Corporate Counsel, AWS Legal
Amazon Flex
Responsibilities
Primary Duties
- Counseling clients on energy supply and infrastructure arrangements
- Drafting and negotiating contracts with utilities and developers
- Building new tools and mechanisms to help scale legal support
Experience Requirements
Required
Strong background in drafting legal documents and an interest in counseling clients on energy supply, infrastructure, and regulatory matters, and negotiating energy-related agreements.
Preferred
Direct experience supporting clean energy or utility agreements is a plus.
Full Job Description
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Legal team is seeking a talented and experienced attorney with an understanding and interest to support AWS's continued work to build and maintain the world's largest corporate carbon-free energy portfolio, solve emerging energy and carbon challenges, and more.
Amazon, including AWS, co-founded The Climate Pledge and committed to powering its global operations with 100% renewable energy by 2030 and reaching Net Zero Carbon by 2040 ten years ahead of the Paris Climate Agreement.
You will have a strong background in drafting legal documents and an interest in counseling clients on energy supply, infrastructure, and regulatory matters, and negotiating energy-related agreements. Direct experience supporting clean energy or utility agreements is a plus.
A day in the life will be filled with counseling clients on energy supply and infrastructure arrangements, drafting and negotiating contracts with utilities and developers, and building new tools and mechanisms to help scale our legal support.
About the team: The team is enthusiastic about technology, energy, and sustainability and enjoys being continually challenged to innovate. We are deeply entrenched in AWS's energy strategy and advise our clients on commercial structures, risks and benefits, and policy developments.





