Senior Risk Manager - Inventory Trust, Inventory Evaluation

Amazon.com Inc

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Consumer Branding, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Inventory Management, Leadership, Legal, Legal Support Skills, Metrics, Network Security, Process Development, Product Flow, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Reporting Dashboards, Risk, Risk Management, Sales, Sales Analysis, Supply Chain, Time Management, Workflow Analysis
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
19 days ago

Every day, millions of products flow through Amazon"s fulfillment network - and not all of them belong there. The Inventory Trust team stands at the front-line of protecting customers, brands, and Amazon"s reputation by identifying and eliminating fraudulent, counterfeit, and non-compliant inventory before it reaches a customer"s doorstep.

We are seeking a bold, data-driven Sr. Risk Manager to lead the programmatic clearance of WW bad actor and bad inventory a scale. You will be building and scaling the mechanisms that detect, evaluate, and remove millions of risky units across global marketplaces, directly impacting the trustworthiness of Amazon"s supply chain.

What makes this role unique:

Scale & Impact: You"ll drive disposition decisions on millions of units, manage escalation pathways involving legal holds and regulatory compliance, and set thresholds that determine how quickly Amazon neutralizes the impact of bad actors.

Ambiguity & Innovation: The problems you"ll solve are large and complex. You"ll design new processes, define clearance strategies, and build cross-functional mechanisms that didn"t exist before.

Visibility: You"ll communicate directly with senior leadership, influence enforcement policy through data, and partner with Legal, Compliance, Operations, and Engineering teams across multiple organizations.

This role focuses on the programmatic and operational execution of inventory clearance - identifying bad actors, driving inventory through evaluation and disposition workflows, and scaling mechanisms to stay ahead of evolving threats.

If you thrive in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments and want to protect customers at a scale - we want to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities

Lead end-to-end programmatic clearance of bad actor and risky inventory across global marketplaces, driving disposition decisions on millions of units to protect customers and Amazon"s fulfillment network

Design and scale inventory evaluation mechanisms - including disposal thresholds, escalation workflows, and clearance strategies - to stay ahead of evolving fraud patterns and bad actor tactics

Own cross-functional coordination with Legal, Compliance, Enforcement, and Operations teams to resolve complex inventory holds (e.g., regulatory freezes, legal seizures, non-responsive blocked accounts)

Develop, implement, and govern key program metrics that provide visibility into clearance velocity, dwell time reduction, and bad actor inventory risk - using data to influence business decisions and drive accountability

Build and manage escalation pathways for aged and high-value inventory, partnering with senior leadership to unblock stalled cases and accelerate resolution

Identify process gaps and drive operational innovation - creating new mechanisms where playbooks don"t exist and scaling solutions that reduce manual intervention over time

Communicate program status, risks, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership through crisp written narratives and business reviews

Partner with adjacent teams to share intelligence, align enforcement actions, and prevent bad actors from exploiting inventory gaps across programs

A day in the life

You"ll start your morning reviewing inventory clearance dashboards - tracking dwell times, disposition progress, and emerging bad actor patterns across global marketplaces. By mid-morning, you"re leading a cross-functional sync with Legal, Enforcement, and Operations to unblock aged inventory cases involving regulatory holds or non-responsive sellers. After lunch, you"re deep in data - analyzing seller overlap with enforcement lists, validating counterfeit signals, and refining disposal thresholds. You"ll close the day drafting an escalation narrative for senior leadership or designing a new mechanism to streamline what was previously a manual clearance workflow.

About the team

The Inventory Evaluation team sits within Inventory Trust and is responsible for protecting Amazon"s fulfillment network from fraudulent, counterfeit, and non-compliant inventory. We evaluate and clear millions of units annually - ensuring bad actor inventory never reaches customers while treating legitimate sellers fairly. Our team operates at the intersection of enforcement, compliance partnering with teams across Amazon. We value ownership, bias for action, and a willingness to dive deep into ambiguous problems. We"re a small team with outsized impact - and we"re growing.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

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COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles