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Job summary

Do you love entertainment, media, and technology? Are you looking for an exciting and creative challenge in an innovation-driven, talent-focused company? Come make history as a member of the Amazon Music’s legal team in Amazon’s world-class legal department.

Amazon Music is part of Amazon Global Media and Entertainment, and re-imagines music listening by enabling customers to unlock millions of songs and thousands of curated playlists and stations with their voice. Amazon Music also offers a wide selection of podcasts at no additional cost, as well as live streaming in partnership with Twitch. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights.

Amazon Global Media and Entertainment delivers award-winning movies, TV shows, music, games, audiobooks, and podcasts to customers around the world. When you join the Amazon Entertainment team, you are uniquely situated to create a future of entertainment where creative content, innovation, and commerce come together. We are building a home for talent that will nurture creativity, storytelling, and innovation unlike anywhere else.

Key job responsibilities

Structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex distribution, development, licensing, production, marketing, and other commercial agreements; and providing ongoing legal counsel across a range of fields, including privacy and regulatory compliance, intellectual property, and digital media.

Some travel may be required.

A day in the life

You will serve as primary legal support for the Amazon Music business. Our work is intellectually challenging, exciting and fast-paced. Developing innovative solutions to novel legal questions is part of our daily business. Like everyone at Amazon, we are passionate about our customers. You will directly advise our music streaming business on a broad range of entertainment matters. Next to working on new initiatives, you will work as the lead lawyer on strategic projects, providing day-to-day advice to the business in a wide range of legal areas, notably content licensing, marketing, and privacy and regulatory compliance. You will directly work with the business to take the lead in structuring, drafting and negotiating licenses and commercial agreements with external partners.

About the team

We pride ourselves in facilitating progress and delivering results. We see the big picture, and we obsess over customers. We run to the problem, never away from it. We like to build things and solve problems. We enjoy the camaraderie of working together as a legal team, and with our brilliant and creative business partners. We operate with the highest level of integrity and value character as much as intelligence.

Amazon Music Legal is part of the Amazon Entertainment Legal group, which also includes Amazon Video, Amazon Studios, Audible, Games, and Twitch.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

J.D. degree from an accredited law school and active membership in one state bar
2+ years experience practicing law as a transactional attorney, preferably with some of that time spent working in IP, technology, or entertainment transactions

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

2+ years of experience in a national or international law firm
Experience structuring, drafting, negotiating, and closing a broad range of commercial contracts
Incisive business as well as legal instincts
Sound judgment in ambiguous situations
Prowess in delivering results independently, as well as collaboratively
Passion to embrace challenges and aggressively drive meaningful solutions, including amid complexity and uncertainty
Excellent organizational skills, ability to manage multiple projects at once, and commitment to follow through and meet deadlines
Sharp analytical and communication skills

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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