Associate Corporate Counsel, Prime Video Sports

Description

Do you love sports, entertainment, media, and technology? Are you looking for an exciting new challenge within an innovation-driven company? Come work hard, have fun, and make history as a member of the Prime Video Legal team in Amazon’s world-class legal department.

Prime Video is part of Amazon’s Global Entertainment Legal group, delivering award-winning sports content, movies, TV shows, music, games, audio books, podcasts, and streaming entertainment to customers around the world. As a member of the Prime Video Legal team, you will have a unique opportunity to create the future of sports and entertainment. We are building an unmatched global streaming service, and creating a home for talent that will nurture creativity, storytelling, and innovation unlike anywhere else.

• Structuring, drafting, and negotiating licensing, production, marketing, and other commercial agreements

• Helping launch new sports properties and reinvent the ways that customers consume sports content

• Providing ongoing legal counsel across a range of fields, including intellectual property, digital media, and regulatory compliance

• Some travel may be required

Prime Video delights customers around the world by delivering must-see sporting events, movies, TV shows, all within a seamless streaming experience. You will provide legal support for various teams within the Prime Video business. You will be a legal and thought partner for the business on day-to-day matters as well as long-term strategic imperatives. Working directly with business colleagues, you will serve as lead counsel in drafting, negotiating, and closing commercial agreements with sports rights holders, production vendors, device manufacturers, and other important business partners;

and you will work together with other members of the Prime Video Legal team to deliver results across a range of challenging and ambitious projects. Our lawyers solve a constant flow of novel challenges in a growing and exciting business. You will research, advise, and develop expertise on new product initiatives and regulatory matters that impact your business.

We pride ourselves in accelerating progress and delivering results. We see the big picture, and we obsess over customers. We run to the problem, not away from it. We like to build things and solve problems. We enjoy the camaraderie of working as a team, and with our brilliant and creative business partners. We operate with the highest level of integrity and value character as much as intelligence.

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

• 2+ years of legal experience

• Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent

• Experience in transactional, licensing, or other commercial legal work

• Experience in the sports industry

• Experience with a top corporate law firm and/or top in-house position

• Knowledge of internet, software, and media industries and the legal and regulatory environment in which they operate or equivalent

• Enthusiasm for sports, entertainment, and technology, evidenced by fluidity and familiarity with current industry trends and practices

• Significant experience structuring, drafting, negotiating and closing a broad range of commercial contracts

• Comfort making difficult judgments 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

• Exceptional analytical and communication skills

• Creativity, self-awareness, and a sense of humor

• Expertise in media and entertainment, coupled with an ability to remain nimble, learn, be curious, and adapt to a changing world

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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