Contracts Manager, Amazon
Global Entertainment Legal
$68.4-146.3k
Office located in Culver City, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Open for applications
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$68.4-146.3k
Office located in Culver City, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will possess the ability to work efficiently and collaboratively with peers, team members and other stakeholders throughout the company; complete a high volume of tasks and projects quickly and with little guidance; prioritize urgent projects and issues effectively; take action without having perfect information; think creatively and work cross functionally to solve problems
- The candidate will also have great attention to detail while still meeting tight deadlines, have great organizational skills and demonstrate the ability to be flexible as needed to achieve goals
- 5+ years of contracts management, leading contract negotiations and redlining/drafting contracts within a law firm or legal department
- Analyze, track and consolidate music rights, licenses, templates and issues across Amazon’s entertainment divisions
- Develop and maintain: contract templates, company positions, standard operating procedures for contracting processes and track associated metrics, and other legal resources
- Ability to invent, simplify and improve legal and contracting processes impacting our legal team and the businesses we support
Desirable
- In-house contracts management experience
- Music industry experience
- Fluency in the MS Office Suite, SharePoint, and Adobe Acrobat preferred
- Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Experience reviewing, drafting and negotiating the legal terms of a broad range of standard contracts
What the job involves
- Amazon Music is looking for a talented Contracts Manager to join our dynamic Legal team to help support our growing music and entertainment businesses
- We're looking for someone who can identify and implement process improvements, enjoys working with different teams, and loves the challenge of learning new subject matters and issues
- One of the primary functions of this role will be to help scale music licensing by cross collaborating with all entertainment legal and business affairs teams and their external support groups to harmonize and track workflows, forms, and positions
- Your responsibilities will include reviewing, drafting and negotiating a variety of third-party contractual relationships, including music licenses and templates, services agreements, releases, SOWs and licenses; utilizing internal processes to track transactions from beginning to end; troubleshooting processes and systems; coordinating with principal business partners; and advising on legal issues across our teams
Application process
- This position will remain posted until filled
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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