Senior Corporate Counsel
Amazon
Senior Corporate Counsel
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
Amazon is seeking a business-minded Corporate Counsel to join our Legal team in Brazil. This role will provide legal support to Amazon's Retail, Marketing, and Prime businesses, serving as a trusted advisor to business leaders on a wide range of matters. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment, is comfortable navigating ambiguity, and can independently drive legal strategy across multiple business lines.
Key job responsibilities
- Commercial Transactions: Structure, draft, negotiate, and close a wide variety of commercial agreements, including vendor agreements, marketing and advertising contracts, sponsorship deals, licensing arrangements, co-marketing partnerships, and Prime-related service agreements.
- Strategic Counsel: Serve as the primary legal advisor to Retail, Marketing, and Prime business teams in Brazil, providing proactive, practical, and business-oriented legal guidance.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with business, finance, tax, public policy, and other teams..
- Regulatory Navigation: Advise on applicable Brazil regulatory frameworks.
- Risk Management & Ambiguity: Identify, assess, and manage legal risks in novel and ambiguous situations where precedent may not exist — developing creative, scalable solutions to help the business to move forward.
- Playbook & Scalability: Develop and maintain legal playbooks, templates, and self-service tools that enable business teams to operate at speed while managing legal risk.
- Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with senior business leaders, earning trust through sound judgment, responsiveness, and the ability to simplify complex legal issues.
- 10+ years of legal experience
- Speak, write, and read fluently in English
- 3+ years of drafting and negotiating the legal terms in a broad range of standard commercial contracts experience
- Law degree (LL.B.) from an accredited Brazilian institution; active registration with the OAB.
- Strong knowledge of Brazilian commercial law, consumer protection, advertising regulation, and e-commerce frameworks.
- Can distill complex legal issues into clear, concise business guidance
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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
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