Amazon · 1 month ago
Industry Specialist - Risk, Special Projects & Investigations
Tempe, Arizona, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$92K/yr - $196K/yr
3+ years expAmazon.com Services LLC is looking for an experienced industry specialist in risk, fraud, compliance, or cyber investigations to join their Special Projects & Investigations team. This role involves managing high-impact projects and utilizing advanced data analytics to identify and mitigate risks across Amazon's business segments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Complete risk analyses and manipulate data in complex data sets (SQL, Python, R etc.)
Use high-level judgment to inform our most complex enforcement decisions
Identify gaps and risks in Amazon's current mechanisms and policies and recommend solutions to product/policy owning teams
Use data and/or technical skills to discover new ways to scale deep dive signals resulting in the identification of many bad actors and sizing the issue
Owning the complete life cycle of one or more complex problems - from identification through scaling the solutions
Break problems into manageable pieces, ruthlessly prioritizing, and delivering results in an ambiguous environment
Conduct large scale deep dives to derive insights about tactics used to conduct abuse on our stores, identifying gaps and risk in Amazon's current mechanisms, systems, and policies
Write documents for partner teams and executives that identify problems, propose technical solutions, and drive alignment among stakeholders
Own partnerships with stakeholder teams and guide appropriate trade-offs, clearly communicate goals, roles and responsibilities
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or postgraduate degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Data Science/Analytics, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or related discipline
3+ years of relevant industry experience in risk or fraud investigations, regulatory compliance, ecommerce, analytics, or security
Proficient with deriving insights from big data using SQL & experience manipulating/processing data with Python
Proven ability to deliver complex projects across multiple teams
Preferred
Experience working in e-commerce
Experience working in relevant industries such as law, customer service, investigations, risk, compliance or project management
Experience managing confidential and sensitive employee information and adherence to strict confidentiality standards
Experience with AWS services like Redshift, Neptune or Sagemaker
Masters degree in or practical experience with data science or machine learning
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate security and business risk to a broad range of technical and non-technical audiences
Exceptional ownership and bias for action: willing to move quickly and decisively
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Medical
Financial
Other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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