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Posted date: Feb 07, 2025
Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $291,800
Range: $233,600 - $350,000
Description
Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization’s mission is to build world-class, general-purpose intelligence services that benefit every Amazon business and humanity. In AGI security, we make sure our AGI services and all applications that rely on them earn and keep our customers’ trust. We partner with scientists, AGI builders, and teams across Amazon to ensure our models and GenAI applications are built securely by default.As the head of AGI Security, you’ll be responsible for leading and rapidly growing a team that protects Amazon’s customers using all of our generative AI experiences — from simple chatbots to generative assistants to custom business experiences. The rapid pace of change in artificial intelligence from both a product and a threat perspective requires our security team to continually Invent and Simplify and Dive Deep. Our customers expect Amazon’s AI-powered experiences to protect their information at the highest standard, and we need a Customer-Obsessed leader who can help all of our teams deliver that expectation efficiently and quickly. This team will play a significant role in Amazon’s overall delivery of AI experiences and is an invigorating challenge for a leader with deep curiosity who loves to innovate.
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Director of AGI Security reporting to the Vice President and CISO of Amazon’s specialized businesses including Devices & Services, Games, Media, and Ads.. This role will be responsible for all information security related to our foundational AGI teams, along with security tooling and guidance for Amazon’s many GenAI builders. Key responsibilities will include enhancing the security and efficiency of our data science and model-build tooling and process, pre-launch security establishment and review, monitoring, security detection and response, and external security assurance.
Most importantly, you’ll continue growing and evolving a diverse, passionate, high performing team charged with helping to protect customer trust in Amazon. We operate on a global scale at speed and demand high standards, so passion and discipline around security and high-quality delivery is essential.
A day in the life
f you’re passionate about both AI and security, this position will provide you with a fascinating opportunity to ensure AI products are shipped securely at scale. We guarantee that you will learn a ton, work with motivated and world-class talent across disciplines within both AI and digital security, have fun, and make a positive impact on a wide variety of customer experiences. You are an effective communicator, have demonstrated the ability to earn the trust of stakeholders across business and security, are data-driven, and have experience managing complex business and technical challenges. You are customer obsessed and can navigate requirements from different business teams.
About the team
As Director of AGI Security, you will be a part of the larger technical and product leadership community at Amazon. This community is the backbone of the company, plays a critical role in the broad business planning, and you will be working closely with senior executives to develop fast-moving business targets and resource requirements. You will use your influence on AGI’s long-term technical and business strategy, helps us hire talented team of scientists, software developers, and security engineers, and ultimately enable us to deliver innovative new solutions rapidly. Your product portfolio will include tools both for AGI’s scientists and developers, and the general builders across Amazon using models through Bedrock or other frameworks. This rapidly-growing team works backwards from all of those builders to identify and build necessary security resources.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree10+ years people management experience building strong teams of 100+ people and managing managers.
A passion for people management and mentorship.
Extended Qualifications
Master’s DegreeSuccessful candidates will be an excellent communicator, highly motivated, effective in globally distributed teams, and focused on the development of your team.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $233,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $350,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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