Corporate Counsel (#2844635) (New York, New York)

Amazon’s legal department is looking for a smart, experienced, creative, and highly motivated litigator to help manage its commercial litigation. Responsibilities include: architecting and implementing litigation strategy with respect to product, auto, general, medical, and workers’ compensation liability cases; developing, implementing, and refining coordinating counsel structures to optimize the management of those types of disputes; selecting, managing, and improving the performance of outside counsel; working cross-functionally with Amazon’s Risk Management department to ensure the optimal management of individual cases; advising leadership on a wide range of legal and business risks and opportunities; working with witnesses and data repositories to prepare for trial; coordinating with public policy and public relations teams; designing and implementing innovative processes that enable small teams to make high velocity decisions at scale; and providing daily cross-functional leadership to stakeholders about a wide range of legal issues.