Corporate Counsel, Global Trade Legal

Amazon • Arlington, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Are you an international trade attorney looking for a new challenge in a fast-paced, innovative company? Come have fun and make history with Amazon's Global Trade Legal team. We are looking for a talented attorney to manage international trade legal work in support of our non-Retail and Operations businesses.

Requirements

• License to practice law in Europe, US or other common law jurisdiction
• 5+ years of legal experience
• Experience with export controls, customs law, and import operations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience of a mix of corporate law firm and in-house work
• Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks
• Experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround
• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem solving abilities
• Experience working effectively across cross-functional teams and partnering well with people at all levels within an organization

Responsibilities

• Counseling Amazon businesses on a broad range of regulatory and commercial matters, with a focus on global regulations governing imports and exports.
• Provide day-to-day advice on trade regulations, and advise on emerging regulatory and enforcement trends to help shape Amazon's trade compliance policies and programs.
• Work on complex and high-stakes global trade issue affecting current and future business models and technologies at Amazon.
• Provide counsel and strategic advice to your business client to grow and move selection to our global stores and customers.
• Work with engineers and program managers to support the development and deployment of Amazon-branded offerings and technological innovations, and partner with business, compliance, and logistics professionals to build and improve compliance policies, procedures and processes.
• Support export and import matters, including classification, export eligibility reviews, country of origin determinations, and customs valuation.
• Provide advice to internal stakeholders, as well as develop submissions to regulators and other external stakeholders.
• Perform legal research, risk analysis, drafting guidance documents, decision memos, regulatory submissions, and correspondence
• Managing internal data collection/review projects
• Develop and implement processes to simplify or automate recurring tasks, coordinating with compliance professionals, government relations specialists and other legal partners.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed