Corporate Counsel, Litigation , Enterprise Risk

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Amazon’s legal department is looking for a smart, experienced, creative and highly motivated litigator to help manage Amazon’s worldwide portfolio of commercial litigation. Responsibilities include architecting and implementing Amazon’s litigation strategy with respect to specific cases; selecting, managing, and improving the performance of outside counsel; advising Amazon leadership on a wide range of novel legal and business risks and opportunities; working with Amazon witnesses and data repositories to prepare for trial; coordinating with Amazon public policy and public relations teams on matters relating to litigation; designing and implementing innovative processes that enable small teams to make high velocity decisions at scale; and providing daily cross-functional leadership to disparate Amazon stakeholders about a range of legal problems involving such areas as contract, business tort, consumer protection, stockholder, real estate, transportation, advertising, privacy, class action, and First Amendment law.

Requirements

• 5+ years of legal experience
• Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
• Knowledge of internet, software, and media industries and the legal and regulatory environment in which they operate or equivalent
• Experience in complex domestic and international business litigation, including trial experience and counseling parties and witnesses in pre-dispute and dispute resolution or equivalent context
• Experience handling complex consumer class actions.
• Experience in securities litigation, derivative litigation, and other stockholder disputes
• A mix of corporate law firm and in-house legal experience
• Experience in privacy law

Responsibilities

• Architecting and implementing Amazon’s litigation strategy with respect to specific cases
• Selecting, managing, and improving the performance of outside counsel
• Advising Amazon leadership on a wide range of novel legal and business risks and opportunities
• Working with Amazon witnesses and data repositories to prepare for trial
• Coordinating with Amazon public policy and public relations teams on matters relating to litigation
• Designing and implementing innovative processes that enable small teams to make high velocity decisions at scale
• Providing daily cross-functional leadership to disparate Amazon stakeholders about a range of legal problems involving such areas as contract, business tort, consumer protection, stockholder, real estate, transportation, advertising, privacy, class action, and First Amendment law.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree