Legal Counsel for Project Kuiper, Amazon
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about technology, enjoys being continually challenged, and demonstrates sound judgment even in ambiguous situations
- License to practice law in Europe, US or other common law jurisdiction
- Outstanding academic qualifications with 5+ years of post-qualification legal experience at a law firm or in-house counsel role
- Demonstrated experience counseling clients on international deals
Desirable
- A mix of law firm and in-house experience a plus
- Experience counseling clients on deals in EMEA
- Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams
- Strong written and oral communication skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented lawyer to join the Amazon Legal team supporting Project Kuiper
- You will be embedded with the Kuiper commercial business development and operations team and support business leaders as counsel on strategic partnership and enterprise customer deals, with a focus on deals in EMEA
- You will structure, draft, and negotiate a range of agreements, and counsel the business team on various legal issues related to business operations
- The successful candidate will develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative, business-centric ways and build processes that address risk and allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly
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16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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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