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Salary- 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience handling confidential information
You must have strong prior work experience in a professional setting, a positive attitude, and strong organizational skills. The ability to effectively communicate is essential, both verbally and in writing. The role will require that you be self-motivated to learn the operations and will involve both independent and team work in a fast-paced environment that is constantly changing.
Key job responsibilities
- Monitoring product regulatory developments in the US and Canada
- Partnering with regulators and responding to their inquiries about products sold in Amazon's online store
- Working with business and operational teams to implement compliance controls
- Setting compliance strategies for long-term initiatives
- Engaging with selling partners and helping them improve their product compliance
As a Compliance Specialist on the RISC Legal team, you will be responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and implementing product regulatory compliance controls that impact the products sold in Amazon's online stores in the US and Canada. It's a high judgment position that requires nimbleness and insistence upon very high standards. You will engage with several internal and external stakeholders to drive initiatives to completion. Compliance Specialists are responsible for specific compliance categories that are either product-specific or regulation-specific (i.e., requirements that span multiple categories).
About the team
RISC Legal's mission is to maximize customer trust and lawful product selection while minimizing unlawful selection, product regulatory risk to Amazon, and negative value actions on customer trust. Our vision is to run a compliance program where customers have no concerns that the products they buy are safe, legitimate, and compliant with the laws that impact them. We help selling partners solve their compliance challenges in a low friction, low cost manner. We want regulators to trust and appreciate Amazon's product compliance engagement model and program.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Arlington, VA, USA | New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
- 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 with SQL and Excel
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $59,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $142,800/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.
