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 team's 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
1. Complete risk analyses using complex data sets (SQL, Python, R etc.).
2. Use high-level judgment to own our most complex risk mitigation and prevention initiatives.
3. Identify gaps and risks in Amazon's current mechanisms and policies and recommend solutions to product/policy owning teams.
4. Use data and/or technical skills to discover new ways to scale risk signals resulting in the identification of abuse risk.
5. Break problems into manageable pieces, meticulously prioritizing, and delivering results in an ambiguous and constantly changing environment.
6. Conduct large scale deep dives to derive insights about abuse, identifying gaps and risk in Amazon's current mechanisms, systems, and policies.
7. 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
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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience with SQL and Excel

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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 .

USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 129,800.00 USD annually