Description:

Description:
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 disputes. You'll handle novel legal issues arising from new technologies across a broad spectrum of litigation.

Key Job Responsibilities:

Design and implement litigation strategy with respect to specific cases
Select, manage, and improve the performance of outside counsel
Advise leadership on a wide range of novel legal and business risks and opportunities
Work with witnesses and data repositories to prepare for trial
Coordinate with public policy and public relations teams on matters relating to litigation
Design and implement innovative processes that enable small teams to make high-velocity decisions at scale
Provide daily cross-functional leadership to stakeholders on legal problems involving contract, business tort, consumer protection, real estate, transportation, advertising, privacy, security, class action, and First Amendment law

A day in the life:
You'll spend your days managing consumer and commercial litigation, advising internal clients on emerging legal issues, and working to build new mechanisms to minimize litigation risk.

About the Team:
We are a tight-knit team of litigators that cover a broad spectrum of litigation across all Amazon businesses. We routinely handle novel legal issues arising from new technologies.

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of post bar admission legal experience
Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
Experience building case strategies, identifying risks, and aligning legal tactics with business goals
Can distill complex legal issues into clear, concise business guidance
Knowledge of internet, software, and media industries and the legal and regulatory environment in which they operate or equivalent
Knowledge of the ethical considerations surrounding AI in the legal context, such as confidentiality, accuracy, and bias prevention

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience presenting legal issues to executive leadership
Experience as a primary strategist on complex litigation including independently developing case theory, making high-stakes judgment calls, and driving outcomes without close supervision
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 class-action defense litigation across multiple matters, including Rule 23 class certification