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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, supporting Amazon Music’s European business.

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

A day in the life

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:

Berlin, BE, DEU | Munich, BY, DEU

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years post-qualification legal experience
• Excellent English language skills including the ability to negotiate and draft contracts

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience in a national or international law firm, preferably with experience working in copyright/licensing, technology, or regulatory work.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills and the ability to act as business partner
• Ability to work in French or Spanish is a plus
• Ability to develop creative and pragmatic solutions to novel legal questions
• Good judgment in ambiguous and complex situations
• Ability to deliver results independently as well as collaboratively

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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