Description:
We are looking for a talented attorney to support Amazon Business, our rapidly growing, business-to-business store. Amazon Business is reshaping how businesses buy and sell supplies. We provide a procurement solution to more than 5 million businesses to help streamline their purchasing. Since launching in the U.S. in 2015, Amazon Business has expanded to eight additional countries and exceeded $40 billion in worldwide annualized sales.You will partner with leaders from Amazon Business' sales organization to negotiate deals with large, enterprise customers, develop solutions to meet the unique needs of business customers, drive improvements and simplifications to our sales processes, and help plan for AB's future growth.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Working directly with the business and developing strategies for handling legal issues in creative, efficient, and business-centric ways
- Serving as lead counsel on strategic deals and new product launches, while also providing day-to-day legal advice
- Handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries, and overseeing some aspects of regulatory compliance
- Developing approaches to address customer pain points
- Driving simplifications and improvements to our government contracting and compliance processes
- Working with Amazon's Public Policy team on legislative developments that impact our business.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
Basic Qualifications:
- 5+ years of legal experience as a transactional attorney
- Juris Doctor and membership in good standing in at least one state bar
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements
- Ability to demonstrate sound judgment even in ambiguous situations
- Ability to work independently while being able to contribute successfully to cross-functional teams
- Excellent organizational skills, ability to manage multiple projects at once, follow through and meet deadlines
- Strong written and oral communication skills
