Contracts Manager, AWS Real Estate, AWS Legal

$68,400 - $146,300/Yr

Amazon - Santa Monica, CA

Full-time

Santa Monica, CA

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About the position

The Contracts Manager for AWS Real Estate will play a crucial role in supporting the legal aspects of Amazon Web Services' (AWS) data center expansion. This position involves drafting and negotiating various real estate documents, providing contracting advice, and managing outside counsel while driving process improvements in real estate transactions.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate service agreements, work orders, easements, lease amendments, and other real estate documents.
• Provide day-to-day contracting advice to business team members.
• Support AWS's existing real estate portfolio and work cross-functionally with other teams.
• Drive process improvements and initiatives to track and simplify real estate transactions from beginning to end.
• Manage outside counsel and create and lead trainings.

Requirements

• 5+ years of contracts management, paralegal, or comparable experience within a law firm, legal department, or property management or real estate development company.
• Experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts.
• Real estate and/or construction contract experience.
• Project management experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Legal Department experience.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Effective at prioritizing and managing multiple tasks of varying duration and complexity.
• Demonstrates judgment even in ambiguous situations.
• Curious, adaptable, enthusiastic, and enjoys working hard and being challenged in a fun, team-oriented environment.
• Bachelor's degree.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on market location and experience.
• Equity and sign-on payments may be provided as part of the total compensation package.
• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.