Description:

Description:
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.

Key Job 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.

Basic Qualifications:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

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