Compliance Specialist, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper Compliance Specialist

Project Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement : Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Kuiper's Global Trade & Compliance team is seeking an experienced risk and compliance professional to join our cross-functional collective of trade and compliance experts. We develop compliance frameworks, standardize technical compliance controls, and develop continuous compliance monitoring. We focus on compliance regulations, policies and other obligations impacting Kuiper in the global geographies where Kuiper operates.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise to manage compliance workflow mechanisms
• Manage workflow processes to maintain program compliance
• Perform regular audits for risk assessment and innovate audit control mechanisms
• Maintain Contingent Workforce Standard Operating Procedures, workflows and simplify processes
• Manage metrics for reporting to meet business goals and compliance requirements
• Analyze and audit compliance transactions
• Effectively lead cross-functional projects, with a focus on efficiency and scalability
• Proven analytical capabilities; experience with large amounts of data and in developing audit reports, metrics, and reporting mechanisms
• Ability to work in an ambiguous environment and drive results
• Experience writing policy, and adapting requirements to technical and business needs
• Experience working in a global, large-scale, complex, and fast-paced environment
• Problem solver, able to troubleshoot issues independently or escalate when necessary; sense of accountability and sound professional judgment
• Highly independent and organized

A Day In The Life

As a Kuiper Compliance Specialist, the candidate will be an individual contributor accountable for optimizing cross-team processes that improve compliance mechanisms and manage cross-functional processes. They will be responsible for consulting with key stakeholders to drive alignment at both the tactical and strategic level. The role involves working closely with Legal, Tax, Procurement, Supply Chain, Professional & Temp Hiring teams, and a variety of external Amazon partners to ensure compliance and risk management at scale.

About The Team

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.