Contracts Manager Global Entertainment Legal

Amazon Music is looking for a talented Contracts Manager to join our dynamic Legal team to help support our growing music and entertainment businesses. Were looking for someone who can identify and implement process improvements enjoys working with different teams and loves the challenge of learning new subject matters and issues.

The successful candidate will possess the ability to work efficiently and collaboratively with peers team members and other stakeholders throughout the company; complete a high volume of tasks and projects quickly and with little guidance; prioritize urgent projects and issues effectively; take action without having perfect information; think creatively and work cross functionally to solve problems. One of the primary functions of this role will be to help scale music licensing by cross collaborating with all entertainment legal and business affairs teams and their external support groups to harmonize and track workflows forms and positions.

The candidate will also have great attention to detail while still meeting tight deadlines have great organizational skills and demonstrate the ability to be flexible as needed to achieve goals.




Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include reviewing drafting and negotiating a variety of thirdparty contractual relationships including music licenses and templates services agreements releases SOWs and licenses; utilizing internal processes to track transactions from beginning to end; troubleshooting processes and systems; coordinating with principal business partners; and advising on legal issues across our teams.

5 years of contracts management leading contract negotiations and redlining/drafting contracts within a law firm or legal department
Analyze track and consolidate music rights licenses templates and issues across Amazons entertainment divisions
Develop and maintain: contract templates company positions standard operating procedures for contracting processes and track associated metrics and other legal resources
Ability to invent simplify and improve legal and contracting processes impacting our legal team and the businesses we support


Inhouse contracts management experience
Music industry experience
Fluency in the MS Office Suite SharePoint and Adobe Acrobat preferred
Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with crossfunctional teams
Experience reviewing drafting and negotiating the legal terms of a broad range of standard contracts


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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $68400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $146300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.