Devices & Services Trust Privacy and Accessibility (DSTPA) is responsible for maintaining and raising the trust bar for Amazon customers across a diverse set of 30 Devices and Services. We offer horizontal services for builders to ensure trust privacy and accessibility is built into our products and services. We also build customer-facing capabilities that provide customers with control and transparency while reducing trustbusting risks and enable partner teams to innovate with appropriate guardrails for content moderation privacy customer promises accessibility fairness and trust.
The DSTPA team is seeking a Technical Program Manager with privacy data protection risk management expertise and strong technical capabilities. This position requires detail-oriented risk event handling technical system understanding and high-judgment decision-making from event intake through incident containment or risk mitigation. You will work with builder engineering product legal PR Marketing and other teams to handle large scale often urgent escalated events create processes for incident containment and risk remediation investigate escalated events that are potentially high or critical risk and support post-mortem analysis. You will support continuous reporting testing and assurance campaign operations and metrics to inform stakeholders and management of key risk trends and patterns across D&S.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage escalated technical events and cases from start to finish; write detailed case notes technical reports summaries and recommendations for various audiences including leadership
- Execute trust and privacy compliance campaigns and initiatives with technical requirements ensuring timely remediation within established SLAs
- Monitor and maintain operational scorecards and metrics dashboards using SQL Python and data visualization tools performing trend analysis and identifying systemic issues
- Respond to and manage high-severity technical incidents conducting root cause analysis and coordinating cross-functional response efforts
- Conduct technical controls testing and validation activities to ensure compliance with policies standards and legal and regulatory requirements
- Perform closed loop validation on remediated risks and issues verifying corrective actions have been properly implemented through technical testing
- Create and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) technical runbooks and training materials for operational processes
- Identify opportunities to automate and simplify operational processes through scripting tooling and workflow automation to improve efficiency
- Partner with engineering teams to define technical requirements for privacy automation tools policy enforcement and incident response systems
- Track assessment validation and remediation actions ensuring teams prioritize and execute tasks in a timely fashion
- Understand system architectures data flows and technical dependencies to effectively assess privacy and trust risks
- Communicate technical remediation plans status and critical issues clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Support technical deep dive assessments and ad-hoc data analysis requests related to privacy and trust incidents and risks
A day in the life
Youll start your day reviewing open campaigns and triaging newly reported issues using SQL queries and automated dashboards. Throughout the day youll collaborate with engineering teams to validate technical requirements review system architectures update scorecards and respond to escalations. You will test technical controls conduct validation on remediated issues through code reviews or system testing or coordinate incident response efforts. Youll write scripts to automate repetitive tasks and analyze data to identify patterns. The role requires flexibility as priorities shift quickly balancing multiple technical workstreams while maintaining attention to detail and meeting SLA commitments.
About the team
Trust Fundamentals Operations (TrustFunOps) is a horizontal organization responsible for building technologies programs and services at Amazon scale that instill and grow customer trust create mechanisms to confidently attain existing and ever-evolving regulatory objectives and ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of our business partners and stakeholders to meet their obligations without disruption.
Our team values collaboration continuous learning and operational excellence. As a Technical Program Manager youll play an important role in driving technical best practices and contributing to team culture. TrustFunOps is dedicated to supporting new members with a broad mix of experience levels and tenures building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
- Bachelors degree in engineering computer science or equivalent
- 3 years of technical product or program management experience
- 2 years of software development experience
- 3 years of project management disciplines including scope schedule budget quality along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience building and evaluating system-level technical design
- 3 years of driving end to end delivery and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3 years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes project management and schedules
- Must be a good human
- Must work well with others and be a team player have high moral standards lead with integrity and empathy
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Hawthorne - 127100.00 - 172000.00 USD annually
USA CA San Francisco - 146200.00 - 197800.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 127100.00 - 172000.00 USD annually
USA WA Bellevue - 127100.00 - 172000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 127100.00 - 172000.00 USD annually