Privacy Specialist, Trust Fundamentals

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Privacy Specialist to enhance customer trust across a diverse range of devices and services. This role involves developing and maintaining privacy policies, ensuring compliance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will be adept at translating complex privacy requirements into clear guidelines and will thrive in a fast-paced environment. Join a team dedicated to fostering a culture of mentorship and knowledge sharing, where your contributions will have a significant impact on customer privacy and trust.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of privacy compliance experience required.
• Ability to translate complex requirements into clear language.

Responsibilities

• Draft and update privacy policies and standards.
• Monitor privacy regulations and update requirements as needed.

Skills

Privacy Compliance

Policy Development

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Juris Doctor or Master's Degree

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Description

Devices & Services Trust, Privacy & Accessibility (TPA) is responsible for maintaining and raising the trust bar for Amazon customers across a diverse set of 30+ devices and services. TPA offers 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 and reduce privacy risk, while enabling partner teams to innovate with appropriate guardrails for content moderation, privacy, accessibility, and trust.

Description

Devices & Services Trust, Privacy & Accessibility (TPA) is responsible for maintaining and raising the trust bar for Amazon customers across a diverse set of 30+ devices and services. TPA offers 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 and reduce privacy risk, while enabling partner teams to innovate with appropriate guardrails for content moderation, privacy, accessibility, and trust.

TPA is seeking a Privacy Specialist responsible for developing, maintaining, communicating, and assessing adherence to customer privacy promises and internal privacy policies and standards for the Devices & Services business. The ideal candidate should feel excited and empowered to solve complex problems to protect customer privacy, integrate customer trust into everything we do, hold control owners accountable for enforcement, and assess, record, track, and report requirements health to senior leaders.

Key job responsibilities

You will work with builder, engineering, product, legal, PR, marketing, and other privacy and security teams across Amazon to:

• Draft, publish, and regularly update promises, policies, and standards that define our privacy positions
• Conduct change management to ensure awareness and implementation of privacy policy, promise, and standards requirements
• Interpret and apply privacy requirements to the Devices & Services business
• Administer a privacy policy exception management process
• Monitor privacy regulations, industry frameworks and best practices, and business developments to update or create privacy requirements as needed
• Contribute to the development of Devices & Services' overall privacy strategy and vision
• Raise business awareness of privacy requirements
• Assess and monitor the health and performance of privacy requirements implementation
  
  

A day in the life

This is an inherently cross-functional role where you will work directly with engineers, product managers, policy and compliance specialists, legal, PR, marketing, and other Amazon builders to help them identify the need for new or changed privacy policies and hold them accountable for implementing mechanisms to enforce them. You will use your investigative and/or analytical experience and demonstrate your excellent writing skills and experience driving alignment among diverse stakeholders. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment with fast delivery time, rapid iteration, and data-driven decision-making.

About The Team

This role is a part of Trust Fundamentals’ Privacy GRC team within TPA. Our GRC team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and are building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional enabled to take on increasingly complex tasks as their careers progress.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of privacy compliance experience
• Experience working directly with senior leaders
• Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining privacy policies
• Ability to translate complex requirements into simple and clear language
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of privacy compliance experience
• At least 1 International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Certification
• Experience working for a technology company
• Juris Doctor, Master’s degree or equivalent
  
  

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 Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $99,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $164,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2952831

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management, Management, and Product Management

• Industries

  Software Development

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