Corporate Counsel, Amazon
Content Legal
$138.5-229k
Office located in Newark, NJ
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$138.5-229k
Office located in Newark, NJ
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Requires a Juris Doctor (JD) or Master of Law (LLM) degree plus five (5) years of experience as an Attorney in media, intellectual property, or entertainment industry
- Experience may be gained concurrently and must include:
- Five (5) years in each of the following:
- Counseling on legal compliance issues or intellectual property matters
- Drafting and negotiating contracts
- Developing legal forms, processes, and policies
- One (1) year in each of the following:
- Pre-publication review of content to identify and analyze risk associated with First Amendment, defamation, or other potential third-party claims
- Conducting risk assessments of rights acquisition deals or production legal matters to analyze risks associated with copyright and trademark infringement, right of publicity and defamation claims, health and safety claims, or other potential claims that may arise in connection with a grant of rights or production
- Creative problem solving to address business and legal risks that may arise in connection with the acquisition, development, production, or distribution of original content
- Working on content acquisition, production, or distribution lifecycles
- Qualified applicants must have membership in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar
What the job involves
- Provide legal support on the acquisition, development, and production of audio content
- Job duties include structure, draft, and negotiate agreements for a wide variety of content distributed on Audible including podcasts, originals, and audiobooks, such as production service agreements, development agreements, license agreements, talent agreements, participant agreements, vendor agreements, location agreements, materials releases, music licenses, ancillary rights agreements, etc
- Provide analysis and advice on copyright, trademark, chain of title, defamation, rights of publicity and privacy, and music rights issues
- Provide strategic advice to cross-department stakeholders including creative, business affairs, production, marketing, PR, and finance
- Assist with the development of forms, processes, and policies
- Train junior attorneys and legal professionals in supporting various Audible stakeholders throughout the content acquisition, production, and distribution lifecycle
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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