Risk Manager I, Relay Product Excellence

Amazon
San Francisco, US
On-site

Job Description

As a Risk Manager of the Driver Identity Verification team, you will be responsible for providing the overall management for a team of employees and direct leadership to the investigation team, overseeing and developing employee performance and process improvement activities. This team conducts risk reviews on drivers with investigatory resources and tools to validate identity. The group has responsibility for taking appropriate actions on or accounts to protect Amazon from risk of account takeover and to prevent /mitigate fraud. The team aims and works towards zero fraud, zero account takeovers, zero false positives, and zero scams of any kind. The team seeks the best possible trade-off between customer experience and risk related losses, and when they have to make difficult choices, they will err towards the customer experience.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining SOP’s, implementing, managing and reporting through Metrics, Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators through Strategic Leadership and Vision, Daily Operational Management and Continuous Process improvements. You will be responsible for building operational cadences and review mechanisms to enable the team to achieve performance standards. You will have a strong voice in the forecasting accuracy of investigations, the necessary staffing requirements to achieve SLAs, and in ensuring all coaching, training needs are met. You will be a functional Operations owner, who works closely with the global program owners to design and deploy business strategies for enhanced Customer experience, including SLAs, First Contact Resolution, feedback on policies and decision quality and overall tools enhancements.

Key job responsibilities Manage a team of investigators Provide data analysis & conduct investigations (as needed) Pull data from numerous databases (using Excel, Access, SQL and/or other data management systems) and perform ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed Take appropriate action to identify and help minimize the risk posed by fraud or abuse patterns and trends Identify and eliminate root causes of defects to drive efficiency in Amazon’s transportation operations Understand the business impact of the trends and make decisions that make sense based on available data Systematically raise problems or variance in the information and data to the relevant owners and teams Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs, while measuring and identifying activities performed Write and verbal communication experience, outline weekly findings and variances to goals, present findings in a review forum Demonstrate solid business judgment, effectively communicate team goals, and drive a fast‑paced organization to deliver results with a focused and pragmatic approach Achieve operational excellence and drive process improvements Develop employees and their skill sets to expand the team capabilities Manage and execute defined metrics and quality, maintain clear metrics on investigation handling volumes, performance, and decision quality Possess superior analytical abilities and judgment. Use quantitative and qualitative data to prioritize and influence, show creativity, experimentation and innovation, drive projects with urgency Manager’s success measured by ability to drive operational efficiencies and improve internal/external customer experience Person should be willing to work in rotational shifts About the team

It’s no secret that Amazon relies on its technology to deliver millions of packages every day to its customers – on time, with low cost. The Middle Mile Transportation Technology organization builds complex software solutions that work across our vendors, warehouses and carriers to optimize both time & cost of getting the packages delivered. Our services handle thousands of requests per second, make business decisions impacting billions of dollars a year, integrate with a network of small and large carriers, owner operators and drivers worldwide, manage business rules for millions of unique products, and improve ordering and delivery experience for millions of online shoppers. This remains a fast‑growing business; with rapid expansion into new geographies, innovations in supply chain, unique delivery models for products ranging from Amazon Fresh groceries, ultra‑fast Prime Now deliveries of big‑screen TVs, increasingly complex transportation network, and growing number of shipments worldwide we see a brand new opportunity to fundamentally change how people get the stuff they need and make an impact by cutting billions of dollars of transportation costs from the ecosystem. Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal transportation solution on the planet, using our technology and engineering as our biggest advantage. We aim to leverage upcoming technologies in big data, machine learning, optimization techniques, and operate high‑volume, low‑latency, and high‑availability services.

Basic

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

ExcelAccessSqlData management systemsPythonC++JavaLinear algebraProbability

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

mid

Posted

4/14/2026

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