Address- License to practice law in Europe, US or other common law jurisdiction
- Experience in legal work
Amazon Music is part of Amazon Global Media and Entertainment, which also includes Prime Video, Amazon Studios, Audible, Games, and Twitch. Amazon Music 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
- Negotiating and drafting complex licensing, distribution, production, and other commercial agreements
- Providing strategic guidance on various regulatory matters (in particular on compliance with new laws), licensing and new industry developments
- Closely cooperating internationally with business and legal stakeholders across Amazon Global Media and Entertainment
- Some travel may be required
You will be the primary legal support for many Amazon Music business clients locally and internationally. You will directly advise our music and podcast streaming businesses on a broad range of entertainment and regulatory matters. 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, regulatory compliance and new business initiatives. You will be asked to develop innovative solutions to novel legal questions.
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.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
London, GBR
- Experience of a mix of corporate law firm and in-house work
- Knowledge of internet, software, and media industries and the legal and regulatory environment in which they operate or equivalent
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