Principal Legal Counsel - Regulatory & Litigation

Amazon Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Australia is seeking a Principal Legal Counsel for AU Stores Legal to lead regulatory and litigation matters with a focus on consumer regulator engagement. You will advise senior leadership, manage external firms, and ensure practical, risk-based legal solutions across fast-paced business needs.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of legal experience, a law degree with bar admission, and strong drafting, analytical, and communication skills to distill complex issues into actionable business

Qualifications

• 10+ years of legal experience in private practice or in-house.
• Law degree and admission to relevant bar association.
• Excellent legal drafting, analytical and project-management skills, with the ability to manage large volumes of data and documents.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, oral).
• Sound commercial judgment and the ability to distill complex legal issues into clear, actionable advice for business stakeholders.
• High degree of autonomy, discretion, and comfort operating in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
• Strong working knowledge of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) and the Australian Consumer Law.

Responsibilities

• Regulatory: Manage and respond to consumer regulator compulsory information-gathering notices, including scoping, data collection, privilege review and preparation of response letters and memos.
• Litigation & disputes: Assist in managing active litigation, including concise statements, defenses, discovery/preliminary discovery and without-prejudice correspondence. Support contractual, commercial and regulator initiated disputes. Instruct and manage external law firms, including scoping, budgeting and reviewing their work product.
• General: Draft, review, and negotiate correspondence, legal advice, and dispute-related documents to a high standard, as part of a fast paced organisation. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, including senior leadership, to deliver practical, risk-based advice.

Skills

Legal drafting

Analytical thinking

Project management

Regulatory affairs

Communication skills

Education

Law degree

Bar admission

Job description

Amazon Australia is seeking a Principal Legal Counsel for AU Stores Legal to lead regulatory and litigation matters with a focus on consumer regulator engagement. You will advise senior leadership, manage external firms, and ensure practical, risk-based legal solutions across fast-paced business needs.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of legal experience, a law degree with bar admission, and strong drafting, analytical, and communication skills to distill complex issues into actionable business