Risk Manager, Selling Partner Identity Verification (SPIV)

The Selling Partner Identity Verification (SPIV) 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
risk analyses using complex data sets (SQL Python R etc.).
high-level judgment to own our most complex risk mitigation and prevention initiatives.
gaps and risks in Amazons current mechanisms and policies and recommend solutions to product/policy owning teams.
data and/or technical skills to discover new ways to scale risk signals resulting in the identification of abuse risk.
problems into manageable pieces meticulously prioritizing and delivering results in an ambiguous and constantly changing environment.
large scale deep dives to derive insights about abuse identifying gaps and risk in Amazons current mechanisms systems and policies.
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
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.


- 5 years of compliance program management legal governance audit risk/loss prevention or equivalent experience
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- Experience with SQL and Excel

- 3 years of program or project management experience

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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 AZ Tempe - 74200.00 - 129800.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 82700.00 - 129800.00 USD annually