Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the extreme. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Risk Manager, with a strong background in Amazon Web Services (AWS), database design, and data infrastructure and management concepts, to join our team. In this role, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with a variety of cross-functional teams. You will be responsible for designing a regulatory compliance data lake which is a high visibility programs associated with the end-to-end vision of how Amazon confirms product compliance on behalf of our Selling Partners. Your primary focus will be to own strategic programs and interactions with functional leaders in the team.

You will spend time with these stakeholders to better understand their needs and how to scale existing processes to accelerate inventing on behalf of our customers. This high visibility role will impact the success of the business launch and how our customers experience this new product. The position requires strong cross-functional planning, problem solving, and communication skills. A track record of delivering results in a fast paced, dynamic environment is a must. Being self-driven, adaptable and able to manage multiple priorities is a key to success.




Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will:
• Set up Amazon AWS S3 storage buckets to house regulatory data and manage user permissions and security setup;
• Work collaboratively with Product, Engineering, Science, to build frameworks for setting up application programming interfaces (API) to automate ingestion of compliance data
• Work collaboratively with Product, Engineering, Science, Quality, UX, and more to execute and deliver the product strategy, vision, and roadmap;
• Work closely with all stakeholders to optimize the launch plan for a new product;
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, and QA to evaluate the performance and quality of existing requirements and surface opportunities for improvements;
• Have an intuitive understanding of optimal versus sub-optimal customer experiences, with ability to quickly identify solutions to improve/fix;
• Look for synergies between teams in the organization and make recommendations on how to implement new ideas, mechanisms, and scale existing ones;
• Liaise with all teams to ensure relevant areas are engaged in time to develop deliverables within their area to support project deliverables;
• Support partner teams to refine processes and increase efficiency in line with program objectives.
• Track delivery against program objectives.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA