Senior Privacy & Regulatory Specialist, Amazon Privacy

An opportunity to join a growing Privacy & Regulatory team, this role will play a critical role as we continue to innovate and grow our ads business. Amazon Privacy is seeking a Privacy & Regulatory Specialist to support key, global regulatory compliance initiatives. Candidates should have a broad understanding of privacy, consumer protection and online services regulation and an ability to focus on consumer sentiment and customer experience.,

• Act as the regulatory owner/expert for multiple Amazon businesses, defining our compliance strategy across privacy (e.g. GDPR, ePrivacy), consumer protection and online services (e.g. Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act).
• Dive deep into our products and experiences to develop an in-depth understanding of how they work and current privacy and regulatory controls, and articulate compliance implications to stakeholder teams.
• Draft relevant policies and controls that support mature compliance programs and governance.
• Guide leadership in balancing risk management concerns and risk mitigations against customer experience while contributing to product roadmaps.
• Drive process improvement and control implementation projects in coordination with other teams.
• Evaluate known issues and identifying root causes through end-to-end process evaluations.
• Applying a working knowledge of global data privacy, consumer protection and online services regulations and policies to articulate customer/control impact and drive alignment across teams.
• Follow the developments of relevant privacy, consumer protection and online services laws, customer expectations, and regulatory guidance to identify and communicate key trends and to protect customer trust.
• Raising the bar on the customer experience for privacy, consumer-protection and online services related regulation.
A day in the life In this role, focused on and driving and enhancing our privacy and regulatory program, you will partner with stakeholders across Amazon, acting as a thought leader for in-scope regulations and related compliance programs who conceives and advocates for our overall compliance strategy. You will work independently with the ability to prioritize workloads in a fast-paced environment while supporting multiple, simultaneous programs. About the team Part of Amazon Ads Customer Trust, the Ads Privacy & Regulatory team consists of dedicated privacy and regulatory specialists with expertise in digital advertising. The team is focused on raising the privacy and regulatory compliance bar on our advertising products and services, driving a superior customer experience, and ensuring we protect customer trust. About the team Our team drives the compliance strategy, implementation and program mechanisms required for Amazon to comply with obligations that protect customer personal or sensitive data, and span most or all of the company.


• 7+ years of experience in privacy, regulatory, or risk and compliance roles.
• Demonstrable ability to communicate and manage relationships with stakeholders to drive results
• Experience operationalizing and/or managing global regulatory requirements
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of risk management methods and industry best practices.
• Record of delivery of regulatory-driven process improvement projects with technology processes and/or major tech companies.
• Ability to understand complex business processes and technologies.
• Analytical decision making with a demonstrated ability problem solve, make decisions in complex situations and drive issues to completion.
• Proven history of having worked effectively across cross-functional teams and business functions to drive change.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in data privacy or regulatory compliance in a highly technical environment
• 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
• 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 opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.