Corporate Counsel, Global Trade Legal

Amazon

Amazon

Legal

Arlington, VA, USA

Posted on May 12, 2026

Description

Are you an international trade attorney looking for a new challenge in a fast-paced, innovative company? Come have fun and make history with Amazon's Global Trade Legal team. We are looking for a talented attorney to manage international trade legal work in support of our non-Retail and Operations businesses.

Key job responsibilities
- Counseling Amazon businesses on a broad range of regulatory and commercial matters, with a focus on global regulations governing imports and exports.
- Provide day-to-day advice on trade regulations, and advise on emerging regulatory and enforcement trends to help shape Amazon's trade compliance policies and programs.
- Work on complex and high-stakes global trade issue affecting current and future business models and technologies at Amazon.
- Provide counsel and strategic advice to your business client to grow and move selection to our global stores and customers.
- Work with engineers and program managers to support the development and deployment of Amazon-branded offerings and technological innovations, and partner with business, compliance, and logistics professionals to build and improve compliance policies, procedures and processes.
- Support export and import matters, including classification, export eligibility reviews, country of origin determinations, and customs valuation.
- Provide advice to internal stakeholders, as well as develop submissions to regulators and other external stakeholders.
- Perform legal research, risk analysis, drafting guidance documents, decision memos, regulatory submissions, and correspondence
- Managing internal data collection/review projects
- Develop and implement processes to simplify or automate recurring tasks, coordinating with compliance professionals, government relations specialists and other legal partners.