Job Description
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, audiobooks, 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.
Key job responsibilities
• 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
A day in the life
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 rightsholders, 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.
About the team
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of legal experience
- Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
- Experience in transactional, licensing, or other commercial legal work
Job Tags
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