Principal TPM - Privacy, Regulation Tech & Assurance

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 177,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager with a privacy governance background to drive the Hourglass program, identifying, assessing, and remediating privacy obligations across Amazon.

The role requires leading privacy programs, coordinating across stakeholders, and delivering executive-level reporting to reduce privacy and compliance risk while aligning with legal and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules.
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end strategy and execution of privacy obligations framework.
• Manage and be accountable for privacy programs to reduce privacy and compliance risk.
• Work across stakeholders to identify customer needs and solutions.
• Lead privacy compliance activities to meet legal, policy, and regulatory standards.
• Continuously prioritize risk for service teams, security teams, and leadership.
• Work with Principal Engineers to develop risk mitigation strategies.
• Communicate clearly with team members, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Integrate into enterprise risk management processes.
• Establish program mechanisms, KPIs, and executive reporting.

Skills

PM experience

Cross-functional leadership

Engineering collaboration

Risk management

Job description

Regulation Tech Assurance (RTA) is the team responsible for maintaining global regulatory compliance for all Amazon Stores, Devices, and Others to include payment and healthcare compliance. Additionally, RTA works to identify, analyze, and mitigate privacy risk identified through various compliance activities.

We are seeking an experienced, self-motivated Principal Technical Program Manager with a background in privacy governance who will help identify, analyze, and prioritize privacy risk identified through a variety of sources across Amazon. This work will help drive leadership prioritization and reduced privacy compliance risk. The Principal Technical Program Manager will drive the strategy and manage the Hourglass program, which focuses on identifying, assessing, and remediating privacy obligations across all of Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end strategy and execution of Amazon Privacy's identification, assessment, and remediation framework for privacy obligations.
• Manage and be accountable for privacy programs and/or projects to reduce privacy and compliance risk.
• Work across various stakeholders to identify and evaluate customer needs and solutions.
• Lead various privacy compliance activities in order for Amazon to achieve and maintain compliance with legal, policy, and regulatory standards.
• Continuously prioritize risk for service teams, security teams, and executive leadership.
• Work with Principal Engineers and others to develop technical risk mitigation strategies and approaches.
• Communicate clearly and effectively both in writing and verbally with team members, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Integrate into various enterprise risk management processes.
• Establish program mechanisms, KPIs, and executive reporting.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• 10+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands‑on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• 5+ years of HR, privacy, legal, compliance or risk 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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