Senior Legal Counsel

Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door.

We have recently launched our services in Taiwan including Rocket Delivery which offers next-day delivery for a wide selection of items at affordable prices and Rocket Overseas which offers free international delivery on millions of best-selling products from Korea, the U.S., and beyond.

We are looking for strong talent to help us lead Coupang’s expansion in Taiwan. This is an exceptional opportunity to become a part of Coupang’s growth in Taiwan and create a world where our customers wonder, “How did we ever live without Coupang?”

The Role: 

Coupang Taiwan is looking for a smart, customer obsessed, driven and creative Senior Legal Counsel to support Coupang e-commerce and fulfillment service. The Senior Legal Counsel will be responsible to utilize legal counsel experience and education in human resources, labor relations, and to draft, review, and negotiate commercial and HR related agreements, and stay updated on relevant laws in Human Resources, fulfillment and e-commerce The candidate will also proactively respond to the business team and will interact daily with different stakeholders, supporting them in a very agile way. 

As the Legal Counsel for Taiwan, you will be responsible for developing and implementing Coupang Taiwan’s legal strategy. This includes providing legal advice across all areas of our business, including ecommerce, fulfilment centers, transportation/logistics, HR, inventory supply, and general corporate governance.

What will you do?

• Lead and execute on a variety of legal matters across Coupang Taiwan’s business operations, including e-commerce, property, HR, operations, product compliance, and corporate compliance. You will be hands on with end-to-end responsibility for all legal support.
• Advise, draft, and negotiate a wide range of contracts with third parties including inventory suppliers, HR agencies, fulfilment center leases, and marketing partners.
• Lead and execute on all corporate governance matters pertaining to Coupang Taiwan including management of business license filings.
• Manage litigation and investigations that may arise in Taiwan.
• Represent Coupang in connection with any inquiries by regulators in Taiwan.
• Manage and instruct external law firms as required.
• Understand the e-commerce and fulfillment services business and related legal requirements.
• Serve as a legal resource to senior management team on human resource issues and initiatives.
• Provide creative legal advice to the business promptly, reviewing lawsuits and legal affairs across all the company. 
• Oversee and manage relationship with external authorities and agencies such as Ministry of Labor regarding the company’s legal matters. 
• Coordinate and cooperate with the legal and compliance organizations across all Coupang entities in maintaining and updating legally complying company policies and procedures
• Forecast legal risks and make plans to anticipate and prevent them. 
• Be Agile leader in taking actions against legal challenges the company is facing in coordination with external and internal legal teams.
• Provide creative legal advice to the business promptly, reviewing lawsuits and legal affairs across all the company.   
• Work closely and collaboratively with internal business partners including Global Procurement, Finance, Corporate IT, and Security and Privacy on projects and company-wide initiatives. Demonstrate hands on experience but also the ability to handle and manage projects with other members of the team.

Essential Qualifications:

• Qualified lawyer in Taiwan or foreign qualified lawyer with extensive experience working in TW.
• At least 10+ years of post-qualification legal experience. A mixture of law firm and in-house experience is preferred.
• Fluency in Mandarin and working level English proficiency
• Exceptional ability to consistently deliver creative, thoughtful and business-oriented results that appropriately balance growth and risk in a fast-paced and high-pressure environment.
• A willingness to learn voraciously and take on new scope and challenges.
• Ability to adapt easily to rapid and diverse business changes.
• Sound judgement in developing and implementing legal solutions.

Preferred Skills:

• Ability to prioritize work in a complex, fast-paced environment. 
• Ability to work with ambiguous problems
• Excellent stakeholder management experience. 
• Strong communication skills - speaking, writing, presenting and negotiating. 
• Capability to work through relevant government authorities on immediate legal issues the company is facing through existing networks or being able to quickly establish working network. 
• Fulfillment services, logistics and e-commerce business experience. 
• Labor and employment legal experience. 

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.

Things 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.
• Coupang does not discriminate against disabled applicants or those with veteran status. We are proud to offer equal opportunities for all applicants.

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