June 2, 2025

Senior Risk Manager, RISC - Cross Border Compliance

Senior • On-site

$109,000 - $185,000/yr

Seattle, WA , +2

DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about designing and implementing solutions to complex, ambiguous problems? Do you want to expand your scope of impact and influence strategic decision-making? Are you seeking a new, exciting challenge where you can use your ingenuity to invent and innovate? If so, we're looking for talented individuals like you to join our team.

Our team focuses on mitigating risks and enabling selection for business models and programs that aim to create selection parity for all Amazon customers worldwide and optimize the cross-border shopping experience. We achieve this by:
Creating broad, reusable product-based classifications that are agnostic to business models or programs for partners to enforce upstream.
Delivering value to our customers by: a) Helping them navigate compliance environments b) Designing, implementing, and maintaining necessary compliance controls for their business models and programs at the lowest cost c) Supporting downstream systems, programs, and compliance enforcers affected by our controls while minimizing impacts on their charters.

This role requires a strategic mindset, strong leadership skills, and the ability to navigate complex regulatory environments while driving innovation and efficiency in cross-border operations.

Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Risk Manager, you will lead cross-border initiatives and compliance efforts, working closely with diverse teams across the organization. Your key responsibilities include:

•Collaborating with corporate counsel, legal teams, business units, selling partner experience and support teams, operational excellence, product teams, and BI and data science/engineering teams to deliver new launches and support ongoing projects.

•Influencing behavior, planning projects, and working cross-functionally with global stakeholders to operationalize and implement regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance with all corporate compliance program expectations and applicable international, domestic, and local laws.

•Conducting risk assessments related to existing processes and new product assortments, recommending appropriate risk mitigation measures, including process changes and training considerations.

•Leading the launch of new cross-border initiatives by incorporating multiple workstreams and programs across organizations, building processes, mental models, and tenets to achieve successful implementation at scale.

•Acting as the program lead, working with Operations, Compliance and Safety programs, Product and Engineering teams, and Worldwide Business and Legal teams to define requirements, design workflows, and implement solutions.

•Focusing on reducing cost to serve while increasing controls coverage and quality for cross-border businesses, improving systems supporting the Cross Border Compliance team.

About the team
Cross Border Compliance (CBC), part of the Regulatory Intelligence, Safety, and Compliance (RISC) organization, has a mission to enable selling partners to list once and sell globally across borders while protecting customers from unsafe, illegal, illegally marketed, controversial, or policy-violating products.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
- Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
- 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 $109,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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.

Amazon

Amazon.com, Inc. founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in the cozy confines of his Seattle garage, Amazon.com, Inc. quickly evolved from a humble online bookstore to a colossal e-commerce powerhouse. Today, it offers an extensive range of products from DVDs and electronics to furniture and groceries. With a global footprint that spans continents—from Canada and the UK to Japan and Brazil—Amazon's presence is truly international. The company has not only diversified into various domains, including acquiring Twitch in 2014 and venturing into the film industry in 2015, but also introduced initiatives like the brand registry program to safeguard intellectual property. Despite the hurdles of labor relations and competitive practices, Amazon remains a dominant force in the global e-commerce landscape.