Corporate Counsel, Environmental and Health & Safety Compliance, Asia Pacific

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon's Legal Department is looking for an experienced environmental lawyer to be based in Singapore to support Amazon Web Services, a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon.com. Amazon Web Services is at the forefront of the “cloud” computing and service industry, providing IT infrastructure services such as on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, database services, browsers and more. We are looking for a talented lawyer to support Amazon's worldwide data centers that power our rapidly growing and evolving cloud computing business.

You will be part of a team responsible for counseling Amazon's data center business on a broad range of environmental, health & safety, trade, and products regulatory and compliance matters. You will work directly with Amazon Web Service's worldwide environmental and health & safety team and report to AWS' senior regulatory compliance counsel. Principal duties include providing day-to-day advice on compliance issues, monitoring and advising the business of upcoming regulatory changes, developing and improving compliance policies and procedures, working cross-functionally with other data center teams to ensure compliance, negotiating commercial transactions with vendors, resolving issues that arise in the compliance areas, and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries. Some travel, domestic and international, will be required.

Qualified candidates must have five or more years of legal experience advising on environmental laws. The successful candidate must be enthusiastic, pragmatic, enjoy working hard and being challenged, and demonstrate sound judgment even in ambiguous situations. Amazon offers its lawyers the opportunity to develop their experience and career with one of the world's most recognized and dynamic brands. Competitive salary includes equity.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· At least 5 years of legal experience in environmental matters, with at least two years of law firm experience.
· Bachelor of Law Degree (LLB) or equivalent from a reputable university.
· Admitted to practice law in Singapore, Australia, the United States or equivalent.
· Professional level fluency of English, written and spoken (fluency in an additional language will be viewed favorably).
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