Corporate Counsel, Global Trade Legal

Key job responsibilities

• Advises Amazon businesses on global trade regulations, with a focus on import compliance.
• Provides day-to-day trade guidance, tracks emerging regulatory trends, and helps shape Amazon's compliance policies and programs.
• Tackles complex, high-stakes global trade issues across current and future business models, offering strategic counsel to help expand selection to Amazon's global stores.
• Collaborates with engineers, program managers, and retail/logistics teams to support Amazon-branded products, technological innovations, and improved compliance processes.
• Import-related work includes tariff classification, country of origin, and customs valuation, as well as developing submissions to regulators and external stakeholders.
• Conducts legal research, risk analysis, drafts guidance documents and regulatory submissions, manages data review projects, and develops process improvements and automation.

Basic Qualifications

• Juris Doctor and membership in one state bar or equivalent
• 5+ years of post-bar admission legal experience
• Experience with customs, import, and export laws

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience of a mix of corporate law firm and in-house work
• Experience working proactively and independently, meeting deadlines, and delivering on projects and tasks
• Experience effectively managing a substantial and time-sensitive workload
• Experience handling ambiguous or undefined challenges through strong problem-solving abilities
• Experience with customs laws and regulations is preferred

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

USA, NY, New York - $169,300.00 - $229,000.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - $153,900.00 - $208,200.00 USD annually

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.