Risk Manager, SPI-Gaps

The Special Projects & Investigations team is looking for a motivated data savvy risk manager to act as a force multiplier supporting our teams mitigation and prevention of fraud and abuse. This position will manage a portfolio of Gap prevention projects aimed at making it harder for bad actors to operate on our stores as well as internal team mechanisms. You will interact with partner teams and stakeholders in operations product risk tech and science roles in order to execute against your projects. An ideal candidate is highly flexible a strong communicator and demonstrates significant bias for action and loves diving deep.

Key job responsibilities
Complete risk analyses using complex data sets (SQL Python R etc.). Use high-level judgment to own our most complex risk mitigation and prevention initiatives. Identify gaps and risks in Amazons current mechanisms and policies and recommend solutions to product/policy owning teams. Use data and/or technical skills to discover new ways to scale risk signals resulting in the identification of abuse risk. Break problems into manageable pieces meticulously prioritizing and delivering results in an ambiguous and constantly changing environment. Conduct large scale deep dives to derive insights about abuse identifying gaps and risk in Amazons current mechanisms systems and policies. Discover solutions and convey detailed technical knowledge (verbally in writing and via diagram) to engineering legal and program/product management teams

A day in the life
Deep dive gap root causes and learn the mechanics partner teams and requirements.

Propose and gain alignment on mitigation and prevention plan with partner team stakeholders.

Launch monitor and communicate with stakeholders about the progress of current mitigation and prevention.

Influence stakeholders to adopt integrate or fix gaps in order to allow sunsetting of existing mitigations.

Monitor reporting of established mechanisms and evaluate for effectiveness.

Inspect metrics and anecdotes to find false positives and false negatives then develop improvements to address misses.

Listen learn engage communicate execute analyze and influence.



About the team
The Trust & Store Integrity team (TSI) is responsible for creating a trustworthy shopping experience across Amazon stores worldwide by protecting customers brands selling partners and Amazon from fraud counterfeit and abuse as well as empowering providing worldclass support and building loyalty with Amazons millions of selling partners. The Special Projects and Investigations (SPI) team within TSI designs and implements policies tools and technology innovations to protect customers by identifying and preventing abuse worldwide. Our growth requires highly skilled candidates who move fast have an entrepreneurial spirit to create new solutions a tenacity to get things done and are capable of breaking down and solving complex problems. We value individual expression respect different opinions and work together to create a culture where each of us is able to contribute fully. Our unique backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve Amazons mission of being Earths most customer-centric company. Our team is comprised of experts in risk domains such as fraud cybersecurity data security insider risk regulatory compliance etc. with a strong dependence on data analysis and or technical skills. We complement specialized industry skills with broad risk experiences gathered through years of experience to deliver results. We make mistakes learn from them and support each other. Our work is to solve hard puzzles - typically with data and always with a lot persistence and curiosity. If you like the sound of that come join us.

- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- 5 years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Bachelors degree or equivalent - Experience handling confidential information - 5 years of relevant experience in risk analysis and/or regulatory compliance. - Highly proficient in data analysis (SQL or experience with multi-terabyte and petabyte relational databases) or scripting (i.e. Python R MATLAB). - High level of integrity and discretion to handle confidential information. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate security and business risk to a broad range of technical and non-technical audiences. - Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills using hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases. - Proven ability to deliver complex projects across multiple teams. - Excellent leadership negotiation teamwork and collaboration skills. - Strong critical thinker with the vision to work both tactically and strategically. - Experience implementing repeatable processes and automation or standardization. - Proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

- 5 years of compliance program management legal governance audit risk/loss prevention or equivalent experience
- Experience in stakeholder management dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes project management and schedules
- 3 years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience - Professional auditing qualification or similar risk or compliance credentials - Experience working in fast paced e-commerce organizations. - Experience working within fraud compliance law enforcement or intelligence organizations. - Experience in adjacent domain areas like network engineering Infosec software development for e-commerce or work involving software for APIs or web scraping. - Experience working with Threat Intelligence teams threat modeling and familiarity with open source intelligence (OSINT). - Masters degree in or practical experience with data science or machine learning. - Experience with AWS cloud solutions. - Experience in Data Sciences Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence. - CISSP Certification or experience in multiple CISSP knowledge areas - Demonstrated experience in areas such as digital forensics or internal investigations.

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