Corporate Counsel, WW Ops Legal
Amazon · Tokyo, Japan · Legal
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Legal Counsel based in Tokyo, Japan. The posting calls out experience with Compliance and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a master's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Legal Counsel
- Function
- legal
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Work mode
- On-site
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Master's degree
- Department
- Legal
- Posted
- Mar 9, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAmazon Japan Legal is looking for an experienced, smart, and motivated attorney to support our rapidly growing operations and logistics businesses in Japan. The position reports to the operation and logistics legal lead in Japan. Operation Legal team supports Amazon’s global logistics and transportation business that fulfills orders and delivers packages to customers. We advise on the infrastructure, warehouse operations, and technology that make deliveries happen; from placing inventory as close to customers as possible to reduce delivery times, to transporting items into and out of warehouses, to delivering packages to the customer’s doorstep. Operations Legal plays a key role in the innovation and technology that make Amazon’s products and services best in class. The position will be responsible for supporting Amazon’s rapidly growing operations and logistics business in Japan, including new and innovative businesses and services. You will serve as the primary lawyer responsible for counseling the business on a broad range of commercial, regulatory and compliance matters for all operations and logistics matters in Japan. You will work directly with the business, serving as a counsel on compliance challenges arising from the rapidly evolving regulatory environment; advising on strategic deals and on the launch of new products and…