Corporate Counsel, AWS Sales & Marketing

Corporate Counsel, AWS Sales & Marketing

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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 Italy. 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 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 Rome, Italy. Some regional and international travel will be required.

Basic Qualifications

• Qualified to practice law in Italy.
• Significant post-qualification legal experience (7+ years).
• Previous work experience in a law firm, government, or in-house at a technology company.
• Transactional experience, including drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and experience supporting Italian government/public sector procurement.
• Professional fluency in English and Italian, written and spoken.
• Excellent communication, drafting and negotiation skills.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud computing, IT infrastructure and telecommunications policies, laws, and regulations.
• Experience with IT transactions, including services agreements.
• Experience engaging with policy makers, regulators, government contracting officials, system integrators, prime contractors, subcontractors, and resellers.
• Knowledge of EU government/public sector procurement processes and contracting laws, rules, and regulations, and experience supporting EU government/public sector procurement.

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Company

AWS EMEA SARL (Italy Branch)

Job ID: A

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