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Amazon is looking to hire over 2,000 people for technology and non-technology positions in India and this number is growing every day, a top executive from the company told BusinessLine .
Bengaluru accounts for the majority of the open job positions with 587 vacancies, followed by Hyderabad with 374 open positions, as listed on the Amazon Jobs website on Thursday evening.
The new hires will take up tech and non-tech roles across the company’s various divisions in the country including Amazon.com, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.in and its Devices division.
Some of the open job positions are: Software Development Engineer, Program Manager -Business Quality, Vendor Operations Associate, Manager – Risk Investigations, Quality Assurance Technician – Amazon Appstore, Business Analyst, Associate Site Merchandiser, Senior Program Manager – Amazon Pay, among many others.
Earlier in the year, Amazon laid off several hundred people at its Seattle headquarters and hundreds more at other global locations, however, the company continues to ramp up its India headcount. The company has a global workforce base of over 6,00,000 employees of which, India accounts for over 50,000 employees, making it the second largest workforce centre for Amazon after the US.
“We have over 2,000 open job positions of which, 50 per cent are for tech and 50 per cent are for non-tech roles and this number is growing as we speak,” Deepti Varma, HR Director, Amazon India told BusinessLine .
Steps up inclusion, diversity agenda
Pointing out that Amazon's global workforce demographics has 40 per cent female employees and 60 per cent male employees, Varma said, “At first we were focused on gender equality but now, we focus on the disabled, people from different regions, diverse backgrounds and ethnicity from around India because we need diversity in order to solve problems for a diverse customer base.” However, she did not comment if the same practice was followed in India.
Keeping up with its global practice of being an equal opportunity-affirmative action employer, Amazon is focusing on minorities, LGBTQ, women and the differently-abled from different regions, ethnicities and mindsets as part of its ‘Diversity & Inclusion agenda’. Amazon has stepped up this agenda with a slew of initiatives like ‘I want to Code’, ‘Amazon Campus Mentoring Series’, ‘Pinnacle’ and Amazon Women in Technology Conference to be held in Bengaluru next week.
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