Associate Corporate Counsel, Amazon
Worldwide Grocery Stores Legal
$131.5-178k
Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$131.5-178k
Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume environment and can independently manage multiple work streams while delivering sound legal advice
- Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
- 2+ years of post bar admission legal experience
- Experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts
Desirable
- Experience managing projects and working independently
- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication
- Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization
- Familiarity with procurement, vendor management, or supply chain contracting
- Experience developing or improving contracting templates, workflows, or legal process efficiencies
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with a focus on enabling the business while managing risk appropriately
What the job involves
- Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS) Legal team is looking for a talented and motivated Associate Corporate Counsel to join our team
- This role will support WWGS's diverse portfolio of businesses including Whole Foods Market and other grocery initiatives by providing practical, business-oriented legal counsel on a broad range of transactional and commercial matters
- Amazon is passionate about solving a fundamental customer need, groceries, making shopping more convenient and providing customers with many choices, whether online or in-person
- You will work closely with business, technology, and cross-functional teams to structure, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements, and help develop scalable legal processes that enable the business to move quickly
- Structure, draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including vendor contracts, licensing agreements, professional services agreements, and procurement-related contracts
- Provide day-to-day legal counsel to internal business clients across WWGS on transactional and commercial matters
- Partner with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives and resolve legal issues efficiently
- Identify opportunities to streamline and standardize contracting processes, including developing template agreements and playbooks to reduce negotiation cycles
- Support compliance and training initiatives related to contracting policies and approval frameworks
- Manage external counsel relationships as needed to support transactional workstreams
- Advise on legal and regulatory matters that arise in connection with commercial transactions, including vendor management considerations
- Exercise sound judgment in ambiguous situations and escalate complex or novel issues appropriately
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & 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)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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