Amazon

Corporate Counsel - Payments

Posted On

Jan. 21, 2025

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Legal

Apply By

Sept. 9, 2025

Job Description

Experience in payment aggregation, bill payments, pre-paid instruments, cross broader transactions, lending and privacy.

Amazon Pay is looking for a talented attorney to support our rapidly growing and evolving payments businesses. You will serve as the lawyer responsible for counseling the business on a broad range of payment and regulatory matters with particular focus on payment aggregation business, consumer lending solutions, co-branded credit card programs and merchant services. In addition, you will be involved in handling privacy related work for the Amazon group in India.
You will also work with business and tech partners to structure complex transactions, ensuring adherence to legal and regulatory compliances and also offer advisory on information security related aspects. You will also work with business teams to explore and evaluate new business opportunities in the payments space, to help the teams understand the regulatory compliances and to facilitate launch of any new products/ services. Principal duties will include providing day-to-day advice, resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, drafting and negotiating complicated payment, cobrand and other commercial agreements, and providing ongoing legal counseling on a wide range of legal areas including payment aggregation business. The duties will also include engagement with bank and network partners, manage customer disputes and assist in responding to regulatory complaints.
You will be responsible for regulatory engagement and to work with industry bodies to drive policy change initiatives, and to represent Amazon Pay in regulatory forums; you will work closely with various teams including the public policy team for such matters. You will also be responsible to monitor and publish regulatory changes, and work with various internal teams to drive compliance.

A successful candidate should have a strong transactional background and be hard working, proactive, entrepreneurial, and able to apply sound, pragmatic judgment in ambiguous situations. In-house experience at a technology or financial service company is a plus.
Throughout all the above tasks the Attorney will closely coordinate with the global legal teams and outside counsel.
- L.L.B. (undergraduate law degree) from a recognized university in India.
- A minimum of 8+ years of legal experience in financial sector (with several years of experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house.

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