반드시 첨부된 ‘사내공모지원서 양식’을 작성 후 제출하여 주시기 바랍니다.
Please complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit.
반드시 쿠팡 이메일 계정으로 지원해 주시기 바랍니다.
Please make sure to apply with your Coupang e-mail address.
Company Introduction
We exist to wow our customers. We know we’re doing the right thing when we hear our customers say, “How did I ever live without Coupang?” Born out of an obsession to make shopping, eating, and living easier than ever, we are collectively disrupting the multi-billion-dollar commerce industry from the ground up and establishing an unparalleled reputation for being leading and reliable force in South Korean commerce.
We are proud to have the best of both worlds — a startup culture with the resources of a large global public company. This fuels us to continue our growth and launch new services at the speed we have been since our inception. We are all entrepreneurs surrounded by opportunities to drive new initiatives and innovations. At our core, we are bold and ambitious people that like to get our hands dirty and make a hands-on impact. At Coupang, you will see yourself, your colleagues, your team, and the company grow every day.
Our mission to build the future of commerce is real. We push the boundaries of what’s possible to solve problems and break traditional tradeoffs. Join Coupang now to create an epic experience in this always-on, high-tech, and hyper-connected world.
Role Overview
You will provide legal support across various international legal initiatives, including Coupang Intelligent Cloud, Coupang’s AI cloud computing service, in an extremely fast-paced, dynamic and constantly challenging environment. We are looking for passionate builders who can provide actionable legal advice under urgent deadlines and project manage various teams to implement creative solutions and achieve results.
What You Will Do
- Technology and commercial transactions: Lead and execute on a variety of country-specific, regional, and global technology and commercial transactions, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex technology and commercial contracts in English and Korean. You will be hands-on with end-to-end responsibility for legal support and will be required to work in partnership with our Procurement, Engineering, Security, Compliance and other teams.
- Advisory: You will be a legal problem solver, providing practical, business-oriented legal advice on a broad range of legal issues related to cloud services and AI development, including commercial, regulatory, and policy matters. You will lead and execute as an all-around legal strategy on both day-to-day and long-term legal goals, including support for product and services development, commercial arrangements, contracts, terms of use, privacy matters, intellectual property and licensing, open-source software, information security and the interpretation of contractual terms and rights and obligations.
- Third party legal risk management: Contribute to developing and implementing third-party legal risk management frameworks to set the standards for third party contracting with vendors across Coupang. This will include: (1) developing policies and procedures for minimum vendor contract standards and requirements, (2) setting legal risk assessment, review, and approval requirements for vendor contracts, (3) being a central point of contact to oversee and monitor compliance with the third-party legal risk management framework, and (4) building awareness across legal, corporate support, and business teams to improve contract standards and risk assessment and management of vendor relationships across Coupang.
- Collaboration: You will work closely with internal business leaders and Procurement, Engineering, Security, Privacy, and Compliance stakeholders located in Korea and the U.S. You will exemplify strong individual ownership and deft project management, with the ability to appropriately prioritize matters under strict deadlines and with minimal oversight.
Basic Qualifications
- Qualified lawyer in the U.S., Korea or common law jurisdiction (e.g., England, Australia, Singapore) with 6+ years post-qualification legal experience, both in-house and private practice.
- Experience negotiating commercial agreements across supply chain, enterprise hardware and software, data center and cloud services, professional services and other critical supplier relationships.
- Experience providing legal support for tech product development (AI/IT).
- Familiarity with AI and LLM-related legal and contracting issues, including data use and training restrictions, IP rights, and risk allocation.
- Demonstrable interest in diving deep to learn new technologies.
- Bilingual Korean/English language ability with full professional fluency in English.
- Strong and effective communication skills, both oral and written.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong interest in and ability to learn new technologies, especially in Tech and AI
- Engineering background preferred but not required
- Flexibility and strong prioritization skills in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments
- Strong team player mentality
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 veteran’s 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 candidate’s 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.
- This is a full-time regular position and includes 12 weeks of probation period; provided, however, the probationary period may be either skipped, shortened or extended if necessary for business purposes.
- This is a contract position and includes 12 weeks of probation period; provided, however, the probationary period may be either skipped, shortened or extended if necessary for business purposes.
Privacy Notice
- Your personal information will be collected and managed by Coupang as stated in the Application Privacy Notice located below.
https://privacy.coupang.com/en/land/jobs/
Document Return Policy
- This notification is given pursuant to Article 11 (6) of the Fair Hiring Procedure Act.
- 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.
- 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 It by email (recruitingops@coupang.com). In such case, within fourteen (14) days from the date of identifying the receipt of the request, the Company will send the hiring documents to the job applicant’s designated address via registered mail. Please be informed that the job applicant is required to pay the postage on the registered mail.
- In preparation for a job applicant’s 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.
- The above paragraphs 1 - 4 shall only apply when the labor-related laws of Korea govern the application. They are otherwise not applicable.
반드시 첨부된 ‘사내공모지원서 양식’을 작성 후 제출하여 주시기 바랍니다.
Please complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form and submit.
반드시 쿠팡 이메일 계정으로 지원해 주시기 바랍니다.
Please make sure to apply with your Coupang e-mail address.
