Senior Environmental Risk & Compliance Leader

Amazon Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Manager Risk within the Worldwide Environmental Assurance and Protection (EAP) team in California. The role leads cross-organizational alignment on a unified environmental compliance vision, develops multi-year plans, manages budgets, and ensures accountability across stakeholders to achieve scalable, zero-defect regulatory outcomes.

The ideal candidate combines deep regulatory expertise with strategic leadership, communicates complex requirements to executives, legal,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of risk management, audit, legal, compliance or related field work
• 7+ years of team management with 5+ direct reports
• Experience with program management spanning planning, execution and project delivery
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders
• Experience working with and managing third party vendors
• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, or related field
• Experience holding internal and external stakeholders accountable to program milestones through structured controllership and governance mechanisms

Responsibilities

• Establish cross-organizational alignment on a unified environmental compliance vision across all in-scope business units
• Own the strategic program roadmap including media-specific compliance programs
• Develop and govern multi-year operating plans and budgets
• Build and operate program controllership mechanisms to surface and mitigate compliance risk
• Communicate compliance strategy and risks to Director and VP-level audiences
• Partner with Legal, regulators, consultants, and tech teams to accelerate compliant solutions
• Define and govern KPI and compliance metric frameworks across units
• Lead talent management including hiring and development
• Oversee work by contractors and vendors with governance mechanisms
• Operate in an ambiguous regulatory environment to deliver scalable compliance outcomes
• Embed environmental objectives into day-to-day operations
• Travel up to 25-50%

Skills

Risk management

Team leadership

Program management

Stakeholder communication

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's in Environmental Sciences/Engineering

Master's in Environmental Sciences/Engineering

CHMM / REM certification

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Manager Risk within the Worldwide Environmental Assurance and Protection (EAP) team in California. The role leads cross-organizational alignment on a unified environmental compliance vision, develops multi-year plans, manages budgets, and ensures accountability across stakeholders to achieve scalable, zero-defect regulatory outcomes.

The ideal candidate combines deep regulatory expertise with strategic leadership, communicates complex requirements to executives, legal,