Principal Legal Counsel, Amazon
$238-272.5k
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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
$238-272.5k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Juris Doctor or foreign equivalent degree and ten years of experience as an M&A corporate transactions attorney or in a related occupation
- Must have three years of experience at a technology company
- Must have ten years of experience in the following skills: (1) working at a national or international law firm or technology company; (2) working in M&A and investments with familiarity with securities law and filings; and (3) completing a variety of transactions such as private and public company acquisitions, mergers, stock and asset purchases, cross-border transactions, and joint ventures
- License to practice law in the U.S. required
What the job involves
- Serve as lead on significant strategic transactions from pre-term sheet through due diligence and drafting/negotiations to post-closing, including coordinating any required regulatory filings with other legal teams and businesses
- Serve as primary legal support for corporate development or equivalent verticals. Manage and lead multiple simultaneous complex acquisitions, investments, and other strategic transactions with tight deadlines from pre term sheet through due diligence and drafting/negotiations to post closing
- Research and advise on transactional and general corporate matters and work effectively with internal clients and outside counsel. Provide holistic advice on structuring, regulatory, and other strategic considerations. Develop processes to create self- service or automated modules for certain aspects of transactions
- 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm
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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