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Description

Millions of Selling Partners trust Amazon's marketplace to grow their businesses, and hundreds of millions of customers depend on us every day. Behind that trust is a network of systems, tools, and workflows designed to detect and resolve fraud and abuse at scale — and our team builds them.
We are looking for a Risk Manager - AI & Automation who will drive the intersection of risk intelligence and technology across TSI SCI and Res-Q. In this role, you will own defect elimination outcomes by leveraging AI-powered products and automation tools - identifying systemic abuse patterns, translating investigator insights into model improvement requirements, and measuring whether our technology investments actually reduce defect rates and reduce human investigation hours.
You will partner with engineering, science, and operations teams to launch and optimize ML-based detection systems and automation workflows for risk reduction. You'll own root cause and preventive action (RC/PA) for automation-driven defect elimination, analyze ML model outputs to identify misclassification patterns, and reduce seller defect rates and improve investigator efficiency.
This role offers the opportunity to shape how Amazon protects seller and customer trust by combining risk reduction expertise with technology execution that fundamentally improve how our organization operates.


Key job responsibilities
• Own end-to-end defect elimination outcomes for AI and automation initiatives by coordinating across engineering, science, operations, legal, and policy teams to deliver on time and at quality
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Risk Managers, Operations, Science, Legal, and Policy stakeholders to define product scope, prioritize features, and manage trade-offs - with defect elimination as the primary lens
• Build and manage program roadmaps for automation launches, tracking dependencies, identifying risks, and driving escalation management across multi-team initiatives
• Conduct defect pattern analysis using ML model outputs to identify systemic abuse trends, misclassification gaps, and opportunities for automation coverage expansion
• Partner with science teams on ML model performance reviews, understanding precision/recall trade-offs, data pipeline health, and the operational impact of model threshold decisions
• Translate investigator feedback into actionable model improvement requirements that serve as the voice of the risk operations team in technical prioritization discussions
• Own root cause / preventive action (RC/PA) for automation-related defects - when models miss or misclassify, drive the investigation into why and translate findings into technical requirements
• Own the RC/PA lifecycle for systemic defects surfaced through automation - when defect pattern analysis reveals recurring failure modes, document root cause findings, define preventive actions with measurable closure criteria, and track implementation through to validated defect elimination - ensuring accountability across science, engineering, and operations teams.
• Lead escalation triage for automation-impacted workflows as the first-line risk assessor when automated systems produce unexpected outcomes (false enforcements, missed abuse signals, or seller experience degradation), rapidly diagnosing whether the issue is model drift, data pipeline failure, or policy misalignment, and routing to the appropriate team with a clear severity assessment and remediation path.
• Conduct deep dives into escalation triage data, API integrations, and system gaps to identify launch blockers and ensure seamless product implementation
• Define and instrument success metrics to measure automation coverage, defect escape rates, and seller experience impact
• Prepare and present program updates, launch readiness reviews, and defect elimination impact assessments to senior leadership, quantifying the value of AI-driven risk reduction investments

A day in the life
You'll start your day reviewing defect dashboards and ML model performance metrics - checking precision/recall trends, flagging misclassification spikes, and identifying where automation coverage is falling short. You'll meet with investigators and Risk Managers to understand which defect patterns are slipping through models and translate those insights into improvement tickets for science teams.
You'll join system design reviews, refine technical specs for upcoming automation features, and drive sprint planning - prioritizing defect elimination impact. You'll analyze escalation triage data to spot systemic issues that technology should solve, and work with operations leaders to validate that deployed models are actually reducing investigation workload.
Your week includes stakeholder alignment meetings with Science, Legal, Operations and Policy, launch readiness reviews, RC/PA deep dives on automation defects, and presenting defect elimination progress at WBRs and MBRs.

About the team
The Res-Q team operates as the central command for abuse-related escalations, conducting investigations and driving systemic improvements across Amazon's global stores. Through our various intake channels, we handle the most complex and sensitive cases that require expert judgment and cross-functional coordination.