Associate Corporate Counsel, Amazon
The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for candidates who are customer-obsessed, enjoy being challenged, work independently while being team players, and deliver pragmatic and practical advice in ambiguous situations
- German, UK, French, Italian, or Spanish qualified lawyer
- Training and 2+ years’ post-qualification experience with an international law firm or highly regarded in-house team
- Business fluency in written and spoken English and German
Desirable
- Experience supporting a digital media or content business as a member of, or on secondment to, an in-house team, including advising on consumer and marketing law matters
- Superior drafting, negotiation, organizational, analytical and communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills, ability to manage multiple projects at once, follow through, and meet deadlines
- Ability to work independently while also contributing successfully to cross-functional teams
- Proficiency in an additional European language (in particular French, Spanish, Italian)
What the job involves
- As Associate Corporate Counsel you will be a key member of Audible’s European and wider global legal teams
- You will have a broad remit including business development, marketing, product, and regulatory counsel, and more
- You will work on a variety of complicated and sophisticated transactions
- And will provide strategic and legal advice across a wide range of issues
- Structure, draft, negotiate, and review a variety of complex commercial agreements
- Provide legal counsel on product and service initiatives and launches
- Lead Audible’s response to regulatory developments impacting our European operations, also in close alignment with colleagues from the global Audible legal as well as other Amazon legal teams
- Maintain and develop standard contract forms, policies and processes
- Instruct and manage external counsel
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
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