, or in-house at a technology company.
- Professional fluency in English and Hebrew, written and spoken.
- Excellent communication, drafting and negotiation skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in web services/cloud computing, software licensing, telecommunications or equivalent
- Experience negotiating software and services agreements
- Familiarity with cloud computing, IT infrastructure and telecommunications policies, laws, and regulations.
- Familiarity with AI tools and capabilities
- Experience supporting Israeli government/public sector procurement.
- Experience engaging with policy makers, regulators, government contracting officials, system integrators, prime contractors, subcontractors, and resellers.
- Curiosity about the way things work and proclivity to innovate and simplify.

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