Senior Privacy Specialist, Amazon Privacy

Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Privacy Specialist to join the Regulation Technology and Assurance (RTA) team within Amazons central Privacy organization. RTA own the products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring compliance with high-impact Privacy regulations across Amazon services worldwide.

The Privacy Specialist will own defining the control requirements prioritization and related policy for one or more core compliance programs. This will require driving high judgment debates and decision making across senior business technology legal and public policy leaders.

Key job responsibilities
Define the compliance bar for one or more Privacy compliance programs.
Document existing technical and non-technical controls and provide requirements to support mature compliance programs and governance.
Partner with Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and Technical Product Managers (PMTs) to produce viable technical solutions to Amazon-scale compliance challenges.
Guide leadership in balancing risk management concerns and risk mitigations against customer experience while contributing to product roadmaps.
Drive process improvement and contribute to control implementation projects in coordination with other teams.
Apply a working knowledge of global data privacy to articulate customer/control impact.
Follow the developments of relevant privacy laws customer expectations and regulatory guidance to identify and communicate key trends and to protect customer trust.

About the team
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- Experience in risk management methodologies and process improvement initiatives
- Experience solving complex problems quantitatively and develop actionable data-driven business recommendations
- Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units
- 5 years of experience in privacy regulatory or risk and compliance roles.
- Working knowledge of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the EU ePrivacy Directive EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) and EU Digital Services Act (DSA) US State Privacy law and/or other relevant legislation.
- Experience operationalizing and/or managing global regulatory requirements
- Record of delivery of regulatory-driven process improvement projects with technology processes and/or major tech companies.

- Relevant Privacy or compliance certifications (e.g. CIPP/E CIPP/US etc).
- Experience evaluating the design and effectiveness of controls.
- Experience in working directly with auditors for compliance assessments.
- Bachelors degree preferred.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 149300.00 - 201400.00 USD annually
USA TX Austin - 135700.00 - 183100.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 135700.00 - 183100.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 135700.00 - 183100.00 USD annually