Fraud & Abuse Analytics Lead

Amazon; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon’s Special Projects & Investigations team seeks an experienced industry specialist with risk, digital fraud, compliance or cyber investigations background and advanced data analysis skills to manage high-impact projects across Amazon's businesses.

You will employ SQL, Python and ML tools to uncover patterns, scale findings, and guide product and policy teams while partnering with stakeholders to prevent abuse.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 3+ years of relevant industry experience in risk or fraud investigations, Identity and Access Management, e-commerce, analytics, or security.
• Proficient with deriving insights from big data using SQL & experience manipulating/processing data with Python, and AI tools.
• Proven ability to deliver complex projects across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Complete risk analyses and manipulate data in complex data sets (SQL, Python, R etc.)
• Use high-level judgment to inform our most complex enforcement decisions
• Identify gaps and risks in Amazon's current mechanisms and policies and recommend solutions to product/policy owning teams.
• Use data and/or technical skills to discover new ways to scale deep dive signals resulting in the identification of many bad actors and sizing the issue
• Owning the complete life cycle of one or more complex problems - from identification through scaling the solutions
• Break problems into manageable pieces, ruthlessly prioritizing, and delivering results in an ambiguous environment
• Conduct large scale deep dives to derive insights about tactics used to conduct abuse on our stores, identifying gaps and risk in Amazon's current mechanisms, systems, and policies
• Write documents for partner teams and executives that identify problems, propose technical solutions, and drive alignment among stakeholders
• Own partnerships with stakeholder teams and guide appropriate trade-offs, clearly communicate goals, roles and responsibilities.
• Utilize agentic AI systems to automate workflows, scale pattern detection, and accelerate investigation and detection projects.

Skills

risk assessment

fraud investigations

SQL

Python

Machine Learning

Data Analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in Math/Statistics/CS

Tools

Amazon Redshift

AWS technologies

Job description

Amazon’s Special Projects & Investigations team seeks an experienced industry specialist with risk, digital fraud, compliance or cyber investigations background and advanced data analysis skills to manage high-impact projects across Amazon's businesses.

You will employ SQL, Python and ML tools to uncover patterns, scale findings, and guide product and policy teams while partnering with stakeholders to prevent abuse.