Senior Program Manager, Intellectual Property Protection

Are you passionate about leveraging machine learning to protect Amazons marketplace at scale Were seeking a Senior Program Manager who will drive our brand protection detection systems through systematic problem-solving and technical this role youll own the end-to-end program lifecycle for ML-powered detection systems going 2-3 levels deeper than surface analysis to identify root causes and build solutions that eliminate entire classes of false positives. Youll work directly with applied scientists and engineering teams to translate complex abuse patterns into engineering-ready specifications that scale to hundreds of millions of product listings globally.

This position sits at the heart of Amazons brand protection systems where your decisions directly determine whether hundreds of millions of product listings are correctly identified as legitimate or infringing. Youll partner with applied scientists on ML model performance manage golden dataset refresh cycles optimize image enrollment processes and conduct root cause analysis on false positive drivers. Your strategic impact will be felt across marketplaces regions and languages as you balance precision and recall at unprecedented scale.

Key job responsibilities
- Partner with applied scientists to evaluate machine learning model performance for brand protection detection systems making high-judgment decisions that directly impact detection accuracy across billions of listings WW.
- Manage high-quality training dataset refresh cycles and text workstream pattern identification across multiple marketplaces and languages to ensure detection models have high-quality training data.
- Conduct comprehensive root cause analysis on false positive drivers going 2-3 levels deeper than surface analysis to identify systematic improvements for detection systems.
- Translate findings into detailed engineering-ready specifications with clear measurable success criteria that enable engineering teams to build to specification.
- Present strategic recommendations to Directors and VPs on detection system enhancements establishing metrics and driving alignment across stakeholders.

A day in the life
Your day begins by reviewing overnight detection metrics across marketplaces to identify any emerging patterns requiring attention. Youll meet with applied scientists to evaluate a new model iteration making judgment calls on its precision/recall balance before implementation. After you might spend time analyzing text patterns across multiple languages to identify new detection opportunities or coordinate with engineering on implementing your latest false positive reduction blueprint. Youll wrap up by presenting findings from your latest root cause analysis to leadership highlighting systematic improvements that could eliminate thousands of false positives while maintaining strong brand protection.

About the team
The brand protection program team serves as Amazons systemic problem-solving engine providing vertical product-program support across discovery detection and remediation systems.

Product and engineering teams explicitly prefer working with our team because we deliver detailed blueprints instead of vague problems enabling engineering to build to specification and validate against clear success criteria.

- 6 years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

- Masters degree or MBA in business operations human resources adult education organizational development instructional design or related field
- Experience with large-scale ML systems model performance evaluation or data-driven program strategy
- Deep understanding of brand protection fraud detection abuse prevention or trust and safety technologies
- Experience in project management methodologies business analysis or process improvement

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN BC Vancouver - 84400.00 - 141000.00 CAD annually