Principal Legal Counsel, Amazon
$201.4-272.5k
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$201.4-272.5k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Must have five years of experience in the job offered or a related legal occupation at a national law firm, international law firm, or in-house at a major corporation
- Must have five years of experience in the following skill(s): (1) experience with technology transactions; (2) drafting and reviewing commercial contracts; (3) reviewing international laws and regulations and translating requirements to business teams; and (4) experience with intellectual property licensing
- License to practice law in the U.S. required
What the job involves
- 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm
- Counsel the Amazon devices business on a broad range of commercial, licensing, technology, and regulatory matters, as well as on structuring, drafting, and negotiating commercial transactions
- Provide day-to-day input on business, strategy, and technology development, advise on the launch of new products and features, resolve issues that arise in commercial relationships, and handle pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries
- Develop strategies for handling legal issues
- Build processes that address risk and allow the business flexibility and freedom to move quickly
- Provide ongoing legal counseling in a wide range of legal areas, including intellectual property, technology development, and structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex technology development, licensing, and other commercial agreements
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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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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