Risk Manager, RISC Program

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Regulatory Risk Manager to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will be at the forefront of ensuring compliance and safety, working closely with legal and business stakeholders. You will manage inquiries from regulators, lead strategic remediation efforts, and analyze data to identify risk indicators. This position offers the opportunity to influence compliance strategies and engage with diverse teams across a complex international organization. If you are passionate about compliance and risk management, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience required.
• Experience leading compliance programs and handling confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate responses to inquiries from regulators and law enforcement.
• Analyze data to identify risk indicators and manage escalations.
• Develop reports on policy gaps for senior executives.

Skills

Program Management

Data Analysis

Compliance Programs

Risk Management

Communication Skills

Process Improvement

Incident Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Job ID: 2750185 | Amazon.com Services LLC

The Regulatory Intelligence, Safety and Compliance (RISC) team's charter is to protect Amazon customers from products that are illegal, illegally marketed, unsafe, or otherwise prohibited by Amazon policies. RISC Risk Manager will be a part of the Business and Legal Support (BLS) team which provides strategic support for high-priority requests from legal partners, regulators, law enforcement, and business. In this role the PM will drive short-term solutions for immediate issues, and find long-term solutions to address the root cause. They will bring together legal, technical, and business stakeholders to help drive engagements with key regulators and business partners.

Key job responsibilities

1. Responsible for coordinating cross-functional responses to inquiries from regulators, law enforcement, and internal teams regarding restricted products.
2. Define, develop, and manage mechanisms to facilitate rapid response to inquiries and escalations.
3. Regularly assess and lead strategic remediations related to deficiencies identified in inquiries.
4. Perform analysis of data from a variety of sources to identify possible risk indicators.
5. Perform incident triage, to include determining scope, urgency, and potential impact, identifying the specific vulnerability, and making recommendations that enable expeditious remediation. Perform escalation trend analysis and reporting.
6. Coordinate with Legal teams to support pro-active stakeholder engagement with timely data and analysis.
7. Analyzing escalations from various sources within Amazon to determine possible root causes and identifying preventative actions.
8. Work with a wide range of cross-functional teams to communicate Amazon's compliance strategies to regulators and other external stakeholders.
9. Communicate regularly with leadership and ensure consistent reporting against regulatory and business commitments.
10. Develop and present deep-dive documents and reports on policy and process gaps to senior executives.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Experience handling confidential information.
• Previous experience leading compliance programs and/or time-sensitive regulatory engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to source and analyze data to drive business reporting.
• Experience delivering initiatives from conception through completion.
• Experience leading process management and process improvement initiatives.
• Proven ability to define strategies in order to solve ambiguous problems.
• Experience preparing reports identifying findings and providing recommended remediation strategies and solutions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience.
• Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials.
• Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to clearly communicate complex and technical subject matter to a diverse group of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience setting direction and delivering detail-oriented results in environments with frequently shifting priorities.
• Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills are critical to success in this position.
• Experience with large scale e-commerce platforms including systems involving complex business logic.
• Experience in operations, investigations, risk management, incident or crisis management, or handling escalations.
• Experience working in law, compliance, regulatory or a related field.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams within a complex international organization.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.