Senior Corporate Counsel, AWS Legal

Amazon’s Legal Department is looking for a talented attorney to support Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s fastest growing technology companies. AWS provides cutting edge cloud computing services and IT infrastructure trusted by millions of customers around the world - including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.

This role will provide a blend of product, regulatory, and security counseling to AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) teams dedicated to customer-facing product offerings focused on defense and intelligence use cases, logical and hardware security, supply chain resiliency and regulations, and infrastructure audit responses. This is a growing and high-impact area within AWS, evidenced by increasing shift of defense and intelligence customers to the cloud, heightened regulatory/customer interest in supply chain, and global interest in regulating supply chain based on sovereignty, security, or resiliency.

This role provides a blend of counseling and strategic advice across security, compliance, supply chain risk disciplines, and product counseling. This role will manage a small team of individuals with diverse skills and types of work, and directly support multiple senior AIS leaders.

We expect this role to own and deliver on diverse and complex transactions and projects simultaneously. Successful candidates will possess a clear and concise communication style, demonstrate strong organizational skills, and effectively collaborate across multiple internal teams and with customers and counterparties.


Key job responsibilities
- Analyzing, interpreting, and applying audit requirements, contract obligations, and regulations related to AIS hardware and supply chain security and resiliency
- Advocating internally and with customers/regulators to shape requirements that work for cloud architecture and our global supply chain
- Supporting security incident response for AIS (3,600+ high-severity events annually; ~10% requiring legal involvement)—often high-stakes, time-sensitive, and requiring rapid escalation
- Leading customer contract reviews and negotiations, including crafting counterproposals during multi-billion-dollar transactions
- Counseling through product launches, including transactional support for bespoke hardware, addressing compliance/privacy concerns, etc.
- Building mechanisms and compliance frameworks—e.g., automated supplier diligence tooling, ADC requirement tracking, IP hygiene protocols
- Counseling AIS leadership on legal and compliance risks, distilling inputs from competing stakeholders, and driving high-stakes decisions under ambiguity
- Managing and developing direct reports (currently 4 attorneys), including coaching on promotion readiness and calibrating work product - Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
- 10+ years of post bar admission legal experience
- Experience – in product counseling and regulatory work - Knowledge of IT infrastructure, outsourcing, telecommunications, cloud computing services or equivalent
- Experience - managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 195,000.00 - 263,800.00 USD annually