Principal Risk Manager, Privacy, WW SPS Tech PMO
Amazon
Principal Risk ManagerAmazon's Seller Privacy Program is seeking a Principal Risk Manager to lead centralized privacy strategy and compliance across Worldwide Selling Partner Services (SPS). In this role, you will serve as the single-threaded owner of Seller privacy compliance spanning hundreds of applications across 5
• VP organizations, driving long-term strategy and near-term execution to protect Sellers' data rights under GDPR, CCPA, and emerging global regulations.
You will operate at the intersection of regulatory risk, technical systems, and business priorities defining the privacy roadmap, resolving organizational ambiguity, and influencing cross-VP decision-making without direct authority. This is a high-judgment, high-impact role where the business problem, solution, and risk strategy are often undefined, and you will be expected to create clarity, build mechanisms, and drive results at scale.
You will write strategic documents for VP audiences, lead escalations up to VP level, and represent Sellers in Amazon-wide privacy decisions.
If you thrive in ambiguity, can influence at the highest levels, and want to protect Sellers' data rights we want to talk to you.
Key job responsibilities include:
Own SPS Privacy strategy, priorities, mechanisms, and execution across all Seller data processing activities worldwide
Drive compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and emerging privacy regulations across hundreds of SPS applications
Influence 5
• VP organizations to prioritize privacy investments, navigating tension between Seller experience, legal requirements, and competing business priorities
Resolve organizational ambiguity and ownership gaps requiring Director/VP alignment across multiple technical and business teams
Lead strategic escalations to VP/SVP leadership with high-quality written documents informing risk exposure and compliance posture
Define and own annual privacy goals, including Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR), Account Closure and Data Deletion (ACDDR), and automation coverage targets
Partner with Amazon Privacy, Legal, and Privacy Bar Raisers to define obligations and influence tooling roadmaps
Monitor emerging regulatory enforcement actions and proactively de-risk the business
Make high-judgment trade-offs between compliance deadlines, business opportunity, and resource constraints in a historically under-invested domain
A day in the life might start your day checking goal progress across your privacy portfolio, then shift to authoring a VP-level status update on compliance posture. Mid-morning, you're drafting a cycle planning document that frames trade-offs between a compliance deadline and competing business goals, or writing an escalation document to unblock a critical dependency. After lunch, you're influencing cross-functional stakeholders Engineering, Legal, Product to achieve delivery commitments and keep priorities on track. By end of day, you're reporting progress to VP audiences, reviewing communications for accuracy and strategic framing, and identifying what needs to escalate versus what you can solve through your network. No two days are alike, and the problems are rarely pre-defined.
The SPS Tech PMO's Privacy Program drives centralized, scalable privacy strategy for Amazon's Selling Partner Services. We partner with Amazon Privacy, Legal, and engineering teams across the company to ensure Seller data rights are met, risks are mitigated, and compliance is maintained across a complex landscape of hundreds of applications. Our team operates with a bias for action, high ownership, and a belief that privacy is a fundamental priority for the business. We value clear thinkers who can turn ambiguity into mechanisms and influence into outcomes.
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