Principal, Legal Counsel (IP Legal)

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To apply, please complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit it via your Coupang email address.

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Team Description :

IP Legal team at Coupang carries out business consulting to provide practical solutions that minimize IP-related risks associated with initiatives planned by businesses across the company and to Wow both the customer and businesses. The team also undertakes tasks such as copyright matters, brand protection, licensing, managing and strengthening portfolios, responding to disputes and handling rights enforcement, and general contract review from an IP perspective.

What are the 4 things you need this person to do?

1. Render advice on all copyright matters, including retail, open-source licensing, image compliance, brand protection matters relating to copyright
2. Provide business guidance by way of creating and deploying guidance and guidelines to assist business to move with urgency
3. Have a broad knowledge of handling copyright matters in Korea and abroad, including music licensing, advertising, AI, cloudetc
4. Proactively identify gaps and areas of compliance and help with quick remediation.

Essential Qualifications:

• Domestic or foreign (bilingual) lawyers/patent attorneys with IP experience in Korea

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience after obtaining attorney-at-law/patent attorney license, with at least 3 years experience in copyright matters.

• Ability to balance between swift response and diving deep

• Ability to provide business-friendly and practical solutions

• Ability to grasp and seamlessly adapt to diverse and fast changes in business or organizational settings

• Strong and effective communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-house experience preferred
• Commerce field experience preferred

Recruitment Process and Others

Recruitment Process

• Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview Offer
• The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
• Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
• Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veterans benefits, the disabled, etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.
• Job titles and responsibilities may be subject to change depending on the candidates overall experience, etc. This will be communicated to the candidate at the appropriate time before the offer.
• Hiring may be restricted in case the legal qualifications required for hiring and work performance is not met.

Privacy Notice

• Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below.

Document Return Policy

1. This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.
2. A job applicant, who has applied but not been finally selected for a position at Coupang (the Company), may request the Company to return his/her hiring documents submitted pursuant to the Fair Hiring Procedure Act. However, this will not apply where the hiring documents were submitted via the website of the Company or e-mail, or where the job applicant submitted those documents voluntarily without a request from the Company. In addition, if the hiring documents were destroyed due to a natural disaster or any other reasons not attributable to the Company, such documents will be deemed to have been returned to the job applicant.
3. A job applicant who wishes to request the return of his/her hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above should fill out a Request for Return of Hiring Documents [Annex Form No. 3 in the Enforcement Rule of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act] and submit Itby email (recruitingops@coupang.com). In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the dateof identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicants designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail.
4. In preparation for a job applicants request for the return of hiring documents pursuant to the main sentence of paragraph 2 above, the Company shall retain the original hiring documents submitted by the job applicant for 180 days from the completion of the recruiting process. If no request is made until the end of this period, all his/her hiring documents will be destroyed immediately in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.
5. The above paragraphs 1 - 4 shall only apply when the labor-related laws of Korea govern the application. They are otherwise not applicable.

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Please complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit.

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Please make sure to apply with your Coupang e-mail address.