Amazon’s legal department is looking for a smart, experienced, creative, and highly motivated litigator with deft judgment and experience litigating a broad range of patent and other intellectual property issues to help manage the company’s worldwide portfolio of IP disputes and to advise the company on a wide range of issues relating to IP risk and protection. The ideal candidate will be comfortable rapidly learning new technology and business areas implicated by Amazon’s unusually diverse IP litigation portfolio.
Responsibilities will include helping architect and implement Amazon’s IP litigation strategy, including identifying opportunities to make new law; selecting, managing, and improving the performance of outside counsel; identifying and preparing Amazon witnesses; working closely with a talented team of hard-working paralegals and other assistants; coordinating with Amazon’s public policy and public relations teams on matters relating to IP; and providing daily cross-functional leadership and counseling to Amazon stakeholders on a broad range of IP issues.