Senior Program Manager, Intellectual Property Protection

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Project/Program/Product Management--Non-Tech

Senior Program Manager to drive Amazon's IP discovery and enablement systems, focusing on brand and IP discovery, IP enablement knowledge infrastructure, and ASIN discovery. The role involves partnering with applied scientists on risk scoring models and agentic AI collection systems, managing IP knowledge completeness, and driving prioritization strategies. The goal is to build the foundational infrastructure for downstream IP protection systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive IP enablement programs that build and maintain machine-readable IP knowledge at scale: managing collection pipelines (automated agentic AI, patent office APIs, structured human research), tracking IP object completeness across text, logo, copyright, and design patent types, and closing the coverage gaps that account for the majority of downstream detection failures.
  2. Own brand risk scoring and prioritization programs that identify which brands need protection before infringement occurs, managing risk models processing millions of brands across all marketplaces and routing high-priority IP gaps to collection treatments based on residual risk.
  3. Drive ASIN discovery pipeline programs that continuously scan billions of catalog listings through multiple trigger types, managing the filtering, de-duplication, and tiered prioritization systems that determine which ASINs flow to Detection for evaluation.
  4. Conduct root cause analysis on protection gaps — classifying defects into collection problems, policy gaps, model misses, and anchor failures — and translate findings into systematic program improvements with measurable targets tied to top-line NOI reduction goals.
  5. Present strategic recommendations to Directors and VPs on discovery and enablement system performance, establishing metrics that frame IP knowledge completeness as infrastructure health (not just enrollment counts), and driving cross-team alignment on the formal handoff contract with Detection.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of program or project management experience
  • Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
  • Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
  • Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams

Nice to have

  • Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
  • Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability
  • Knowledge of process improvement and quality measures, copyright and brand protection
  • Experience in project or program management

What the JD emphasized

  • agentic AI collection systems
  • risk scoring models
  • IP knowledge completeness
  • prioritization strategies
  • machine-readable IP knowledge
  • automated agentic AI
  • risk models
  • ASIN discovery pipeline programs
  • filtering, de-duplication, and tiered prioritization systems
  • root cause analysis
  • systematic program improvements
  • discovery and enablement system performance
  • IP knowledge completeness as infrastructure health

Other signals

  • partner with applied scientists on risk scoring models and agentic AI collection systems
  • manage IP knowledge completeness programs across trademark, copyright, and design patent categories
  • drive prioritization strategies that route resources to the highest-risk gaps
  • coordinate the formal handoff contract between Discovery and Detection
  • build the infrastructure that every downstream IPP system depends on