Legal Assistant

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Work hard, have fun and make history with Amazon's legal team, helping us support the rapidly growing Amazon Web Services business. 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.
You will be part of a team responsible for counseling Amazon's data center business on a broad range of health & safety, environmental, trade, and products regulatory and compliance matters. You will provide front line support by coordinating the execution of agreements and approvals, tracking documents and other legal and administrative matters with the business groups. You will have an opportunity to work on process improvements and learn about regulatory and compliance counselling.

The successful candidate will possess the ability to complete a high volume of tasks and projects quickly with little guidance; react with appropriate urgency; take effective action without having to know the total picture; and solve problems that affect people within the group or other related groups. The candidate will also be internal client-service oriented, have great attention to detail while still meeting tight deadlines, have great organization skills, and the ability to easily switch gears. A high level of professionalism, integrity, and discretion in handling confidential information is also important. A good sense of humor is essential.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 2+ years of experience in an administrative capacity
· Bachelor's degree
· Strong written and oral communication skills
· Ability to work independently
· Client-service oriented with strong attention to detail