Associate Corporate Counsel, Prime Video
Posted 3 hours 58 minutes ago by Amazon
Job ID: Amazon UK Services Ltd.
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 Entertainment legal team in Amazon's world-class legal department.
Amazon 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 and other commercial agreements
- Advise business across a range of fields, including intellectual property, new product initiatives, marketing and regulatory compliance
You will be based in our London office and support various teams within the Prime Video business. Prime Video delights our customers around the world by delivering must-see movies, series and premium sports within a seamless streaming experience.
You will be a legal and thought partner for the business on day-to-day matters as well as long-term strategic issues. You will own drafting, negotiating, and closing commercial agreements with channel providers, production companies and studios, as well as device manufacturers and other important business partners.
You will pioneer AI-driven transformation of legal operations-improving contract review cycles, eliminating manual bottlenecks, and deploying advanced research tools that deliver insights in minutes instead of hours. Your innovations will multiply our legal function's impact, enabling faster decisions, consistency, and proactive risk mitigation that keeps us ahead of emerging challenges. Our lawyers get to solve a constant flow of novel challenges in a growing and exciting business.
Working directly with business colleagues, you will serve as lead counsel in strategic content acquisition deals and help manage existing commercial relationships. You will also research, advise, and develop expertise on new product initiatives and regulatory matters that impact your business. Our lawyers value working alongside and in person with their business clients and local legal teams to solve a constant flow of novel challenges in a growing and exciting business.
About the teamWe 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.
Prime Video Legal is part of the Amazon Entertainment Legal group, which also includes Amazon Studios, Amazon Music, Audible, Games, and Twitch.
Basic Qualifications- Experience in transactional work, including drafting and negotiating commercial contracts or equivalent
- Minimum 3+ years' post-qualification legal experience
- Qualified lawyer with outstanding academic and legal qualifications
- Experience of a mix of corporate law firm and in-house work
- Experience in web services/cloud computing, software licensing, telecommunications or equivalent
- Ability to work with existing AI tools as well as curiosity and willingness to experiment with AI to build and implement new processes to simplify and improve legal processes.
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