Amazon has introduced plans to create 3,500 new company and tech jobs at its Canadian tech hubs in Vancouver and Toronto.
The net retailer says that the brand new roles will help present groups throughout Amazon, together with AWS, Alexa, Amazon promoting, retail and operations expertise.
“Immediately’s announcement by Amazon is nice information for Toronto and an indication of continued confidence in our metropolis and our tech sector,” stated Toronto Mayor John Tory in a press release.
The roles will embrace software program growth engineers, person expertise designers, speech scientists working to make Alexa smarter, cloud computing options architects, gross sales and advertising and marketing executives and extra.
“The truth that Amazon is doubling-down on our native financial system highlights the power of our tech sector and reveals that Vancouver is the place corporations need to set up themselves and develop,” stated Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart, within the press launch.
Amazon says that 3,000 of the brand new jobs will likely be in Vancouver, and 500 of them will likely be in Toronto.
Supply: Amazon Canada
