Security Assurance Lead — Compliance & Privacy (Flexible Hours)

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 131,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

RSUs

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an AWS Assurance Specialist for Compliance, Assurance, Privacy, & Security (CAPS). This role leads domain assurance campaigns, manages regulator interactions, and drives improvements across security assurance to support worldwide regulatory expectations.

You will coordinate evidence collection, analyze obligations, and communicate with internal teams and external regulators to close actions and strengthen AWS services' compliance posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or a related discipline, or equivalent technology experience.
• 5+ years of HR, privacy, legal, compliance or risk management experience.
• 7+ years of program management, project management or product management experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Domain Assurance delivery including planning, fieldwork, evidence collection, and reporting phases.
• Develop and execute evidence collection strategies across AWS service teams, coordinating with builder teams to source, classify, and deliver artifacts that satisfy regulatory and assessor requirements within established timelines.
• Analyze emerging and existing regulatory obligations to determine applicability, service team impact, and compliance posture for AWS services across multiple jurisdictions.
• Serve as a point of contact for external regulators during examinations, managing assessor request lists (ARLs), responding to follow-up inquiries, and driving requests to closure.
• Coordinate with internal AWS teams to resolve request ambiguities, and ensure consistent regulatory messaging across engagements.
• Identify compliance gaps, data quality discrepancies, and delivery risks across active engagements; elevate issues with clear root cause analysis and recommended remediation actions to senior leadership.
• Develop and maintain subject matter expertise in one or more regulatory jurisdictions or frameworks.

Skills

HR & privacy experience

Program management

Compliance / risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an AWS Assurance Specialist for Compliance, Assurance, Privacy, & Security (CAPS). This role leads domain assurance campaigns, manages regulator interactions, and drives improvements across security assurance to support worldwide regulatory expectations.

You will coordinate evidence collection, analyze obligations, and communicate with internal teams and external regulators to close actions and strengthen AWS services' compliance posture.