Corporate Counsel, Amazon
Amazon Music Legal
$138.5-229k
Some travel may be required
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$138.5-229k
Some travel may be required
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- Do you love entertainment, media, and technology?
- Are you looking for exciting and creative challenges in an innovation-driven, talent-focused company?
- We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights
- 5+ years of legal experience
- Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
Desirable
- 5+ years of experience as a litigation or regulatory attorney, preferably with some of that time spent advising clients on IP, technology, entertainment, and/or consumer law issues
- Excellent analytical and communication skills and the ability to act as business partner
- Ability to develop creative and pragmatic solutions to novel legal questions
- Good judgment in ambiguous and fast-moving situations
- Ability to deliver results independently as well as collaboratively
- Ability to remain nimble, learn, be curious, and adapt to a changing world
What the job involves
- Come make history as a member of the Amazon Entertainment legal team in Amazon’s world-class legal department, supporting Amazon Music
- When you join the Amazon Entertainment team, you are uniquely situated to create a future of entertainment where creative content, innovation, and commerce come together
- Providing strategic guidance on regulatory matters (in particular compliance with new laws) and new industry and business developments
- Closely cooperating with business and legal stakeholders across Amazon Global Media and Entertainment
- Some travel may be required
- You will be the primary legal support for many Amazon Music business clients in North America and globally
- You will directly advise the Amazon Music businesses on a broad range of matters, focusing on regulatory guidance
- You will work as the lead lawyer on strategic projects, providing day-to-day advice to the business on a wide range of legal areas and new business initiatives
- You will be asked to develop innovative solutions to novel legal questions
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
- Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
- 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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